Viscum album "Phoradendron leucarpum" is used in North America in lieu of the European "Viscum album".) According to an old Christmas custom, a man and a woman who meet under a hanging of mistletoe were obliged to kiss. The custom may be of Scandinavian origin. It was alluded to as common practice in 1808 and described in 1820 by American author Washington Irving in his "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.": In Germany, the Christmas tradition is that people who kiss under mistletoe will have an enduring love or are bound to marry one another. Every year, the UK town of
Fools Gold/What the World Is Waiting For of the Pops" as the Happy Mondays, who performed "Hallelujah" from the "Madchester Rave on E.P.", is regarded as a "cultural high-water mark", exposing the emerging Madchester scene to a wider audience, and popularizing a new dance-oriented music genre, baggy. Although a non-album double A-sided single, both tracks have appeared on the compilation albums "Turns into Stone", "The Complete Stone Roses" and "The Very Best of The Stone Roses". Both tracks have also appeared on some reissued editions of their debut album "The Stone Roses", although "Fools Gold" has appeared more often than "What The World Is Waiting For". In