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Christmas gift-bringers in Europe. This is a list of Christmas and winter gift-bringer figures from around the world. The history of mythical or folkloric gift-bringing figures who appear in winter, often at or around the Christmas period, is complex, and in many countries the gift-bringer – and the gift-bringer's date of arrival – has changed over time as native customs have been ...
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 ]
Christmas gift-bringers in Europe. A number of Midwinter or Christmas traditions in European folklore involve gift-bringers.Mostly involving the figure of a bearded old man, the traditions have mutually influenced one another, and have adopted aspects from Christian hagiography, even before the modern period.
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The Boston Post called A.C. Gilbert "The Man Who Saved Christmas" on Oct. 25, 1918, after he persuaded the Council of National Defense to not cancel Christmas during World War I.
Santa Claus distributes gifts to Union troops in Nast's first Santa Claus cartoon, (1863) The process of Christmas becoming a national holiday in the U.S. began when Representative Burton Chauncey Cook of Illinois introduced a bill in the U.S. Congress after the U.S. Civil War (1861–1865). It passed in both houses of Congress, and President ...
Freedom from Want, also known as The Thanksgiving Picture or I'll Be Home for Christmas, is the third of the Four Freedoms series of four oil paintings by American artist Norman Rockwell. The works were inspired by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's 1941 State of the Union Address , known as Four Freedoms .