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Christmas is the most
widely celebrated festival world over, and also the most popular festival globally. We
have tried to present you with not only the history, but also enjoyable information on the
different icons that we associate with Christmas. In fact, these things have become
so common with the celebration of X'mas, when we see Santa riding on a reindeer
sledge with the stockings full of gifts and candies; or the familiar coniferous
green trees being decorated with tinsels and stars, and gingerbread and fruits; or houses
being decorated with holly twigs and mistletoes - we know Christmas has come. For, these
are what Christmas mean to us, at least symbolically. Let us take a look at what they
really mean and their association with Christmas:
Who is this  Santa? What is this  Xmas Tree?
Why the Mistletoe, and the  Holly? Or a prickly Glastonbury Thorn?
Why poinsettia is a Christmas flower?
What is so special about  Reindeer?
And did the  Xmas Star really come bright on
the night?
And ofcourse ~  The History
Of Christmas
Xmas time is also the time to commemorate the
birth of Christ Child with Nativity and caroling as it is also time for gift-giving,
mistletoe and Evergreens, the roses and poinsettia, the cakes, cookies and
candies. So take a peek at the following pages too:
Some Light on the Date of Christmas, Jesus, and
Christanity
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