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Other recent top-ranked Christmas movies include Elf, Home Alone 2, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
The movie A Christmas Story benefits from a 24-hour marathon that runs on TBS and TNT.
And although there's debate about whether Die Hard is really a Christmas movie, Nielsen says last year it landed on the holiday list at number 11.
The Grand Ole Opry kicked off with an elderly fiddler named Uncle Jimmy Thompson, who recorded this a few years later.
Over the years, the Grand Ole Opry would host powerhouse country performers, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, and Hank Williams, who debuted on the fabled Ryman Auditorium stage.
Johnny Cash met his wife June Carter there.
Even after a move to the Grand Ole Opry house, it was a spiritual home to performers like Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, performing there in 1985, the same year the Grand Ole Opry started broadcasting shows on PBS.
It remains a central tourist attraction for Nashville, a city the Opry helped to place on the musical map.
We remember the disaster because of the song by Gordon Lightfoot, but it was one of thousands suffered by crews transporting lumber, limestone, and other goods across Lake Superior.
A new best-selling book by John U. Bacon called The Gales of November tells the stories of the sailors.
Safety standards have tightened since the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
No other freighters have sunk on the Great Lakes in the past 50 years.