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Christmas.

The word "Christmas" is derived from the words "Christ's Mass" - the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

A Christmas tree stands in everybody's living room at Christmas. In fact America adopted it before it found its way to England early in Queen Victoria's reign.

Now every Christmas British people are sent a huge fir tree from Norway which stands in Trafalgar Square, in the centre of London, shining down on all the people who gather on Christmas Eve.

Christmas decoration is a symbol of love and reconciliation.In Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, holly is known as "Christ's thorns", the legend being that Christ wore a crown of holly thorns before his death. Some people have seen associations between the word "holly" and "holy".

William Egley, an English artist, seems to have the best claim. In 1842 he designed his own card and sent it to one hundred of his friends.

Today three billion are sent annually in the United States alone.

MARRY CHRISTMAS!!!