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* “The Nutcracker” is the name for the ballet performed around Christmas time each year. “The Nutcracker Suite” is the title of the music Tchaikovsky wrote. * “White Christmas” (1954), starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, was the first movie to be made in Vista Vision, a deep-focus process. * After “A Christmas Carol,” Charles [...]
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* A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard. * An old wives’ tale says that bread baked on Christmas Eve will never go mouldy. * At Christmas, Ukrainians prepare a traditional twelve-course meal. A family’s youngest child watches through the window for the evening star to [...]
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* According to the National Christmas Tree Association, Americans buy 37.1 million real Christmas trees each year; 25 percent of them are from the nation’s 5,000 choose-and-cut farms. * All Christmas trees are grown from seed – pines, firs and spruces are ancient varieties of trees, and never developed the ability to grow from cuttings. [...]
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* “Hot cockles” was a popular game at Christmas in medieval times. It was a game in which the other players took turns striking the blindfolded player, who had to guess the name of the person delivering each blow. “Hot cockles” was still a Christmas pastime until the Victorian era. * “Wassail” comes from the [...]
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* Advent marks the beginning of the Christian year. It is the four weeks before Christmas beginning on November 30 or the nearest Sunday to it. This is the Church’s New Year’s Day. The word Advent comes from the Latin ‘adventus’ which means ‘arrival’ or ‘coming’. This time for Christians is a season of hope [...]
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* 56 percent of Americans sing holiday carols to their pets. * Carols are songs of religious joy sung at a particular season of the year, especially Christmas. Christmas carols are songs (hymns) where the words are about Christmas or winter that are sung just before or during Christmas. * Christmas carolling began as an [...]
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* According to historical accounts, the first Christmas in the Philippines was celebrated 200 years before Ferdinand Magellan discovered the country for the western world, likely between the years 1280 and 1320 AD. * According to legend, King Arthur made merry in York in 521 surrounded by “minstrels, gleemen, harpers, pipe-players, jugglers, and dancers.” * [...]
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