* Poodle pins, Christmas tree pins, and other Christmas jewelry

A main agricultural industry in the area is Christmas tree farming.

The second one happens on the evening of 24 December ; gifts are placed under the Christmas tree, usually in the absence of Santa-believing children ( many of whom are occupied with watching the sky in search of the first star ) if there are any in the family.

The remainder of the evening is given to stories and songs around the Christmas tree.

A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer such as pine or fir, traditionally associated with the celebration of Christmas.

An artificial Christmas tree is an object made to resemble such a tree, usually made from polyvinyl chloride ( PVC ).

The custom of the Christmas tree developed in early modern Germany with predecessors that can be traced to the 16th and possibly the 15th century.

The Christmas tree has also been known as the " Yule-tree ", especially in discussions of its folkloristic origins.

While it is clear that the Christmas tree originates in Renaissance and early modern Germany, there are a number of speculative theories as to its ultimate origin.

Like the Christmas crib, the Paradise tree was later placed in homes.

A Bremen guild chronicle of 1570 reports that a small tree decorated with " apples, nuts, dates, pretzels and paper flowers " was erected in the guild-house for the benefit of the guild members ' children, who collected the dainties on Christmas Day.

Die Gartenlaube ( 1871 ) showing " the German Christmas tree " ( Der deutsche Weihnachtsbaum ) in a field hospital in Versailles after the Franco-Prussian War.

The Christmas tree remained confined to the upper Rhineland for a relatively long time.

In the 19th century, the Christmas tree was taken to be an expression of German culture and of Gemütlichkeit, especially among emigrants overseas.

The Queen Victoria | Queen's Christmas tree at Windsor Castle published in the Illustrated London News, 1848, and republished in Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia in December 1850.

Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg introduced the Christmas tree to Vienna in 1816, and the custom spread across Austria in the following years.

In France, the first Christmas tree was introduced in 1840 by the duchesse d ' Orléans.

In Denmark a Danish newspaper claims that the first attested Christmas tree was lit in 1808 by countess Wilhemine of Holsteinborg.

It was the aging countess who told the story of the first Danish Christmas tree to the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen in 1865.

He had published a fairy-tale called The Fir-Tree in 1844, recounting the fate of a fir-tree being used as a Christmas tree.

At the end of that century the U. S. ornithologist Frank Chapman, an officer in the recently formed National Audubon Society, proposed counting birds on Christmas instead of killing them.

Tippin switched to Lyric Street Records in 1998, where he recorded four more studio albums, counting a compilation of Christmas music.

The song's origins and age are uncertain: however, a counting song with similar lyrics, but without the ' Green grow the rushes ' chorus, was being sung by English children in the earlier half of the 19th century By 1868 several variant and somewhat garbled versions were being sung by street children as Christmas carols.

Beginning on the first day of December, one door is opened each day, counting down the days remaining until Christmas Eve, from one to twenty-four where the 24th door often holds an extra surprise like an extra large piece of chocolate.

These are often aimed at children who are counting down to Christmas and the arrival of Santa Claus, and have often been criticized for not relating to the Nativity and simply cashing in on Christmas sales.

He has also recorded a total of eleven studio albums, counting a Christmas album and a compilation of lullabies, in addition to releasing a Greatest Hits compilation, a live album, and a live CD / DVD package.

The serjeanty of holding the king's head when he made a rough passage across the Channel, of pulling a rope when his vessel landed, of counting his chessmen on Christmas day, of bringing fuel to his castle, of doing his carpentry, of finding his potherbs, of forging his irons for his ploughs, of tending his garden, of nursing the hounds gored and injured in the hunt, of serving as veterinary to his sick falcons, such and many others might be the ceremonial or menial services due from a given serjeanty.

Due to several long chart runs, only 12 singles topped the chart this year ( not counting the Queen single, which was a holdover from Christmas 1991 ), the lowest number since 1962, which also saw 12.

As " Bohemian Rhapsody " had previously hit the top in 1975 ( also becoming the Christmas number one ) it became the first song ever, not counting re-entries, to hit number 1 twice.

They also released ten albums, counting a Christmas album, for the Warner Bros. Records label.

At Christmas 1196, Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI attempted to force Alexios III to pay him a tribute of 5, 000 pounds ( later negotiated down to 1, 600 pounds ) of gold or face invasion.

After successful parachute deployment and less than fourteen minutes after reentry began, the Command Module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Christmas Island 290 hours, 37 minutes, 6 seconds after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center.

Traditionally, Father Christmas comes down the chimney to put presents under the Christmas tree or in children's rooms, in their stockings.

During the Christmas of 1985, Neil Newell, an avid MUD1 player, started programming his own MUD called SHADES because MUD1 was closed down during the holidays.

Ways to celebrate holidays may be passed down as traditions, as in this Polish Christmas meal and decorations

In 2007's Christmas special " Voyage of the Damned ", the TARDIS is hit in mid-flight, creating a large hole in the interior wall, although its shields are down at the time.

Although often conceived as awaiting the coming of the Christ-child at Christmas, the modern Lectionary points the season more toward eschatological themes — awaiting the final coming of Christ, when " the wolf shall live with the lamb " ( Isaiah 11: 6 ) and when God will have " brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly " ( The Magnificat, Luke 1: 52 )— particularly in the earlier half of the season.

In this program, underprivileged children write down a wish they have for Christmas and tie them onto the Christmas tree, each member of the church then takes the wish and buys the gift for the child.

Unable to return the unsold games to defunct publishers after Christmas 1982, toy stores marked down the titles and placed them in discount bins and sale tables.

The mistletoe that is commonly used as a Christmas decoration in North America ( Phoradendron flavescens ) grows as a parasite on trees in the west as also in those growing in a line down the east from New Jersey to Florida.

He doesn't live on the North Pole, but perhaps in a forest nearby, or in Denmark he lives on Greenland, and in Finland he lives in Lapland ; he doesn ’ t come down the chimney at night, but through the front door, delivering the presents directly to the children, just like the Yule Goat did ; he is not overweight ; and even if he nowadays sometimes rides in a sleigh drawn by reindeer, instead of just walking around with his sack, his reindeer don ’ t fly-and in Sweden, Denmark and Norway some still put out a bowl of porridge for him on Christmas Eve.

Visitors stroll down Main Street surrounded by the sights and sounds of Christmas.

The Christmas Parade proceeds down South Broad Street around noon, starting at Brevard High School and ending at Brevard College.

Second Saturday in December: Christmas Lights the Night Santa comes to Myrtle Point with Visits beginning at noon at Sempert's Drug Store and then evey hour and a half at other merchants down Spruce Street.

Since 1947, the Berwick Christmas Boulevard, created by the Jaycees, displays over a mile long Christmas show of lights and displays down Market Street.

In 1951 Alfred Colby Hockings and his wife — he was a well-known illustrator for Field and Stream magazine, originally from Wisconsin but most recently living in the artists ' community of Tryon, North Carolina —- built a home up the street from the Gasques and Sorrys and across from the Baarslags ; at almost the same time another Dutch family — Gerbrand and Nellie Poster, the son-in-law and daughter of the Baarslags, came down from New York City to visit her parents for Christmas, decided to stay, and built a home next door to her parents.

In spite of the 1962 animated feature Gay Purr-ee ( distributed by Warner Bros .), which featured the voices of Judy Garland and Robert Goulet and a Harold Arlen / Yip Harburg song score, and the beloved animated special Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, UPA was shut down in 1964.

The dance scene during the Halloween party is a parody of the dance scene in A Charlie Brown Christmas right down to Kang and Kodos in a non-speaking cameo as the twins 3 and 4.

Many titles help to define the mythical aspects of modern Christmas celebration: Santa Claus bringing presents, coming down the chimney, being pulled by reindeer, etc.

Eventually they end up moving to distant Impivaara in the middle of relative wilderness, but their first efforts are shoddy — one Christmas Eve they end up burning down their new house.

The practice to celebrate Christmas with a decorated Christmas Cracker at each table setting was born and it became a time-honored established tradition passed down continuously from generation to generation of families not only in England but in Great Britain and other parts of the World.