All these various European traditions came together in the great melting pot of America.所有这些不同的欧洲传统交汇在美国这个大熔炉里。In New York in 1823, a professor at the Protestant Episcopal Seminary, Clement Moore, wrote a poem for his children, 'Twas the night before Christmas:1823年，纽...
The holiday got another push in 1843, when the great British writer, Charles Dickens, published his short novel, “A Christmas Carol”. The redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge perfectly captured what we now refer to as “the Christmas spirit”: th...
Christmas history is much older than you think. It is older than Santa Claus, Christmas trees or even the Nativity of Jesus Christ. Christmas history stretches from society to society, from culture to culture. It is amazing to see how many of the icons o
Nicholas went to the man’s home at night and threw a bag of gold through the man's window. The bag of gold landed in one of the daughters' stockings that had been hung up to dry. Today, all the above traditions are still kept as ways of celebrating Christmas...
On the night before Christmas all across the world millions of children will be tucked in their beds while "visions of sugarplums dance in their heads." When they awake they will check their stockings to see if Santa Claus has come. Santa Claus has become the most beloved of Christmas sym...
Nova Scotia in Canada is the world’s leading exporter of Christmas trees. Boar’s head and mustard were the traditional English Christmas fare before roast turkey – a bird native to North America. Christmas is the most profitable holiday for businesses around the world. ...
America first called for a national day of thanksgiving to celebrate victory over the British in the Battle of Saratoga. In 1789, George Washington again called for national day of thanks on the last Thursday of November in 1777 to commemorate the end of the Revolutionary War and the ratificat...
Which wished him lots of Christmas cheer, And fortune in the coming year, Were never from his near and dear, But only from himself. King John was not a good man, Yet had his hopes and fears. They’d given him no present now
Baseball is a game played with a bat, a ball, and gloves between two teams of nine players each on a field with four bases laid out in a diamond. Long called America’s ‘national pastime’ and thought to have been invented in the U.S., the game was actu
Did you know? Poinsettia plants are named after Joel R. Poinsett, an American minister to Mexico, who brought the red-and-green plant from Mexico to America in 1828. In these countries, the holiday is considered the beginning of theChristmasseason and, as such, is sometimes referred to as...