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2. Christmas controversies - Wikipedia

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   The book The Vindication of Christmas (London, 1652) argued against the Puritans, and makes note of Old English Christmas traditions, dinner, roast apples on the fire, card playing, dances with "plow-boys" and "maidservants", old Father Christmas and carol singing. [43] The Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 ended the ban.

3. 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 ...

4. 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]

5. Gift - Wikipedia

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   An estimated $3.4 billion was spent on unwanted Christmas gifts in the United States in 2017. [9] The day after Christmas is typically the busiest day for returns in countries with large Christmas gift giving traditions. [9] [10] The total unredeemed value of gift cards purchased in the U.S. each year is estimated to be about a billion dollars. [7]

6. A Partridge Family Christmas Card - Wikipedia

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   A Partridge Family Christmas Card is a Christmas album (and the fourth studio album) by the Partridge Family, released in November 1971. The album's case contains a reproduction of a Christmas card signed by the whole Partridge Family, the stars of a 1970s sitcom. The song "My Christmas Card to You" was original, but the remainder of the tracks ...

7. Christmas stocking - Wikipedia

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   A filled Christmas stocking. A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that is hung on Saint Nicholas Day or Christmas Eve so that Saint Nicholas (or the related figures of Santa Claus and Father Christmas) can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins or other small gifts when he arrives.