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43 unusual facts about Christmas


Abies amabilis

The foliage has an attractive scent, and is sometimes used for Christmas decoration, including Christmas trees.

Bremanger

The coastal fort was attacked under the well-known Måløy raid, Operation Archery, during Christmas 1941.

C. Ernst Harth

He got his first taste of acting in grade school when the drama club cast the school's largest child to play Santa in their Christmas pageant.

California Trout

Initially organized in the mid-1960s as a local unit of Trout Unlimited, the founders formed CalTrout during Christmas week of 1970 and filed papers of incorporation the following January.

Captain John's Harbour Boat Restaurant

The restaurant was open every day of the year, including all major holidays such as Christmas and New Year's Day.

Charles Cahier

He also wrote studies on Christmas and on Epiphany in Amide la religion (Paris, 1848–1849), and in his Calendrier populaire du temps passé in Revue de l'art chrétien (Paris, 1878).

Christmas beetle

They are known as Christmas beetles because they are abundant in both urban and rural areas close to Christmas.

Christmas club

The concept is that bank customers deposit a set amount of money each week into a special savings account, and receive the money back at the end of the year for Christmas shopping.

Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day

Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day was first published by Chapman & Hall in 1850.

Christmas, Florida

and his "...tribute to the American folk humorist, Will Rogers at Claremore, Oklahoma..." (Dickinson, 2006).

Danny Seward

In December 2005, Danny was invited to sing alongside Elaine Paige and John Barrowman in a Christmas concert performed at the Birmingham Symphony Hall, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

David Alan Bailey

In 1973, Bailey co-starred in the dramatic short film Peege, in which he portrayed Jerry, the middle son in a family who pay a Christmas visit to their now blind and helpless grandmother in the nursing home where she resides.

Desfina

The Christmas and the Easter are celebrated with particular way mainly in villages and small town.

Dyllan Christopher

He played one of the five major roles in the 2006 film Unaccompanied Minors - Spencer, the leader of a group of kids who get stuck in an airport on Christmas.

Ed Cullen

His most heart-warming essay concerns Christmas 1959, the last Christmas with his mother in which he failed to receive the shortwave radio that he was expecting.

Fixed feast

A fixed feast is an annual celebration that is held on the same calendar date every year, such as Christmas, as distinguished from moveable feasts, such as Easter, whose calendar date varies.

Frode Andresen

On the January 22, 2006, Frode Andresen won the Golden Cup, which is a trophy awarded to the biathlete with the most points during the three world cup events after Christmas.

Geoffrey Madan

Madan had an eye for aphorisms, and each Christmas between 1929 and 1933 sent a small anthology from his notebooks to his friends.

Graham Branch

Having made 109 appearances for them, with loan deals at Bury and Wigan Athletic along the way, he was released on a free transfer to Stockport County for the beginning of the 1998–99 season, and quickly arrived at Turf Moor around Christmas in 1998 when signed by the colourful manager Stan Ternent, following a falling-out with then Stockport manager, Gary Megson.

Hank Stuever

It centers around the lives of three different families in Frisco, Texas, during three consecutive Christmas seasons and the impact the holiday has on modern culture and the consumer economy.

Haya Doin'?

Joe Summa and Carmine Famiglietti were not songwriters, but actors, when they decided to write a song about the Christmas gifts that a stereotypical Italian American might receive.

Hayden Foxe

He was a regular in Portsmouth's side until a fractured bone in his foot ended his campaign at Christmas.

Jól á leið til jarðar

Two inexperienced angels from heaven must deliver a casket containing the holiday of Christmas to Earth in time for Christmas Eve, as the evil Öngull attempts to steal the casket, and sink it in the deepest black hole in space.

Kevin Paige

He also released a Christmas CD with his wife, Bethany Paige, entitled A W.O.W. Christmas in 2004, as well as a contemporary Christian disc entitled Faith, Hope, Love, Passion that same year.

Madrigal dinner

A Madrigal Dinner or Madrigal Feast is an American form of dinner theater often held by schools and church groups during the Christmas season.

Marcelo Moretto

During the 2005 Christmas and New Year break in Portugal, a lot was spoken in the press about Moretto's possible transfer to Benfica or F.C. Porto.

Margaritus of Brindisi

Margaritus and many nobles of the old guard, including Nicholas, Archbishop of Salerno, the son of Matthew of Ajello, and Tancred's widow, Sibylla of Acerra, and brief successor, William III, were present at the Christmas coronation.

Naisrín Elsafty

Naisrín grew up in a multicultural and multi-religious household, celebrating both Christmas and the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr (the end of Ramadan).

Nedbank Golf Challenge

It is not an official money event for any of the major tours, and like many high profile unofficial tournaments in professional golf it takes place between the conclusion of the PGA Tour in early November, and Christmas.

Ossian Everett Mills

In 1886, Mills originated the practice of taking a group of New England Conservatory students to perform for patients in Boston hospitals on Christmas and Easter.

Peter P. Jurchak

His musicianship was often requested for church functions, and it soon became standard for him to play at events such as the Christmas Eve celebration at St. Adrian's.

Prostanthera lasianthos

They appear in late spring and summer, and specifically around Christmas time in Victoria.

Pyrus Series

The next day, Gyldengrød finds out that the problem is much bigger than first thought because Christmas has disappeared.

Robert De Cormier

He has also recorded several Christmas albums with his choral group, The Robert DeCormier Singers.

Roger Ewing

He also appeared that season as Eddie Fox in the episode "The Christmas Show" of ABC's short-lived The Bing Crosby Show, starring Bing Crosby and Beverly Garland, and in a third sitcom as well in the role of Norman in the episode entitled "Look Who's a Sailor" on CBS's short-lived The Baileys of Balboa.

Rosa Brítez

Doña Rosa creates fantastic shapes of clay, from the figures of Paraguayan mythology, plates representing the sun and the moon, Christmas houses, animals, and characteristic persons of the Paraguayan culture.

Samantha Bee

In December 2005, on The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly used a clip of Bee from The Daily Show as an example of "The War on Christmas", presenting it as having aired recently.

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The satirical clip featured Bee mentioning how Christmas was the only religious holiday that's also a federal holiday in the United States, with O'Reilly talking about "Secular Central...excuse me, Comedy Central".

St. Mary's College, Sault Ste. Marie

A long running tradition at St. Mary's College is "Pennies from Heaven" which raises money each Christmas season to be donated to various youth charities.

The Front Porch Country Band

The Front Porch Country Band performed the world premiere of their multimedia Christmas production, "Christmas Once Upon A Time," on December 12, 2009 at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

The Heart

In 2004 and 2005, the channel's regular format was temporarily replaced with a pop Christmas music format called "Holly" between Thanksgiving and Christmas; in 2006, Holly preempted XM's U-Pop channel instead and The Heart retained its normal format through December.

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

The book is a 413-page collection of diary entries written between Christmas of 1986 and Christmas of 1987.

Zara Glover

Zara's nan bought her a bowling ball for Christmas that year and a Pro Shop operator recommended that she join the Youth Bowling Club so she went along on a Saturday morning and the rest is was set in stone


Alan Maitland

Some "Fireside Al" segments continue to air on the program to this day, particularly his Christmas Eve readings of stories by Frederick Forsyth, notably The Shepherd, and O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi.

Arthur Bridgett

Bridgett was a deeply religious man, and refused to play on Good Friday or Christmas Day throughout his career.

Aston Hall

Irving's The Sketch Book stories depicted harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities he experienced while staying in Aston Hall, that had largely been abandoned.

Caistor Grammar School

The facilities were completed by the following Christmas, and were officially opened by celebrity chef Rachel Green on 24 May 2011.

Carve Her Name with Pride

The poem, 'The Life That I Have', also known as 'Yours', recited to Violette by her husband Etienne, was once believed to have been written especially for the film, but was in fact the actual code poem given to her in March 1944 by the SOE cryptographer Leo Marks, and written by him on Christmas Eve 1943 in memory of his girlfriend, Ruth, who had recently died in a car crash.

Celebrate the Magic

The show premiered with the original Christmas segment from The Magic, the Memories and You.

Christmas Canon

"Christmas Canon" is a Christmas song by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) from their 1998 album The Christmas Attic.

Christmas Carol Kauffman

After his release, Allison maintained a friendship with the Kauffmans, and even visited Christmas Carol while she was hospitalized in Elkhart, Indiana.

Christmas Cottage

It tells the story of the inspiration behind Thomas Kinkade's painting The Christmas Cottage, and how the artist was motivated to begin his career after discovering his mother was in danger of losing their family home.

Christmas in Connecticut

In 1992, a remake of Christmas in Connecticut was made, starring Dyan Cannon as Elizabeth, Kris Kristofferson as Jefferson Jones, and Tony Curtis as Mr. Yardley.

Christmas Island shrew

The Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), also known as Christmas Island musk-shrew is an extremely rare or possibly extinct shrew from Christmas Island.

Christmas Market, Stuttgart

Stuttgart Christmas Market, known in German as the Stuttgarter Weihnachtsmarkt is a Christmas market that takes place every year during Advent in the German city of Stuttgart.

Christmas Tales

Christmas Tales is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album by the Belarusian-Norwegian artist Alexander Rybak, it released on the November 23, 2012 in Norway.

Collin Street Bakery

Celebrities such as Enrico Caruso and Will Rogers were sighted at the bakery, and in 1914 the Ringling Brothers Circus passed through town and ordered dozens of fruitcakes as Christmas gifts to be mailed to friends and family across the globe.

Czech Christmas Mass

Jakub Jan Ryba: Czech Christmas Mass (Česká mše vánoční) – Jaroslava Vymazalová, Marie Mrázová, Beno Blachut, Zdeněk Kroupa, Václav Smetáček conducting the Prague Symphony Orchestra, Josef Veselka and the Czech Philharmonic Chorus; Supraphon SU 3649 (1966).

Don Gilet

In 2010, he appeared as Abanazar in the Churchill Theatre Bromley's Christmas pantomime Aladdin alongside Melinda Messenger.

Donna VanLiere

Donna VanLiere is an American author of fiction, primarily novels about Christmas.

ECWA Hospital Egbe

Tommy and wife arrived Egbe two days before Christmas 1915 from their honey moon, they didn’t realise how exciting Christmas Day was going to be.

Erich Bey

Promoted to Rear Admiral, on Christmas Day, 25 December 1943, Bey led a task force consisting of the battleship Scharnhorst and the Z29, Z30, Z33, Z34 and Z38 out of Alta Fjord in Operation Ostfront.

Gaudete

Chris Squire and a choir recorded a rock version on the 2007 Christmas album Chris Squire's Swiss Choir.

Harlekin

It was begun at Easter 1975 in Morocco, and completed on Christmas Eve of the same year on Big Corn Island off the coast of Nicaragua (Kurtz 1992, 201).

Helleborus niger

Although the flowers resemble wild roses (and despite its common name), Christmas rose does not belong to the rose family (Rosaceae).

It Snowed

It Snowed is a 2011 Christmas album by a Canadian singer-songwriter Meaghan Smith.

Jan Werner Danielsen

On the Christmas-concert tour in 2004 he now was a solo artist and the Norwegian Bishop Rosemarie Köhn was with him on selected concerts.

Johann Rall

The Hessians had supposedly let their guard down to celebrate the Christmas holiday, and Rall himself was misled by John Honeyman, a spy of Washington who convincingly posed as a loyalist.

John Kendrick Bangs

Thurlow's Christmas Story (1894)
In 2009, The Library of America selected this story for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub.

Jonathan Watson

A Christmas 2012 object of his satire was Donald Trump of whom Watson commented "mastering the billionaire's hairstyle was harder than getting the voice right".

Karen Dunbar

Over Christmas 2007, Dunbar made her first appearance in pantomime, at the King's Theatre in Glasgow, playing Nanny Begood in Sleeping Beauty.

Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition

Team leader Felicity Aston, of the United Kingdom, explained: "Half of the team don’t usually celebrate Christmas so the others are having great fun teaching them Christmas songs and explaining why they have to hang their smelly socks outside the tent on Christmas Eve".

Kris Kringle

Christkind or Christkindl, the Austrian and German Christmas gift-bringer, the Christ Child

Lego Minecraft

Mashable listed the first Lego Minecraft set as a creative gift for the 2012 Christmas season.

Lower Than Atlantis

The track was also featured in the Christmas episode of Made in Chelsea.

Michael Roberds

He performed the role of Big Bird in the school play "Christmas on Sesame Street" at age five.

Natalia Tena

She hosted a behind-the-scenes featurette entitled "Trailing Tonks" for the subsequent DVD and Blu-ray release, and is credited as producer and director of the featurette, in which she also performs an original Christmas-themed blues song on guitar, which she composed while working as a busker on the London Underground.

Poets' Club

The Club produced several anthologies; the first two being — For Christmas MDCCCCVIII (January 1909) and The Book of the Poets' Club (December 1909).

Rodolfo Morales

In 1965 while organizing a Christmas party at the home of a sculptor friend, Geles Cabrera, he used collages as decorations.

Rosemary Leach

In 1982 she played Aunt Fenny in The Jewel in the Crown and 1986 in a Jack Rosenthal British television Christmas play Day To Remember.

Ruth Christmas

In her favoured distance of 880-yards or 800-metres, Christmas had a longstanding rivalry with Gladys Lunn, and finally beat her in the 1933 British Championships.

Stilian Ivanov

A film about Lili Ivanova – “Privately with Lili”, broadcast on the Christmas TV special of BNT.

The Invisible Band

"Flowers in the Window" is featured in the 2004 film Saved!, second-season episode of Merseybeat (2002), and as background music during a scene of the 2002 Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special "Strangers on the Shore".

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The song "Sing" is featured in the 2002 film Mr. Deeds and in the 2003 Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special "Sleepless in Peckham".

The Lana Sisters

They appeared on the BBC's Drumbeat with Adam Faith and John Barry, and later took part in a Christmas special "Tommy Steele’s Spectacular" with the song "Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat".

The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas

The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas is a 1968 Christmas album by Frank Sinatra and featuring his children, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Nancy Sinatra, and Tina Sinatra.

Thee Majesty

Mary Never Wanted Jesus was a special Christmas-themed limited release that contains some different tracks and running orders on the vinyl and CD versions.

Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper

When Huckleberry Hound and his friends Hokey Wolf, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber visit Jellystone Park for Christmas, they discover Yogi Bear and Boo Boo have escaped from Jellystone and hidden out in a department store, where Yogi is posing as a Santa Claus.

You Would Have Loved This

You Would Have Loved This is Tarja's second solo single which is a dedication to her mother and predates the release of her Christmas album, Henkäys Ikuisuudesta.

Zack Ward

He is known for his character Dave Scovil (Titus's stoner half-brother) on the FOX show Titus and as the bully Scut Farkus in the 1983 perennial Christmas movie A Christmas Story.

Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York

Produced by Elena Beloff, co-produced by Ken Christmas and Vincent D'Onofrio, cinematography by Eun-ah Lee; film editing by Ben Abrams; original music by Oliver James and Robert Eldridge, additional music by Tony Sokol and the song "Budem Vmeste" was written by Elena Beloff and produced by Tony Sokol and Joe Bohmer.