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  2. Xmas - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation of Christmas as Xmas is a source of disagreement among Christians who observe the holiday. The December 1957 News and Views published by the Church League of America , a conservative organization co-founded in 1937 by George Washington Robnett, [ 21 ] attacked the use of Xmas in an article titled "X=The Unknown Quantity".

  3. Christmas - Wikipedia

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    Most Christians celebrate on December 25 in the Gregorian calendar, which has been adopted almost universally in the civil calendars used in countries throughout the world. However, part of the Eastern Christian Churches celebrate Christmas on December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which currently corresponds to January 7 in the Gregorian ...

  4. Christmas and holiday season - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Fire Administration [29] states that the Christmas and holiday season is "a time of elevated risk for winter heating fires" and that the fact that many people celebrate the different holidays during the Christmas and holiday season by decorating their homes with seasonal garlands, electric lights, candles, and banners, has the ...

  5. How Christmas is celebrated in 21 places around the world - AOL

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    There are lots of different ways people celebrate Christmas around the world.. In Japan, a bucket of KFC fried chicken has become a holiday staple. Christmas Eve in Finland can involve going to ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. What Is Christmas and Why Do We Celebrate It? - AOL

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    In fact, the word Christmas comes from Cristes maesse, Old English for “Christ’s Mass,” which references the Catholic tradition of holding a special mass ceremony to celebrate Jesus. The ...

  8. Yule - Wikipedia

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    Yule is a winter festival historically observed by the Germanic peoples that was incorporated into Christmas during the Christianisation of the Germanic peoples.In present times adherents of some new religious movements (such as Modern Germanic paganism) celebrate Yule independently of the Christian festival.

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

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    Some folks in the UK celebrate Christmas with pantomime, a campy, family-friendly theater show. Christmas pudding, a popular holiday dessert in the UK, is probably unfamiliar to most Americans.