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2. Legend of the Christmas Spider - Wikipedia

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   Ukrainians also create small Christmas tree ornaments in the shape of a spider (known as pavuchky, literally "little spiders"), usually made of paper and wire. They also decorate Christmas trees with artificial spider webs. [11] The tradition of using tinsel is also said to be because of this story. [3] [2] [12]

3. Aluminum Christmas tree - Wikipedia

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   The aluminum Christmas tree was used as a symbol of the over-commercialization of Christmas in the 1965 Peanuts holiday special, A Charlie Brown Christmas. [4] The program is considered a classic among Christmas specials , [ 8 ] and its mention of the aluminum tree solidified the tree's legendary status while satirizing it as well. [ 3 ]

4. Hallmark Cards - Wikipedia

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   Hallmark corporate headquarters entrance. Hallmark corporate offices. A Hallmark Store in Toronto Eaton Centre.. Driven by an early 20th-century postcard craze, Joyce Clyde Hall and his older brothers, William and Rollie, began the Norfolk Post Card Company in 1907, initially headquartered in the Norfolk, Nebraska bookstore at which they worked.

5. Christmas - Wikipedia

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   The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. [3] The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. [4] Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ ‎ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; [5] [6] and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the ...

6. Downing Street Christmas tree - Wikipedia

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   The Downing Street Christmas tree and door wreath. The Downing Street Christmas tree is the Christmas tree placed on Downing Street, outside 10 Downing Street, which is the official office and residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It arrives near the end of November and is lit in early December for a live BBC News programme. [1 ...

7. Plastic flamingo - Wikipedia

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   The American artist Don Featherstone designed the pink lawn flamingo in 1957, naming the first Diego. His lawn flamingo, mass-produced by his employer, Union Products, of Leominster, Massachusetts, has since become an icon of pop culture [1] that won him the Ig Nobel Prize for Art in 1996.