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Question: What Christmas movie is about a train that takes kids to the North Pole on Christmas Eve? Answer: "The Polar Express." Question: In the song, “The 12 Days of Christmas,” how many ...
Christmas tree decorated with lights, stars, and glass balls Glade jul by Viggo Johansen (1891), showing a Danish family's Christmas tree North American family decorating Christmas tree (c. 1970s) A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, associated with the celebration of Christmas. [1]
This tree, decked out in white feathery plumes, and white and metallic ornaments, is the queen of all Christmas trees—and proof that metallics go well with white. Kseniya Ovchinnikova - Getty Images
The first Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when Italian-American workers decorated a smaller 20 foot (6.1 m) balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans" [14] on Christmas Eve. [15]
An image of the British royal family with their Christmas tree at Windsor Castle created a sensation when it was published in the Illustrated London News in 1848. A modified version of this image was published in Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia in 1850. [81] [82] By the 1870s, putting up a Christmas tree had become common in America. [81]
The National Christmas Tree and Pathway of Peace trees consumed 7,000 watts over four weeks in 2010, at a cost of about $180. [238] (The National Christmas Tree alone consumed 2,000 watts in 2011.) [212] The lighting scheme used 60,000 LED lights and 265 spherical ornaments in 2013, [220] [221] while consuming just 5700 watts. [220]
Cut evergreen trees were used in 1923 and from 1954 to 1972. Living trees were used from 1924 to 1953, and again from 1973 to the present (2011). In the list below, the height of the cut tree is the height of the tree when raised at the White House. The height of the living tree is the height when it was first planted.
The winning tree must be 18 and a half feet tall (5.6 metres). [4] The tree is ceremonially lit by the prime minister and his or her spouse, who usually say a few words first. The event is attended by various guests such as staff members, charity volunteers, British Armed Forces and their families, who sing Christmas carols afterward. [5]