Post by Rhonda on Dec 9, 2007 2:41:06 GMT -5
Christmas Facts
The Song White Christmas is the biggest selling Christmas single of all-time.
The Christmas season begins at sundown on 24th December and lasts through sundown on the 5th January. For that reason, this season is also known as the Twelve Days of Christmas.
The poinsettia, traditionally an American Christmas flower, originally grew in Mexico; where it was known as the "Flower of the Holy Night". It was first brought to America by Joel Poinsett in 1829.
Sugar Plums are chocolate candies that are filled with fruit preservatives or other sweet cream fillings.
The Christmas Poem The Night Before Christmas written by Clement Moore was originally titled A Visit from St. Nicholas.
The Song Jingle Bells was originally titled One Horse Open Sleigh .
Did you realize the name Santa Claus is not mentioned once in the popular Christmas poem The Night Before Christmas .
Early Christmas trees were decorated with fruits, flowers and candles which were heavy on the tree branches. In the 1800's German glass blowers began producing glass balls to replace the heavy decorations and called then bulbs.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was written and created by Robert May. May was an employee of the department store Montgomery Ward, and created Rudolph for Montgomery Wards who issued coloring books each year to children at their stores for Christmas.
The most popular version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was recorded by Gene Autry in 1949 and sold 2 million copies of the song in one year.
Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards in 1915, five years after the founding of the company.
In North America, children put stockings out at Christmas time. Their Dutch counterparts, however, use shoes. Dutch children set out shoes to receive gifts any time between mid-November and December 5, St. Nicholas' birthday.
More than three billion Christmas cards are sent annually in the United States.
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The Song White Christmas is the biggest selling Christmas single of all-time.
The Christmas season begins at sundown on 24th December and lasts through sundown on the 5th January. For that reason, this season is also known as the Twelve Days of Christmas.
The poinsettia, traditionally an American Christmas flower, originally grew in Mexico; where it was known as the "Flower of the Holy Night". It was first brought to America by Joel Poinsett in 1829.
Sugar Plums are chocolate candies that are filled with fruit preservatives or other sweet cream fillings.
The Christmas Poem The Night Before Christmas written by Clement Moore was originally titled A Visit from St. Nicholas.
The Song Jingle Bells was originally titled One Horse Open Sleigh .
Did you realize the name Santa Claus is not mentioned once in the popular Christmas poem The Night Before Christmas .
Early Christmas trees were decorated with fruits, flowers and candles which were heavy on the tree branches. In the 1800's German glass blowers began producing glass balls to replace the heavy decorations and called then bulbs.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was written and created by Robert May. May was an employee of the department store Montgomery Ward, and created Rudolph for Montgomery Wards who issued coloring books each year to children at their stores for Christmas.
The most popular version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was recorded by Gene Autry in 1949 and sold 2 million copies of the song in one year.
Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards in 1915, five years after the founding of the company.
In North America, children put stockings out at Christmas time. Their Dutch counterparts, however, use shoes. Dutch children set out shoes to receive gifts any time between mid-November and December 5, St. Nicholas' birthday.
More than three billion Christmas cards are sent annually in the United States.
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