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Now these may be a little tougher. Interpret
these “wordy” sentences into their simpler form
and then, name that popular Christmas song!
5.)
Hollow objects, typically made of metal
and having the shape of a deep inverted cup
widening at the lip, that sounds a clear musical
note when struck, typically by means of a
clapper inside made from a white, ductile
metallic element with the atomic symbol of Ag.
6.)
My parent’s mother was involved in an
unexpected trampling incident with an antlered
creature of the genus Rangifer.
Christmas Fun Facts
In the Dickens novel “A Christmas Carol”,
Charles Dickens first penned the words “Bah
Christmas!” then later changed it to “Bah
Humbug!”
If you counted all the gifts that were given
in the song “Twelve Days of Christmas” you
would realize that the number of gifts being
presented were 364 in total, thus a gift was
given for each day of the year.
Alabama was the first state to recognize
Christmas as an official holiday. This tradition
began in 1836.
Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards
in 1915, five years after the founding of the
company.
In an effort to solicit cash to pay for a charity
Christmas dinner in 1891, a large crabpot was
set down on a San Francisco street, becoming
the first Salvation Army collection kettle.
In the Thomas Nast cartoon that first depicted
Santa Claus with a sleigh and reindeer, he was
delivering Christmas gifts to soldiers fighting in
the U.S. Civil War. The cartoon, entitled “Santa
Claus in Camp,” appeared in Harper’s Weekly
on January 3, 1863.
The earliest decorations to be bought came
from Nuremburg in Germany, a city famous
for the manufacture of toys. In 1880, America
discovered German mountain village Lauscha
made ornaments, famous still today. F.W.
Woolworth went there and bought a few glass
Christmas tree ornaments. Within a day he
had sold out, so next year Woolworth bought
more and within a week they, too, had sold.
The year after that he bought 200,000 Lauscha
ornaments.
During the first World War supplies of
ornaments from Lauscha ceased, so American
manufacturers began to make their own
ornaments, developing new techniques that
allowed them to turn out as many ornaments
in a minute as could be made in a whole day at
Lauscha.
Story by Nila Smith
Sources:
Brian Candy Holidays -
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com/braincandy/xmaspage.html
The History of Christmas -
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thehistoryofchristmas.com/
Christmas Facts -
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net/interesting-christmas-facts
Answers:
1.) – b
2.) – Abraham Lincoln
3.) – twice
4.) - Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
5.) - Silver Bells
6.) - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
