The phrase Man bites dog and the related phrase Dog bites man are used to describe a phenomenon in journalism, in which an unusual, infrequent event is more likely to be reported as news than an ordinary, everyday occurrence. This can be explained by the fact that the news media generally consider an event more newsworthy if there is something unusual about it. On the other hand, a situation which is commonplace is unlikely to be taken as newsworthy. The result is that news items carrying titles such as “Man Bites Dog” occur more often than those such as “Dog Bites Man,” making it seem as though the former event is more common compared to the latter than it actually is.

Similar phrases related to this analogy include, You never read about a plane that did not crash, or You don’t hear about the laws that a politician did not break.

The phrase comes from a quote attributed to New York Sun editor John B. Bogart: “When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.”Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 16th edition, ed. Justin Kaplan (Boston, London, and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1992), p. 554.

A slightly different meaning is sometimes applied to reports of political conflicts that are perceived as being one-sided or biased. In such cases, the news agency accused of the bias treats the party it ostensibly favors as the “Dog” in the analogy, and the party it ostensibly disfavors as the “Man.” The result of this is that it may devote more time or space to reports of attacks carried out against the side it favors to deliberately portray them in a more sympathetic light.

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Vanguard Party, originally known as the Vanguard Nationalist and Socialist Party, a socialist political party in the Bahamas. The party was founded in 1971 by a group belonging to the youth organization of Progressive Liberal Party. The party was inspired by the Black Panther Party in the United States.

The Vanguard Party has failed to reach electoral success. In 1977 the party had put up five candidates, but could only muster 55 votes. In 1979 the party contested 18 seats, and won 173 votes. In the period 1979-1985 John T. McCartney was the party president. The party has close relations to the Communist Party of Cuba.

The party publication is The Vanguard.

Little Christmas, or Nollaig Bheag in the Irish language, is one of the traditional names in Ireland for January 6, more commonly known in the rest of the world as the Epiphany. It is so called because it was, until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, the day on which Christmas Day was celebrated. It is the traditional end of the Christmas season and the last day of the Christmas holidays for both Primary and Secondary schools.

The name Little Christmas is also found in Slovenian (mali božič).

It is also known as Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas), so called because of the tradition (still very strong in Cork, though only just surviving in the rest of the country) of Irish men taking on all the household duties on that day and giving their spouses a day off. Most women will either hold parties or go out to celebrate the day with their friends, sisters, mothers, aunts etc. Bars and restaurants have a near 100% female clientele on this night. Children often buy presents for their mothers and grandmothers and it closely resembles Mother’s Day in this respect.

A Christmas Gift of Love was an album released in 2002 by singer and songwriter Barry Manilow. As Manilow’s second compilation of Christmas songs, the album did quite well, and went Gold. Oddly enough, the album was done with Columbia Records instead of his usual label of Concord Records. However, as part of the agreement with Concord, the logo of both labels appear on this release.

Track listing

1. “Winter Wonderland” - 1:44
2. “Happy Holiday/White Christmas” - 2:45
3. “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” - 1:53
4. “Home for the Holidays” - 2:27
5. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” - 3:20
   
6. “My Favorite Things” - 2:26
7. “The Christmas Waltz” - 2:56
8. “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” - 2:59
9. “River” - 3:44
10. “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” - 3:47
11. “A Gift of Love” - 2:25

The United Socialist Party can refer to:

• United Socialist Party (France), an offshoot from the French Communist Party.
• United Socialist Party (Italy)
• United Socialist Party (San Marino) (dead party).
• United Socialist Party (Pakistan), a former sympathising section of the Committee for a Workers’ International, now part of the Socialist Movement Pakistan.
• United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka), a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International.
• United Socialist Party (UK), an organisation based in Liverpool.
• United Socialist Party of Venezuela

See also Socialist Party, Socialist Unity Party, Unified Socialist Party

The name Democratic Socialist Party is used by a number of political parties throughout the world. Most of them advocate democratic socialism, as the name implies.

Democratic socialist parties includes:

• Australia - Democratic Socialist Party
• Germany - Party of Democratic Socialism
• Guinea-Bissau - Democratic Socialist Party
• India - Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra), Party of Democratic Socialism, Loktantrik Samajwadi Party
• Italy -Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI), Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI)
• Lebanon - Democratic Socialist Party
• Montenegro - Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro (DPS CG)
• Morocco - Democratic Socialist Party

Defunct democratic socialist parties include:

• Greece - Democratic Socialist Party of Greece (1935-1950; renamed the Georgios Papandreou Party)
• Ireland - Democratic Socialist Party (1972-1990; reunited with the Labour Party)
• Japan - Democratic Socialist Party (1960-1994; merged with the New Frontier Party)

Communist Workers Party, a name used by communist parties in several countries, such as:

• Communist Workers Party of Catalonia
• Communist Workers Party (Denmark)
• Egyptian Communist Workers Party
• Communist Workers Party (Finland)
• Communist Workers Party of Germany
• Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party
• Communist Workers Party (India)
• Communist Workers Party (Iraq)
• Communist Workers Party (Japan)
• Communist Workers Party of Jordan
• Communist Workers Party of Transnistria
• Russian Communist Workers’ Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists
• Spanish Communist Workers’ Party (1921)
• Spanish Communist Workers’ Party
• Communist Workers Party of Sweden
• Communist Workers Party of Turkey (TKIP)
• Communist Workers Party (UK)
• Communist Workers Party (U.S.)

New Party may refer to:

• New Party (Argentina)
• New Party Corrientes (Argentina)
• New Party Japan
• New Party (Taiwan)
• New Party (USA)
• The New Party (UK)
• New Party (Canada)
• New Party (1873) (Greece)
• New Party Sakigake
• New Party (Oswald Mosley)

For the similarly named Twisted Sister album, see A Twisted Christmas

Twisted Christmas is a humorous Christmas album recorded by Bob Rivers and his Comedy Corp.

Track listing

1. The Twelve Pains of Christmas (3:36)
   • Parody of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”
2. The Chimney Song (2:06)
   • Original song.
3. We Wish You Weren’t Living With Us (0:44)
   • Parody of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”
4. Wreck the Malls (2:02)
   • Parody of “Deck the Halls.”
5. A Visit From St. Nicholson (4:30)
   • Parody of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (aka “T’was the Night Before Christmas”) by Clement Clark Moore, with actor Jack Nicholson instead of St. Nicholas.
6. O Come All Ye Grateful Dead-Heads (1:23)
   • Parody of “O Come All Ye Faithful.”
7. I’m Dressin’ Up Like Santa (When I Get Out On Parole) (3:06)
   • Original song.
8. The Restroom Door Said, “Gentlemen” (1:33)
   • Parody of “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.”
9. Foreigners (2:07)
   • Parody of “Angels We Have Heard on High.”
10. Joy to the World (1:22)
    • Hard rock version of traditional song.
11. A Message From the King (2:18)
    • Spoken word piece by Elvis Presley impersonator.

Fatherland Party is the name of several current or former political parties:

• Afghanistan - Watan Party (i.e. Fatherland Party), the modern incarnation of the Parcham faction of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan
• German Empire - Fatherland Party (Vaterlandspartei, 1917-18)
• Kazakhstan - Fatherland Party
• Norway - Fatherland Party
• Russia - Fatherland - All Russia (two-party bloc)
• Ukraine - Fatherland Party