Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas Eve.
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The poem is significant for being the first source to give the names of Santa’s reindeer, as well as establishing the image of the jolly fat Santa that we know today.
A Christmas Carol has never been out of print since but, despite the first run selling out within 6 days, high production costs due to his very specific requirements meant that the profits were smaller than Dickens had hoped for.
“White Christmas” has since gone on to become the world’s biggest-selling single of all time.
The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
On the 24th December 1955, the Colorado Springs’ Continental Air Defense Command first began giving children the current location of Santa as he made his way across the world delivering presents.
80 red, white, and blue walnut-sized glass light bulbs were hand-wired and placed around a large Christmas tree in the home of Edward H. Johnson’s New York home on Fifth Avenue.
The Saturnalia festival was dedicated to Roman god, Saturn.
On the 23rd December 1823, the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, more commonly known as “The Night Before Christmas” was published anonymously in the New York Sentinel.
On the 19th December 1843, Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol was published in London by Chapman & Hall.
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