Christmas Around The Globe

"Twas the Night before Christmas..." and all the world waited for something special to happen...

1. Christmas Waits - Carriage rides and fond memories in England.
2. Christmas Snows At The Golden Gate! - How snow was manmade in San Francisco...
3. History of The Swedish Dala Horse - Ancient traditions made a part of Christmas spirit...
4. Christmas Joy In Fire-Swept Chicago, 1871 - The spirit of Christmas alive and well, even after great tragedy.
5. Handmade Pastillage Christmas Ornaments - The baker's way of decorating for Christmas.
6. The Christmas Putzes - Little towns, little people remind us of Christmas.
7. Christmas In The Trenches - A pause in the fighting...
8. The Christmas Road of Salem - Where Moravians gather to sing!
9. The Bafana Fair in Rome - The history of a gruff little old woman...
10. The Colonial Christmases of Early Americans - How Christmas was celebrated in the North American colonies.
11. Making Christmas Dolls in A French Factory - How the favorited toys of little girls were made in a factory more than 100 years ago.
12. Messiah has come for us all... - lovely poem and music
    
13. Remembering Marshall Field's at Christmas Time - The old department store tea rooms and window dressings...
14. Read About Christmas in Spain in 1916 - The old-time celebrations still alive at Christmas time in Spain.
15. The Festive Christmas Tree In 1906 - what was on the tree
16. Read About Christmas in Germany in 1916 - History behind the customs of Christmas in Germany.
17. Holiday Lighting Magic - lighting for the lawn
18. Celebrate Santa Lucia for Christmas, December 13th - Learn about Saint Lucy's Day celebrated by old Orthodox Christians from Sweden and Italy.
19. Polish Christmas Traditions - How peasant folk and their descendants celebrate through the passing on of traditions.
20. How To Organize Christmas Parties - Traditional party types in North America held at Christmas time...
21. Electric Christmas Lights for The Christmas Tree - How electric lights came to be invented and used for Christmas.
22. Getting Christmas Dinner On a Ranch - by former President Theodore Roosevelt
23. Birds and Animals Share Christmas - How the birds celebrate Christmas feasting in Bosnia...
24. The Legendary Gift Givers  - Who were they and how to they shape our customs of today?
25. The City by The Bay Celebrates Dickens At Christmas
26. Questions About Christmas History film about the WWI Christmas Truce and other links to the history of Christmas
27. What is a Belznickel? - Learn how a stock character turned into one of the earliest gift givers. 
28. A Frontier Christmas at Fort Sisseton - How history keepers reenact Christmas from pioneer memories...
29. Christmas crackers from Victorian England - Victorian traditional dinner favors for the young at heart.
30. Christmas Articles and Music from 1917 - Revisit the newsprint and entertainment of Christmas in 1917.
31. The Hans Christian Anderson Christmas Village - Actors and history preservationists take Christmas to a whole new level...
32. Giant Christmas Murals by Paul Johnson - The famous Christmas murals from holiday performances by Paul Johnson and David Hetland at Concordia Collage.
33. Who Was "Good King Wenceslas?" - The history and legend behind the man.
34. The German Christmas Markets - The nostalgia and flavors of markets in Germany.
35. Currier and Ives Lithographs - history and tradition
36. Living Nativities - links to video records
37. Christmas Window Displays - some records at YouTube of window displays
38. Winter Wonderland - The history behind light displays at Tillis Park, St. Louis.
39. A Touching Dutch Christmas Custom - The coming of Christmas...
40. The Climbing Boys - What and why chimney sweep characters on Victorian trees?
41. The Dark Side of Christmas - The demon who becomes a slave to Santa Claus in German Christmas plays...
42. What Are Weihnachtspyramide? - The towns and people behind the Christmas pyramid.
43. The Toymakers of The Ore Mountains - little wooden figures and smokers
44. The Yule Log in Croatia, Serbia, and Bulgaria - traditions, history, and beliefs
45. The History of The Nutcracker Ballet - A two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
46. The History of Christmas Mince-Pies - Mince-pies were popular under the name of 'mutton-pies,' so early as 1596...
47. The Jesse Tree - The Tree of Jesse is a depiction in art of the ancestors of Christ
48. Christmas Plum-Pottage - In old times, plum-pottage was always served with the first course of a Christmas-dinner.
49. Argus for the Christmas table - Next in importance to the boar's-head as a Christmas-dish came the peacock.
50. Boar's Head for Christmas? - The grand feast, however, given by the feudal chieftain to his friends and retainers, took place with great pomp and circumstance on Christmas-day.
51. The Puritan Doll - Remember when Christmas was not custom among American Pilgrims?
52. The Christmas Yule Log Traditions of England - The custom is still maintained in various parts of the England.
53. Père Noël is the gift-giver of France - A legendary gift-giver during Christmas in France
54. Ježíšek brings gifts in the Czech Republic - A Christmas gift-giving figure used in the Czech Republic
55. Eel for The Christmas Eve Soup - popular dish among Italians
    
56. Legend of the Christ Child - translated from German

 

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