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Even Some ‘Religious’ Elements of Christmas Celebrations Stray ?from the Truth, Says Bible Publisher-Scholar
Read moreFor one reason or another Pop never got around to getting a “live” tree until the week, if not days, before Christmas. Of course, by then the pickins are precariously slim. One year he actually took back the sad sapling to exchange it on Christmas Eve. I don’t know what my father was telling the tree guys in Italian at the tree lot, but it sure wasn’t Buon Natale.
Read moreAccording to a 2015 article in the Smithsonian, the custom of sending Christmas cards was started in the United Kingdom in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole, a senior civil servant who had helped set-up the new ‘Public Record Office,’ which is now called the Post Office.
Read moreIt’s the most wonderful time of the year, when cooks around the country take to their kitchens to bake cookies galore. Whether you prefer gingerbread men, crisp springerle or crunchy biscotti, chances are you’ll enjoy some fresh baked Christmas cookies this holiday season. Like many Christmas traditions, the origin of this delicious custom lies ages ago, in solstice rituals conducted long before Christmas became the huge commercial holiday it is today.
Read moreThe Holly Jolly History of the Santa Suit
Read moreA man now, Fritz Vincken, narrates this true story about when he was a small boy at the time in 1944.
Read moreBalsam wreaths and visions of sugarplums had barely faded in the first weeks of 1939, but thoughts inside the Chicago headquarters of retail giant Montgomery Ward had already turned to the next Christmas 11 months away. The retailer had traditionally purchased and distributed coloring books to children as a holiday promotion, but the advertising department decided it would be cheaper and more effective instead to develop its own Christmas-themed book in-house.
Read moreCarols were first sung in Europe thousands of years ago, but these were not Christmas Carols.
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