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Yet the German tradition of opening presents on Christmas Eve remains, even up to the present day. Around 4 p.m. on Dec. 24, tea and snacks are typically served to guests — who arrived earlier ...
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are to thank for many of the royal family's Christmas traditions—including popularizing the Christmas tree. The royals changed their name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ...
When you're a kid, there's really no time early enough to open your presents on Christmas morning. But it turns out that opening your presents before breakfast apparently makes you seem "vulgar ...
Christmas celebrations in the denominations of Western Christianity have long begun on Christmas Eve, due in part to the Christian liturgical day starting at sunset, [5] a practice inherited from Jewish tradition, [6] and based on the story of Creation in the Book of Genesis: "And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day."
A Christmas gift or Christmas present is a gift given in celebration of Christmas. Christmas gifts are often exchanged on Christmas Eve (December 24), [ 1 ] Christmas Day itself (December 25) or on the last day of the twelve-day Christmas season , Twelfth Night ( January 5 ). [ 2 ]
Christmas Eve gift" is an exclamation traced back to the early 1800s in the southern United States. [1] It is derived from the tradition of waking on Christmas morning and rushing to say "Christmas gift" before anyone else. The person being told "Christmas gift!" is expected to present the person saying it to them with a present.
On Christmas Day, which next falls on Jan. 7 and is known as Ganna (or Genna), people dress in white to go to mass in the morning. Also part of the Christmas tradition in Ethiopia, particularly in ...
"A Christmas Memory" is a short story by Truman Capote. Originally published in Mademoiselle magazine in December 1956, it was reprinted in The Selected Writings of Truman Capote in 1963. It was issued in a stand-alone hardcover edition by Random House in 1966, and it has been published in many editions and anthologies since.