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Christmas Trivia
Did You Know:
In 1836, Alabama is the first state in the USA to declare Christmas a legal holiday.

Did You Also Know:
The actual gift givers are different in various countries:
Spain and South America: The Three Kings
Italy: La Befana (a kindly old witch)
England: Father Christmas
France: Pere Noel (Father Christmas)
Russia: In some parts - Babouschka (a grandmotherly figure)
Other parts it is Grandfather Frost.
Germany: Christkind (angelic messenger from Jesus)
She is a beautiful fair haired girl
with a shining crown of candles.
Scandinavia: a variety of Christmas gnomes.
One is called Julenisse
Holland: St Nicholas.

Tinsel on the Christmas Tree is attributed to a woman whose husband died. She was left to bring up a large family of children herself. She was left to do everything working so hard and she was determined to make a happy time for them at Christmas. She prepared a Christmas Tree to surprise them on Christmas Day. Unfortunately spiders visited the tree, and crawled from branch to branch, making webs all over it.

Births on 25 December:
W C Field (1946)
Annie Lennox (1954)
Alannah Myles (1955)
Princess Alexandra (1936)
Sissy Spacek (1949)
Charlie Chaplin (1889)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642)

Deaths on 25 December:
Conrad Hilton (1979)
Humphrey Bogart (1957)
Dorothy Wordsworth (1855)