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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 , or an artificial tree of similar appearance ...
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree! How are thy leaves so verdant! Not only in the summertime, But even in winter is thy prime. O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, How are thy leaves so verdant! O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, Much pleasure dost thou bring me! For ev'ry year the Christmas tree, Brings to us all both joy and glee.
Christmas Tree EXEC was the first widely disruptive computer worm, which paralyzed several international computer networks in December 1987. [1] The virus ran on the IBM VM/CMS operating system. Written by a student at the Clausthal University of Technology in the REXX scripting language, it drew a crude Christmas tree as text graphics , then ...
The Christmas tree originally dates back to before Christmas, tying into how ancient civilizations celebrated the Winter Solstice, according to Texas A&M University. Evergreen plants were used to ...
When you think of a yule log, you probably picture a roaring, wood-burning fire casting a warm light on an ornament-adorned Christmas tree.Or perhaps you have a sweet tooth and the first thing ...
[8] [6] [1] It has been suggested that the origin of the Christmas pickle may have been developed in the 1890s to coincide with the importation of glass Christmas tree decorations from Germany. Woolworths was the first company to import these types of decorations into the United States in 1890, [ 6 ] and glass blown decorative vegetables were ...
A Christmas Tree, an 1850 non-fiction narrative by British author Charles Dickens "The Christmas Tree", a story featured in The Christmas Tree and Other Stories, an 1863 collection of short stories by British author Ellenor Fenn; Christmas Tree (short story collection), a 1933 collection of short stories by British author Eleanor Smith
The White House Christmas tree has been displayed in the Blue Room many times since 1961. It has also occasionally been displayed in the Entrance Hall. [8] [25] Generally, there is more than one Christmas tree in and around the White House, for instance, in 1997 there were 36, [26] in 2008 there were 27. [27]