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Christmas crackers are also associated with Knut's parties, held in Sweden at the end of the Christmas season. Author and historian John Julius Norwich (Viscount Norwich) was known for sending his family and friends a Christmas Cracker each year which was a kind of expanded Christmas card of anecdotes, trivia and witticisms collected from ...
Grave of Tom Smith in Highgate Cemetery Drinking fountain on Finsbury Square, commemorating Tom Smith, inventor of the Christmas cracker and his family . Smith married Martha née Hunt (1826–1898) in London in 1848 [14] and with her had seven children: Thomas Smith (1849–1928); Henry John Smith (1850–1889); John Smith (1852–1853); Walter Smith (1854–1923); twins Emanuel Smith (1857 ...
Here's another: Christmas crackers, little decorated cardboard cylinders filled with a joke, a paper hat, and treats that originated in Victorian England. These fun little items have been making ...
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Christmas Crackers were compiled from whatever attracted Norwich: letters and diaries and gravestones and poems, boastful Who's Who entries, indexes from biographies, word games such as palindromes, holorhymes and mnemonics, occasionally in untranslated Greek, French, Latin, German or whatever language they were sourced from, as well as such oddities as a review from the American outdoors ...