As it's Christmas ...
During the reign of Oliver Cromwell from 1647 to 1660 the word Christmas was replaced with Christ tide as mas was thought too much like the catholic Mass. singing of carols and eating mince pies or even celebrating it was illegal for a time.
Jingle bells was not written as a Christmas song but for thanksgiving where as white Christmas is considered the most popular Christmas song of all time.
The reindeer were not named prior to the poem ''twas the night before Christmas
A recent scientific study revealed that Santa would have 31 hours to deliver gifts to every child in the world taking in the different time zones. However even if he only delivered to the 800 million children who celebrate Christmas world wide he would still have to deliver several thousand per minute so he would have little time for a mince pie and milk..thank goodness for the elves!
The first Christmas card was produced in 1843 the same year as Dickens' Christmas carol was published.
Christmas crackers (for those countries that use them) were first produced in 1847 and contained poems rather than the jokes we now see.
Greece was the first country that called Christmas as xmas.
There is some dispute about this but it is generally thought that the Nicea council decided Christmas Day was to be December 25th in 325AD. The old Julian calendar puts Christmas Day in January.
The pogues and Kirsty Mcolls fairytale of new York featured Matt Dhillon as a police officer in the video and the director had a cameo as a Santa. The boys of the NYPD don't have a choir but their Irish pipe band did actually appear in the video but are not singing gallway bay as none of them knew the song so sang the Mickey Mouse march song which you can see them doing if you watch carefully. It was kept at the n.o 2 slot in the uk music chart by the pet shop boys "You were always on my mind" in 1987. The song was recorded in July in a studio in Regent's Park London.
Nowhere in the bible does it say there were only three wise men, some believe them even to be kings but the number three probably came from the gifts, gold frankincense and myrrh
During the reign of Oliver Cromwell from 1647 to 1660 the word Christmas was replaced with Christ tide as mas was thought too much like the catholic Mass. singing of carols and eating mince pies or even celebrating it was illegal for a time.
Jingle bells was not written as a Christmas song but for thanksgiving where as white Christmas is considered the most popular Christmas song of all time.
The reindeer were not named prior to the poem ''twas the night before Christmas
A recent scientific study revealed that Santa would have 31 hours to deliver gifts to every child in the world taking in the different time zones. However even if he only delivered to the 800 million children who celebrate Christmas world wide he would still have to deliver several thousand per minute so he would have little time for a mince pie and milk..thank goodness for the elves!
The first Christmas card was produced in 1843 the same year as Dickens' Christmas carol was published.
Christmas crackers (for those countries that use them) were first produced in 1847 and contained poems rather than the jokes we now see.
Greece was the first country that called Christmas as xmas.
There is some dispute about this but it is generally thought that the Nicea council decided Christmas Day was to be December 25th in 325AD. The old Julian calendar puts Christmas Day in January.
The pogues and Kirsty Mcolls fairytale of new York featured Matt Dhillon as a police officer in the video and the director had a cameo as a Santa. The boys of the NYPD don't have a choir but their Irish pipe band did actually appear in the video but are not singing gallway bay as none of them knew the song so sang the Mickey Mouse march song which you can see them doing if you watch carefully. It was kept at the n.o 2 slot in the uk music chart by the pet shop boys "You were always on my mind" in 1987. The song was recorded in July in a studio in Regent's Park London.
Nowhere in the bible does it say there were only three wise men, some believe them even to be kings but the number three probably came from the gifts, gold frankincense and myrrh
