Christmas
Favorite time of year
why i love itI love Christmas because it is a time of month where we go to visit my family members or they come to visit us, and we have fun together and talk. I love going to them since it takes me to new places that look better then Georgia during Christmas and I rarely get to see them because they live so far away.
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- Anglo-Saxons referred to the holiday as 'midwinter' or 'nativity'.
- Christmas lights were invented in 1882 by Edward Johnson.
- In order for Santa to visit all the homes on Christmas Eve he would have to visit 822 homes each second.
- The tradition of Christmas caroling began as an old English custom. It was originally called wassailing and was a toast to long life.
- In 1950 the world's largest Christmas tree was placed in a Washington Mall. It was 221 feet high.
- Jingle Bells was originally written by James Pierpont in 1857, for Thanksgiving not Christmas. It was originally called One Horse Open Sleigh.