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Radio has covered Christmas music from variety shows from the 1940s and 1950s, as well as modern-day stations that exclusively play Christmas music from late November through December 25. [159] Hollywood movies have featured new Christmas music, such as " White Christmas " in Holiday Inn and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer . [ 159 ]
The modern English noun Yule descends from Old English ġēol, earlier geoh(h)ol, geh(h)ol, and geóla, sometimes plural. [1] The Old English ġēol or ġēohol and ġēola or ġēoli indicate the 12-day festival of "Yule" (later: "Christmastide"), the latter indicating the month of "Yule", whereby ǣrra ġēola referred to the period before the Yule festival (December) and æftera ġēola ...
On December 25: "N ·INVICTI· CM ·XXX" – "Birthday of the unconquered, games ordered, thirty races" – is the oldest literary reference to the pagan feast of Sol Invictus; Part 7: consular portraits of the emperors – 2 miniatures (the last in the MS) Part 8: list (fasti) of the Roman consuls to AD 354
Christmas is always celebrated in America on the 25th of December, but the day of the week rotates. Here are the days of the week Christmas falls on for the next five years: Saturday, December 25 ...
The museum adds: “Traditionally December 24th is dedicated to children, December 25th—the main day of Christmas—to adults and the elderly, and December 26th to young people,” with the ...
It is a public holiday in many nations, including some such as India where the majority of the population is not Christian. On this see the articles on Christmas and Christmas traditions. 26 December is "Saint Stephen's Day", a feast day in the Western Church. In the United Kingdom and its former colonies, it is also the secular holiday of ...
As TIME Magazine reported, it is widely believed that in the Middle Ages, modern-day Germany revealed the first real Christmas trees. After all, "In 1419, a guild in Freiburg put up a tree ...
In a sermon delivered on December 25, 380, St. Gregory of Nazianzus referred to the day as "the Theophany" (ta theophania, formerly the name of a pagan festival at Delphi), [46] saying expressly that it is a day commemorating "the holy nativity of Christ" and told his listeners that they would soon be celebrating the baptism of Christ. [47]