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2. Christmas ornament - Wikipedia

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   Christmas ornaments, baubles, globes, "Christmas bulbs", or "Christmas bubbles" are decoration items, usually to decorate Christmas trees. These decorations may be woven , blown ( glass or plastic ), molded ( ceramic or metal ), carved from wood or expanded polystyrene , or made by other techniques.

3. Christmas decoration - Wikipedia

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   A Christmas tree ornament. In some places, Christmas decorations are traditionally taken down on Twelfth Night, the evening of January 5 or January 6. The difference in this date is that some count Christmas Day as the first day of Christmas, whereas for others, Christmas Day is a feast day in its own right, and the first full day of the ...

4. Christmas in Scotland - Wikipedia

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   Christmas Day was made a public holiday in 1958 [12] in Scotland, Boxing Day only in 1974. [13] The New Year's Eve festivity, Hogmanay, was by far the largest celebration in Scotland. The giftgiving, public holidays and feasting associated with mid-winter were traditionally held between 11 December and 6 January. However, since the 1980s, the ...

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

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   When it comes to ornaments, in particular, Annual Ornaments reported that a glassblower named Hans Greiner could not afford apples to decorate his Christmas tree, so he created his own out of ...

6. Thousands of vintage ornaments fill Christmas trees at ... - AOL

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   On his largest tree — a white, 10-foot pre-lit twig tree with branches that extend out horizontally — he hangs his ornaments about 2 inches apart, starting at the base of the tree to the tip ...

7. 10 old-school Christmas traditions that are no longer practiced

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   Placing lit candles on Christmas trees dates back to 17th-century Germany. However, the festive trees were the source of several deadly fires. The fire risk was so great that insurance companies ...