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Media in category "Non-free Christmas images" The following 17 files are in this category, out of 17 total. A. File:A Christmas Carol (1971 film).jpg; B.
The book The Vindication of Christmas (London, 1652) argued against the Puritans, and makes note of Old English Christmas traditions, dinner, roast apples on the fire, card playing, dances with "plow-boys" and "maidservants", old Father Christmas and carol singing. [59] The Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 ended the ban.
Other Christmas cards are more secular and can depict Christmas traditions, figures such as Santa Claus, objects directly associated with Christmas such as candles, holly, and baubles, or a variety of images associated with the season, such as Christmastide activities, snow scenes, and the wildlife of the northern winter.
As the holidays approach, this is an annual reminder that there isn’t a “war on Christmas.” Here’s a little piece of historical trivia to keep in mind this time of year: The word holiday ...
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).
The Baptist War, also known as the Sam Sharp Rebellion, the Christmas Rebellion, the Christmas Uprising and the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt of 1831–32, was an eleven-day rebellion that started on 25 December 1831 and involved up to 60,000 of the 300,000 slaves in the Colony of Jamaica. [1]
"to give up one's very self – to think only of others – how to bring the greatest happiness to others – that is the true meaning of Christmas." [ 2 ] The phrase is especially associated with Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol (1843), in which an old miser named Ebeneezer Scrooge is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three ghostly ...
This year's official Christmas tree paid homage to the distinctive floral emblem of every state and territory. [46] Melania Trump Blue Room The Spirit of America [46] 2018 Fraser fir, Newland, North Carolina [47] The official White House Christmas tree was trimmed with blue velvet ribbon embroidered in gold with each state and territory.