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  2. St. Charles, Missouri - Wikipedia

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    63301-63304. Area codes. 636, 314. FIPS code. 29-64082. Website. www.stcharlescitymo.gov. Saint Charles (commonly abbreviated St. Charles) is a city in, and the county seat of, St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. [ 2] The population was 70,493 at the 2020 census, making St. Charles the 9th most populous city in Missouri.

  3. Boar's Head Feast - Wikipedia

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    The annual feast is hosted by the Department of Student Engagement, within the Division of Student Life, and is a tradition in which seniors are asked to play roles within the telling of the boar's head story with performances by the Dance Club and Choir. Young Dining Hall is decorated for the feast and meals are served family style.

  4. Festivus - Wikipedia

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    Festivus (/ ˈ f ɛ s t ɪ v ə s /) is a secular holiday celebrated on December 23 as an alternative to the perceived pressures and commercialism of the Christmas season.Originally created by author Daniel O'Keefe, Festivus entered popular culture after it was made the focus of the 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike", [1] [2] which O'Keefe's son, Dan O'Keefe, co-wrote.

  5. 10 old-school Christmas traditions that are no longer practiced

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    Stacker compiled a list of 10 Christmas traditions that are no longer widely observed using various sources. ... Although "A Christmas Carol" (written in 1843 by Charles Dickens) was an immediate ...

  6. Holiday History: Why Do We Put Up and Decorate Trees?

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    According to TIME Magazine , 1931 was the first year that this special location displayed a Christmas tree, when a 20-ft.-tall balsam was put up on Christmas Eve by the construction workers who ...

  7. Christmas traditions - Wikipedia

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    The Christmas tree is considered by some as Christianisation of pagan tradition and ritual surrounding the Winter Solstice, which included the use of evergreen boughs, and an adaptation of pagan tree worship; [25] according to eighth-century biographer Æddi Stephanus, Saint Boniface (634–709), who was a missionary in Germany, took an axe to ...

  8. What traditions does the royal family have for Christmas? - AOL

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    As for Christmas Day, the family reportedly plays charades following lunch. Last year, King Charles and Camilla attended a service at St Mary Magdalene Church with fellow members of the royal ...

  9. St. Charles Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The St. Charles Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri. It is the site of the first permanent European settlement on the Missouri River and of the embarkation of Lewis and Clark 's journey of exploration along the Missouri. The first state capital of Missouri and over one hundred ...