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The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. [3] The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. [4] Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; [5] [6] and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the ...
August Imgard (born in Wetzlar, Germany, on January 8, 1828) emigrated from Germany to Wooster, Ohio, before he was 20 years old and started a tailoring business. [1]In 1847, Imgard cut a blue spruce tree from a woods outside town, had the village tinsmith construct a star, and placed the tree in his house, decorating it with paper ornaments, gilded nuts and Kuchen.
Michael Joseph Owens invented the first semi-automatic glass-blowing machine while working for the Toledo Glass Company. [61] The company was owned by Edward Libbey, and together the pair would form companies which ultimately became known as Owens-Illinois and Owens Corning. Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the first airplane in Dayton.
Pay a visit to Castle Noel, Ohio's Christmas museum. Gannett. Mariyam Muhammad, Akron Beacon Journal. October 18, 2024 at 8:04 AM. Christmas only comes once a year.
The 1822 poem "An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas," commonly called "'Twas The Night Before Christmas," furthered the narrative that Santa was a "right jolly old elf" who rode a sleigh to ...
In 1930, the U.S.-based Addis Brush Company created the first artificial Christmas tree made from brush bristles. [125] Another type of artificial tree is the aluminum Christmas tree, [121] first manufactured in Chicago in 1958, [126] and later in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where the majority of the trees were produced. [127]
Here's an album-sized 12-song sampling of songs − one for each day of Christmas − to add to your Ohio holiday song list to impress friends and family at your next holiday gathering.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 December 2024. Evening or entire day before Christmas Day For other uses, see Christmas Eve (disambiguation). "Christmas night" redirects here. For the album, see Christmas Night. "Nochebuena" redirects here. For the decorative plant, see Pointsettia. Christmas Eve Christmas Eve, an 1878 painting by J ...