Category: christmas
How other religions celebrate Christmas
The Jewish Festival of Lights Chanukah, or Hanukkah, lasts for eight days, beginning the 25th of the Hebrew month Kislev (November-December). It […]
02/08/2010. Category: christmas. Tags: celebrations, hanukkah, kwanzaa, mithra, wicca
Tradition of Christmas cakes and puddings
The origins of Christmas are found in festivities with an abundance of meals. In the earlier years, as soon as the weather […]
02/08/2010. Category: christmas. Tags: cake, lunch, pie, pudding
Christmas crackers
The Christmas cracker was invented in 1847 by Tom Smith, a baker of wedding cakes from Clerkenwell, London. On a trip to […]
02/08/2010. Category: christmas. Tags: bonbon, crackers
The story of solstice
Solstice means “sun standing still.” In the Northern Hemisphere, it is the first day of winter, the shortest day and longest night […]
02/08/2010. Category: christmas. Tags: solstice
The first Christmas stamps
Mail used to be sent free; the delivery was paid for by the recipient. But in 1837, an English schoolmaster named Rowland […]
02/08/2010. Category: christmas. Tags: stamps
History of the Christmas tree
It is told that Saint Boniface, a monk from Crediton, Devonshire, England who established Christian churches in France and Germany in the […]
02/08/2010. Category: christmas. Tags: candle, martin luther, symbols, tree
Christmas gifts
Gifts were exchanged in the Roman ceremonies of Saturnalia, the festivities of solstice, the origin of our Christmas celebrations. We know the […]
02/08/2010. Category: christmas. Tags: gifts
Merry Christmas in different languages
Afrikaans Geseënde Kersfees Albanian Gezur Krislinjden Arabic Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah Armenian Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand Azeri Tezze Iliniz […]
02/08/2010. Category: christmas. Tags: feliz navidad, languages, merry christmas, noel