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Fred Bear
12-27-2003, 08:06 AM
this will explain it all. Linky (http://people.howstuffworks.com/christmas2.htm)
Fantum309
12-27-2003, 11:56 AM
Very interesting! Thanks Fred. :thumbs:
EXEcution
12-27-2003, 01:29 PM
Kewl so there is more to Christmas than i though...
Thundarr
12-28-2003, 02:14 AM
I can't believe Rudolf was created as an advertising gimmick :blink: I would have never thought that!! Very interesting link!! :thumbs:
Fred Bear
12-28-2003, 07:13 AM
I didnt know this one
~ Epiphany, 6th January, is the traditional end of the Christmas holiday and is the date on which we take down the tree and decorations. To do so earlier is thought to bring bad luck for the rest of the year. From the middle ages until the mid-nineteenth century, Twelfth Night was more popular than Christmas day, and even today some countries celebrate Epiphany as the most important day of the Christmas season.
Fred Bear
12-28-2003, 07:14 AM
Fantum and I will think this is funny -
~ In America in 1822, the postmaster of Washington, DC, complained that he had to add 16 mailmen at Christmas to deal with cards alone. He wanted the number of cards a person could send limited by law. "I don't know what we'll do if this keeps
on," he wrote.
Fantum309
12-28-2003, 10:10 AM
Looks like the law never got passed and things got a little outta hand. They should have come up with email back then! :bandhead: