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Firsts and lasts: In 1836, Alabama was the first state in the United States to declare Christmas a legal holiday. U.S. President Franklin Pierce, in 1856, decorated the first White House Christmas tree. And in 1907, Oklahoma was the last state to declare Christmas a legal holiday.

The idea for using electric Christmas lights came from an American named Ralph E. Morris in 1895. The new lights proved safer than the more traditional candles.

The first Christmas card was created in England in 1843. Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards in 1915, five years after the founding of the company. An average household in America will mail out 28 Christmas cards each year and see 28 cards return in their place.

Approximately 1.8 billion Christmas cards are sent annually in the United States.

Pudding is important in the Christmas traditions of Great Britain. While making the pudding, the British have a traditional practice of making a wish while mixing the ingredients in a clockwise direction.

In Italy, a dinner of several kinds of seafood, sometimes called the “Feast of the Seven Fishes,” is popular for the Christmas Eve meal.

A Christmas tradition in Estonia takes place on Christmas Eve, when the whole family goes to the sauna together.

He is known throughout the world by various names: Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Saint

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3. Who wrote the song, “Here Comes Santa Claus?”

4. What 1990 movie told of a boy’s experience when two men break into his house during Christmas?

5. How many gifts would you receive if you received all of the gifts in the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas?”

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Red-Nosed ReindeerMontgomery Ward, the Chicago-based department-store chain, had been buying and giving away children’s coloring books as

Christmas gifts for their customers for years, but in 1939 decided to create its own book to save money. The retailer gave the assignment to one of its employees, 34-year old copywriter Robert L. May, who penned the story of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Some 2.4 million copies were handed out that year.May drew on the story “The Ugly Duckling” and also on his own background (he was often taunted as a child for being shy, small and frail) to create the story of the misfit reindeer. Several names were considered, including Rollo (too cheerful) and Reginald (too British), before May settled on Rudolph as his reindeer’s name. Concerns about Rudolph’s red nose (an image associated with drunkards) also were overcome.Written as a poem in the meter of “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” May tested the story on his 4-year old daughter Barbara, who loved it.At about the same time that May was creating Rudolph, his wife died, leaving him deeply in debt with medical bills. However, he was able to persuade Montgomery Ward’s corporate president, Sewell Avery, to turn the copyright over to him in January 1947, ensuring May’s financial security. He quit his copywriting job in 1951 but would later return to Montgomery Ward, where he worked until his retirement in 1971. May died in 1976.“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was printed commercially in 1947, and in 1948 a nine-minute cartoon of the story was shown in theaters. When May’s brother-in-law, songwriter Johnny Marks, wrote the lyrics and melody for the song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” the Rudolph phenomenon was born. The song was recorded by Gene Autry in 1949 and shot to No. 1 on the charts, selling 2 million copies that year. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” would go on to become one of the best-selling Christmas songs of all time, second only to Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas.”May’s story of Rudolph differed from the one we know today, made famous by Johnny Marks’ song and the 1964 television special narrated by Burl Ives. In the original story, Rudolph was not related to Santa’s reindeer and did not live at the North Pole, but in an ordinary reindeer village. He was well-adjusted and not regarded by his parents as a shameful embarrassment. He was discovered when Santa noticed a red glow coming from Rudolph’s room as he delivered presents to Rudolph’s house. Worried that a thickening fog would keep him from completing his Christmas Eve rounds, Santa tapped Rudolph to lead his reindeer team.


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CHRISTMAS (continued):Nicholas, Sinterklaas, St. Nick and Pere Noel. On Christmas Eve, children all over the world lie in their beds while “visions of sugarplums dance in their heads.” When they awake, they will excitedly check to see if Santa Claus visited and left them gifts.

On the west coast of Africa, in Liberia, most homes have an oil palm for a Christmas tree, which is decorated with bells. On Christmas morning, presents such as cotton cloth, soap, sweets, pencils and books are exchanged. Also on Christmas morning, a church service is held in which the Christmas scene is enacted and hymns and carols are sung.

In Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, it is customary for the streets to be blocked off around Christmas so that people can roller-skate to church.

In Bangladesh at Christmas time, Christian men in each village plant full-sized banana trees along the paths to churches. They plant them in two rows, and then bend them over to form an arch. They make oil lanterns out of bamboo poles and tie them on the arches, lighting the way to church.

In Ethiopia, Christmas is called Ganna and is observed on January 7. People gather in both ancient churches carved from solid volcanic rock and more modern churches that contain three concentric circles. Exchanging presents is a small part of their Christmas celebration. Children usually only receive necessary items like clothing.

In the Netherlands, the Dutch eagerly await December 6, for it is on this day that they celebrate St. Nicholas Day, the coming of Sinterklaas. Sinterklaas sails from Spain every winter, and Dutch children fill their shoes with hay and sugar for his horse on St. Nicholas eve and awake to find

the Christmas tree at night. The children leave a bowl of porridge out for him.

It is from Scandinavia that most of our Yule log traditions derive. The dark cold winters inspired the development of traditions concerned with warmth and light. Yuletide, meaning “the turning of the sun” or the winter solstice, has traditionally been a time of extreme importance in Scandinavia.

For a long time, it was considered dangerous to sleep alone on Christmas Eve. The extended family, master and servant alike, would sleep together on a freshly spread bed of straw.

The Yule log was originally an entire tree, carefully chosen and brought into the house with great ceremony. The butt end would be placed into the

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Gift Card Pros and ConsFor many who do last-minute holiday shopping, speed is essential. There’s no more time to ponder and compare and wander the aisles looking for the perfect gift. Gift cards can be a fast purchase, but you still need to take a little care. Consider the recipient’s interests. Teenagers might appreciate a gift card to a music store. Handy homeowners will use a gift card to the local hardware store. For women, if you can find an all-mall card, so much the better.However, not all gift cards are alike. While the industry used to be guilty of abuse with gift-card expiration dates and fees, new rules this year force merchants to keep the cards (and the balance) active for five years. If there are per-purchase fees, they must be written on the package. Balance carry-over fees can’t be assessed until the card has been used at least once. After that, however, fees can be assessed once a month, and there’s nothing to limit the amount of fees that can be charged for that.If the card is lost, there’s no guarantee you can get a replacement, even with your receipt. If you can get a replacement, there are sure to be fees. Do your homework and be sure what you’re getting.There are new warnings out this year about pre-loaded gift cards you take off the rack: There might not be any money there by the time your recipient uses them. Scammers have figured out how to read the code on a card, call the toll-free number on the back, and then spend that money. Instead of buying a pre-loaded card, get a blank card from a clerk or customer services and have the amount loaded while you wait. Then hold on to your receipt in case something happens.For the Internet-savvy recipient, consider an e-gift card, also known as a virtual gift card. You e-mail a special code to the recipient, who prints it out and takes it to the store. It spends just like a plastic gift card. Be careful of the store: If it goes bankrupt, the gift cards you buy might be worthless.Consider giving cash instead. While it’s thought that nearly 30 percent of gift cards go unused every year, nobody loses track of cash.

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them filled with gifts such as nuts and candy. On St. Nicholas Day, they celebrate with family get-togethers and feasting, after which everyone settles down to prepare for Christmas Day on December 25.

Christians of most denominations in Hong Kong celebrate Christmas with hundreds of church services spoken in Chinese. There are also services held in English for the Europeans who live there. They also send exquisitely decorated Christmas cards, and these cards often show the Holy Family in a Chinese setting. Santa Claus is known as Sing Daan Lou Yan (Christmas Old Man) in Cantonese or Sheng Dan Lo Ren in Mandarin.

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consecutive Sprint Cup championships. No one else in history has ever won more than three straight (Cale Yarborough, 1976-78). Johnson’s five championships have been accompanied by five different runners-up: Matt Kenseth (2006), Jeff Gordon (2007), Carl Edwards (2008), Mark Martin (2009) and Denny Hamlin (2010).Only two drivers, Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt, ever won more championships -- seven, in both instances -- in their careers than Johnson has won in consecutive years. Only one other driver, Gordon, has ever won more than three. Gordon, Johnson’s teammate at Hendrick Motorsports, won his fourth championship in 2001.Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick came close to putting an end to Johnson’s streak this year. Hamlin won eight races, two more than Johnson, and trailed him by just 39 points at season’s end. Harvick was the series’ most consistent driver with 26 top-10 finishes, three more than Johnson.Who steps up next to challenge Johnson, who seems the perennial champion?Certainly Hamlin and Johnson, but Edwards, whose No. 99 Ford won the season’s final two races, also will enter the 2011 campaign with high aspirations, as will former

champions Gordon (1995, ‘97-98, 2001), Tony Stewart (2002, ‘05), Kurt Busch (2004), Matt Kenseth (2003) and even Bobby Labonte (2000), who is moving into a new ride.What of Kyle Busch, who won a total of 24 races in NASCAR’s three major series, but only three in Cup? Or Dale Earnhardt Jr., still struggling after three years at Hendrick Motorsports? Or Mark Martin, who will be driving that team’s No. 5 for the final year?One compelling long shot might be the 2009 Raybestos

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THERE’S ALWAyS CINCINNATIThe 2003 New York Yankees limped into their June inter-league series against the Cincinnati Reds riding the shirttails of a 3-12 skid. The team’s owner, a man cursed with a diminutive personality named George, wasted little time in letting the town know the circus was in town. For on that morning, he decided that his team needed a “spark.”Ringmaster Steinbrenner announced that the Yankees would have a new ringleader in the clubhouse, a man who was a true leader of men. That man was Derek Jeter, who by this time had led the Yankees to several World Series victories.Longtime fans and Yankee observers knew that such a coronation would likely happen. Tongues had been wagging ever since Jeter was allowed a single digit number as a rookie (and yes, the Yankees really do keep track of things like that). Steinbrenner talked about his selection — the 10th captain in the storied franchise’s history — in lofty terms meant to span the ages.“He represents all that is good about a leader,” Steinbrenner said. “I’m a great believer in history, and I look at all the other leaders down through Yankee history, and Jeter is

right there with them.”Steinbrenner wasn’t on hand for the Jeter announcement, but it wasn’t the first time Jeter had to respond to something the owner had said through the press. A few years into the most lucrative contract in Yankee history up to that time, Jeter had been subjected to a few tabloid-ready barbs from Steinbrenner during spring training that questioned his focus. Jeter had effectively defused that situation with a calm and measured response. Likewise, his acceptance speech before the game — a loss to the Reds — was hardly one for posterity.“The impression I got is just continue to do the things I’ve been doing,” he said before the game. Nonetheless, Jeter responded with a .324 average that season, and the Yankees turned it around, winning 101 games before losing in the World Series. Now he comes off his worst season ever, just one year removed from one of his best ever in pinstripes. It was the final year of his contract. Negotiations have been tough — the Yankees low-balled Jeter back to his 2003 salary level. During negotiations, his agent reminded team brass of his “historical” significance, but it wouldn’t be the first time the Yankees dumped an older legendary player — even Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson were booted unceremoniously from the Bronx. As of this writing, Jeter appears ready to sign a deal, but in the words of an unnamed Yankee executive, “What’s he going to do? Play in Cincinnati?”It wouldn’t be the first time the Bronx circus rolled into that town. Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter and publisher of The Kansas City Luminary.


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