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2. Christmas stocking - Wikipedia

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   A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that is hung on Saint Nicholas Day or Christmas Eve so that Saint Nicholas (or the related figures of Santa Claus and Father Christmas) can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins or other small gifts when he arrives.

3. Holiday History: Why Do We Put Up and Decorate Trees?

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   Some people hang stockings over their fireplace, put up outdoor lights (hopefully with more success than Clark Griswold!), string up garland on staircases and banisters, set out coveted seasonal ...

4. How Christmas is celebrated in 21 places around the world - AOL

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   In the US, children leave cookies for Santa and hang their stockings on the fireplace. Rockefeller Center in New York City puts up a huge Christmas tree every year. Chris Hondros/Getty Images

5. How old is Santa? History on the saint, how he became ...

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   The 1822 poem "An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas," commonly called "'Twas The Night Before Christmas," furthered the narrative that Santa was a "right jolly old elf" who rode a sleigh to ...

6. Christmas decoration - Wikipedia

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   A Christmas tree inside a home, with the top of the tree containing a decoration symbolizing the Star of Bethlehem. [18]The Christmas tree was first used by German Lutherans in the 16th century, with records indicating that a Christmas tree was placed in the Cathedral of Strassburg in 1539, under the leadership of the Protestant Reformer, Martin Bucer.

7. Yule Log (TV program) - Wikipedia

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   The Yule Log was created in 1966 by Fred M. Thrower, president and chief executive officer of WPIX, Inc. Inspired by an animated Coca-Cola commercial from a year earlier that showed Santa Claus at a fireplace, he envisioned the program as a televised Christmas gift to those residents of New York who lived in apartments and homes without fireplaces.