The "Noche-buena," or Good Night, is Christmas Eve in Spain. Following midnight Mass, the streets are alive with singing an...

A Christmas tree decorated at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis.  The goats surrounding the tree are called  Gävlebocken.       ...

Antique paper-cut pattern designed by Karl  Fröhlich of a snowy sleigh-ride, a mother gathering tree limbs for burning and boys playing on ...

Wassailers in Great Britain go door-to-door caroling and feasting on wassail, a kind of spiced ale served warm in the Christmas season.     ...

A smoke sauna in Enonkoski.        "Christmas in Finland begins with a bath. First the house is thoroughly cleaned, even washed. Then, ...

Church of Saint Servatius decorated with papel picado.        Christmas festivities in Mexico begin on December 16 and every home is decorat...

An example of a aluminum table- top  Christmas tree by EverySpoon .        Aluminum  Christmas trees  were first commercially manufactured s...

         "In the Bleak Midwinter" is a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti. It was published under the title "A Chris...

        This printable stationary illustrates a frame of rocks, forest and a mountain cabin nestled in the snow. Write the first paragraph i...

       The story of the White House is the story of America. In its rooms and gardens and ceremonial spaces can be read the development of t...

       By 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt was the President of the United States, there was a tremendous amount of alarm among naturalists and...

Scotch Pine cones, needles, branches.        It is not easy for the layman to tell one evergreen from another in normal Christmas tree sizes...