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The cover of a series of illustrations for the "Night Before Christmas", published as part of the Public Works Administration project in 1934 by Helmuth F. Thoms "A Visit from St. Nicholas", routinely referred to as "The Night Before Christmas" and "' Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title "Account of a Visit from St ...
"Old Santeclaus with Much Delight" is an anonymous illustrated children's poem published in New York in 1821, predating by two years the first publication of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("Twas the Night before Christmas"). It is the first publication to mention (and illustrate) Santa Claus's reindeer and his sleigh, as well as being the first ...
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.
Question: What Christmas movie is about a train that takes kids to the North Pole on Christmas Eve? Answer: "The Polar Express." Question: In the song, “The 12 Days of Christmas,” how many ...
'Twas the Night Before Christmas History. The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called ...
Question: Who wrote, "Christmas doesn't come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more?" Answer: Dr. Seuss Question: Three of Santa's reindeer's names begin with the letter "D."
The Oxen" is a poem (sometimes known by its first line, "Christmas Eve, and Twelve of the Clock") by the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840–1928). It relates to a West Country legend: that, on the anniversary of Christ 's Nativity , each Christmas Day , farm animals kneel in their stalls in homage.
” After Moore first wrote the poem, he read it to his children on Christmas Eve, and a friend who was visiting was so impressed that she sent it to a newspaper, who published it the next year in ...