Christmas Facts

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    The first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria in 1937.
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    One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
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    Gold-wrapped chocolate coins commemorate St Nicholas who gave bags of gold coins to the poor.
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    In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat. It is usually made of straw. Scandinavian Christmas festivities feature a variety of straw decorations in the form of stars, angels, hearts and other shapes, as well as t
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    Louis Prang, a Bavarian-born lithographer who came to the USA from Germany in the 19th century, popularized the sending of printed Christmas cards. He invented a way of reproducing color oil paintings
    , the "chromolithograph technique", and created a car
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    The Queen's Christmas speech was first televised in 1957.
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    The abbreviation Xmas isn't irreligious. The letter X is a Greek abbreviation for Christ.
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