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Christmas and the Christmas festivals have many different customs that have been honoured for centuries. Here are some interesting facts about Christmas.<\/p>\n
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25 December has been the official date for the celebration of Christmas and the birth of Jesus Christ since 350 AD, declared by Pope Julius I.<\/p>\n
The largest Christmas tree was 67.36m (221 feet) high and was erected at the Northgate shopping centre in Seattle in 1950. It is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.<\/p>\n
The traditional Christmas colours are green, red and gold. Green stands for life and rebirth, red for the blood of Jesus Christ and gold for wealth and royalty.<\/p>\n
Ancient peoples revered mistletoe as sacred because it remains green in winter and bears fruit when most other plants die. The druids believed that mistletoe had the power to heal infertility and nervous disorders and ward off evil.<\/p>\n
Early depictions of St Nicholas portray him as strict and authoritarian with a birch rod in his hand, in contrast to the cheerful fatherly figure we know today. He was a symbol of discipline, obedience and punishment.<\/p>\n
The first written reference to a Christmas tree comes from Germany in 1531.<\/p>\n
Christmas trees were originally decorated with apples, in reference to the apples in Eden.<\/p>\n
The British illustrator John Callcott Horsley invented the Christmas card in 1843.<\/p>\n
The Christmas tree came to America in 1830, but only became famous when Prince Albert brought it to England for his wedding to Queen Victoria in 1846.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If there is an average of 2.5 children per household in the world, Father Christmas would have to visit 842 million households on Christmas Eve and travel a total of over 355 million kilometres at a speed of 2\/10000 of a second between two houses. This means he would have to accelerate 20.5 billion metres per second at each stopover.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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