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2. Christmas cracker - Wikipedia

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   Christmas crackers are also associated with Knut's parties, held in Sweden at the end of the Christmas season. Author and historian John Julius Norwich (Viscount Norwich) was known for sending his family and friends a Christmas Cracker each year which was a kind of expanded Christmas card of anecdotes, trivia and witticisms collected from ...

3. Christmas in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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   A silk Christmas card, ca. 1860. Soldiers not actively campaigning celebrated Christmas in several ways. Union soldiers would use salt pork and hardtack to decorate Christmas trees. [8] Others were treated to special meals; a captain from Massachusetts treated his soldiers to foods such as turkey, oysters, pies, and apples. [6]

4. Christmas wafer - Wikipedia

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   In Poland and some parts of Central Europe, these Christmas wafers are dyed and used as ornaments. [8] They are also sent as small trinkets with greeting cards to loved ones who are away from home. [9] The Christmas wafer symbolizes the unity of the family, [10] which many consider to be the main pillar of society. According to beliefs, the ...

5. Christmas gift - Wikipedia

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   A Christmas gift or Christmas present is a gift given in celebration of Christmas. Christmas gifts are often exchanged on Christmas Eve (December 24), [ 1 ] Christmas Day itself (December 25) or on the last day of the twelve-day Christmas season , Twelfth Night ( January 5 ). [ 2 ]

6. Jim Reeves - Wikipedia

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   Many of his Christmas songs have become perennial favorites, including "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S", [7] "Blue Christmas", and "An Old Christmas Card". Between 1957 and 1958, Reeves was the host of a radio show on the ABC network. Debuting on October 7, 1957, the program was broadcast weekdays from 1 to 2 p.m. from Nashville, Tennessee.

7. Krampus - Wikipedia

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   1900s illustration of Saint Nicholas and Krampus visiting a child. The Krampus is a horned anthropomorphic figure who, in the Central and Eastern Alpine folkloric tradition, is said to accompany Saint Nicholas on visits to children during the night of 5 December (Krampusnacht; "Krampus Night"), immediately before the Feast of St. Nicholas on 6 December.