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2. 18 quirky British Christmas traditions that probably confuse ...

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   The BBC reported that the first-known mince-pie recipe dates back to an 1830s-era English cookbook. By the mid-17th century, people reportedly began associating the small pies with Christmas. At ...

3. 17 Traditional Christmas Symbols (Including Bells, Holly and ...

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   In the mid-1800s, German glassmaker Hans Greiner began manufacturing hand-blown glass “Christmas baubles” in the shape of the fruits and nuts that typically decorated Christmas trees at that time.

4. 9 Christmas traditions in England that probably confuse ... - AOL

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   In the UK, it can be bad luck to keep your decorations up for more than 12 days after Christmas Daniel Kaesler / EyeEm / Getty Images Another difference between US and UK Christmas customs comes ...

5. Christmas decoration - Wikipedia

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   A Christmas decoration is any of several types of ornamentation used at Christmas and the greater Christmas and holiday season. Typical images on Christmas decorations include Baby Jesus, Mother Mary, angels, Father Christmas, Santa Claus, and the star of Bethlehem. Advent wreaths, nativity scenes, illuminations, and Moravian stars are popular ...

6. Category:Christmas images - Wikipedia

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   Eaton Centre Christmas Tree 2006.JPG 389 × 518; 211 KB Eggs-on-christmas-lights.jpg 508 × 664; 38 KB Father Christmas cartoon, Punch magazine, 24 December 1919.jpg 1,300 × 786; 522 KB

7. Christmas - Wikipedia

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   Other traditional decorations include bells, candles, candy canes, stockings, wreaths, and angels. The wreaths and candles in each window are a more traditional Christmas display. The concentric assortment of leaves, usually from an evergreen, make up Christmas wreaths. Candles in each window are meant to demonstrate that Christians believe ...

8. Hanging of the greens - Wikipedia

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   Items such as the Chrismon/Christmas tree and Advent wreath are placed in the church during the hanging of the greens ceremony. The hanging of the greens is a Western Christian ceremony in which many congregations and people adorn their churches, as well as other buildings (such as a YWCA or university), with Advent and Christmas decorations.

9. Christmas traditions - Wikipedia

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   Neapolitan presepio at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. The practice of putting up special decorations at Christmas has a long history. In the 15th century, it was recorded that in London, it was the custom at Christmas for every house and all the parish churches to be "decked with holm, ivy, bays, and whatsoever the season of the year afforded to be green". [4]