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Bookmark or Share- How 25 Christmas Traditions Got Their Start - HISTORYFrom its Puritan roots to complaints of rampant commercialism (“What is it you want?”. Charlie Brown asks Lucy in A Charlie Brown Christmas. “Real Estate.”), Christmas in America has been ...
- How Christmas has evolved over centuries - National GeographicPeople around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25. Here’s why—and the history of its iconic symbols from Christmas trees to Santa Claus.
- Christmas | Origin, Definition, Traditions, History, & Facts ...Christmas, Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus. The English term Christmas (“mass on Christ’s day”) is of fairly recent origin. The earlier term Yule may have derived from the Germanic jōl or the Anglo-Saxon geōl, which referred to the feast of the winter solstice.
- History of Christmas ‑ Origins, Traditions & Facts | HISTORYChristmas is celebrated on December 25 and is both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon. For two millennia, people around the world have been observing...
- Christmas Through the Ages - World History EncyclopediaFrom the night of Christmas Eve (24 December) to the Twelfth Day (5 January), people took a much-needed rest, largely thanks to the lull in agricultural activity mid-winter. Christmas preparations began in the home of the poor as well as the rich.
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