Christmas Trivia
Christmas Trivia
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#0Christmas Trivia
Posted: 12/20/04 at 2:46pm
1. Thomas Edison introduced the first Christmas lights on December 22 1882.
2. In 1904, Einar Holboell, a Dane promoted the first Christmas Seals. Christmas Seals were first sold in the United States in 1907 in Wilmington, Delaware.
3. The first "Christmas tree farm" planted in the USA as a commercial business was in 1901 near Trenton, New Jersey.
4. Carl Otis invented the Christmas tree lights, called BubbleLights in 1945. In the 1950's and 60's the lights became extremely popular.
5. Each Christmas there is a festive "Great Bullfight" in Peru.
6. The "poinsettia", is sometimes called the "flower of Christmas Eve" or "flower of the blessed night". This plant from Mexico was introduced to the United States in 1828 by Dr. Joel Poinsett, the 1st US ambassador to Mexico. The flower was renamed in Poinsett's honor.
7. Jingle Bells was composed in 1857 by James Pierpont, and was originally called One Horse Open Sleigh.
8. In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the Julbukk, a small figurine of a goat. It is usually made of straw.
9. Thomas Nast was the first artist to draw Santa Claus as a fat, jolly, white-whiskered old man.
10. Katherine Lee Bates References to "Mrs Santa Claus" began to appear in 1899.
11. In Holland the "eight footed horse" is a holiday tradition. Children fill their shoes with hay for the horse.
The horse leaves gifts for good children.The bad children get "spanking switches".
12. The guitar was first instrument on which the carol "Silent Night" was played. The carol was first sung as part of a church service in Austria. A guitar was used because the church organ was so badly rusted it couldn't be played.
13. London's holiday decorations in Trafalger Square includes a large Christmas tree that is an annual gift from Oslo, Norway.
14. In the Victorian era, a toy Noah's Ark was desired as a Christmas gift by both boys and girls. This toy had unisex appeal for both boys and girls as it was the only toy children of many religious faiths were allowed to play with on Sunday.
15. In the Christmas carol,Twelve Days of Christmas,the total number of gifts that "my true love gave to me" is 364.
16. Until World War I, Lauscha, Germany supplied virtually all blown-glass Christmas tree ornaments to the world.
17. According to Pennsylvania Dutch and French traditions the brother of Santa Claus, Bells Nichols visits homes on New Year's Eve after children are asleep. The children sit out plates and Santa's brother fills the plates with cakes and cookies.
18. Charlemagne was crowned first Carolingian Emperor of the Roman Empire in the year 800 A.D. on Christmas Day and William the Conqueror was crowned King of England in 1066 on Christmas Day.
19. Auld lang syne means literally old long ago in Scottish.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#1re: Christmas Trivia
Posted: 12/20/04 at 3:11pm
Oh that's nice...a bullfight celebrating Jesus' birthday! Murdering animals in cold blood is exactly what he would have recommended for the occasion as well, I'm sure.
Sorry for the rant - but bullfights are HUGE thing to me. I just dont see how people can sit there and cheer for an innocent creature to be murdered.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#2re: Christmas Trivia
Posted: 12/20/04 at 7:07pm
Hey!
Take The Christmas Trivia Quiz:
http://www.quizland.com/christmas.htm
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
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