In the UK, it was a custom for tradesmen to collect " Christmas boxes " of money or presents on the first weekday after Christmas as thanks for good service throughout the year.

This custom is linked to an older English tradition: Since they would have to wait on their masters on Christmas Day, the servants of the wealthy were allowed the next day to visit their families.

The custom of Christmas night liturgy was introduced in the Christian churches after the second half of the 5th century.

General Krulak attracted some attention during his tenure as commandant by his custom of delivering Christmas cookies to each marine duty post in the Washington area.

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

In Britain, the Christmas tree was introduced in the time of the personal union with Hanover, by George III's Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in early 19th century, but the custom hadn't yet spread much beyond the royal family.

Queen Victoria as a child was familiar with the custom and a tree was placed in her room every Christmas.

John Brand's Popular Antiquities ( 1859 ) describes a custom in Kent of ' going a hodening ' at Christmas, going round the houses in procession and singing carols, accompanied by a sort of hobby-horse.

In the most traditional of the Catalan homes, the old custom of " fer cagar el tió " is still followed for Christmas.

In some way that is not presently understood, this may have led to the widespread custom of kissing under the mistletoe plant during the Christmas season.

According to custom, the mistletoe must not touch the ground between its cutting and its removal as the last of Christmas greens at Candlemas ; it may remain hanging through the year, often to preserve the house from lightning or fire, until it is replaced the following Christmas Eve.

According to ancient Christmas custom, a man and a woman who meet under a hanging of mistletoe were obliged to kiss.

His only " Christmas gift " is allowing his overworked, underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off with pay-which he does only to keep with social custom, Scrooge considering it " a poor excuse for picking a man ’ s pocket every twenty-fifth of December!

The Japanese have a custom of sending to their friends and relatives, similar to the Western custom of sending Christmas cards.

Town musicians or ' waits ' were licensed to collect money in the streets in the weeks preceding Christmas, the custom spread throughout the population by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up to the present day.

Traditionally, Eastern churches celebrated Epiphany ( or Theophany ) in conjunction with Christ's baptism by John the Baptist and celebrated it on January 19 ; however, many have begun to adopt the Western custom of celebrating it on January 6, the twelfth day of Christmas.

" This liturgical day is followed for all days in the Eastern rite and the custom of beginning Christmas celebration ( as well as Sunday and the other major festivals ) in the preceding evening is preserved in western Churches that have altered the liturgical day to start at midnight, for example the Roman Catholic Church.

Although pre-Christmas fasting is not a popular custom still practiced, Italian-Americans still enjoy meatless Christmas Eve feast and attend the Midnight Mass.

Hope's jokes were monitored by the State Department to avoid offending the Saudis ... and the media was restricted from covering the shows ... Because in Saudi Arabia national custom prescribes that women must be veiled in public, Ann Jillian, Marie Osmond, and the Pointer Sisters were left off Hope's Christmas Eve show.

The custom of Christmas stockings springs from a legend of St. Nicholas, in which he threw gold in the stockings of three poor sisters, thus providing for their dowries.

The hypothesis that the Ancient Roman custom of crucifixion may have developed out of a primitive custom of arbori suspendere — hanging on an arbor infelix ( unfortunate tree ) dedicated to the gods of the nether world — is rejected by William A. Oldfather, who shows that this form of execution ( the supplicium more maiorum, punishment in accordance with the custom of our ancestors ) consisted of suspending someone from a tree, not dedicated to any particular gods, and flogging him to death.

" Here, when a sacrifice had been prepared to Jove, according to the custom of their land, and when the ancient altar glowed with fire, the Greeks observed an azure colored snake crawling up in a plane tree near the place where they had just begun their sacrifice.

From almost the beginning of Mars ' city the custom of New Year's gifts ( strenae ) prevailed on account of the precedent of king Tatius who was the first to reckon the holy branches ( verbenae ) of a fertile tree ( arbor felix ) in Strenia's grove as the auspicious signs of the new year.

The processors in a CS-2 were connected by a Meiko-designed multi-stage packet-switched " fat tree " network implemented in custom silicon.

Joseph of Arimathea, before Jesus has been crucified, asks for his body, and Herod says he is going to take it down to comply with the Jewish custom of not leaving a dead body hung on a tree overnight.

The custom of attaining lustration and fertility by passing under a gap in rocks, a hole in the soil or a hollow in a tree is widespread.

The custom of employing the flowering branches for decorative purposes on 1 May is of very early origin ; but since the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752, the tree has rarely been in full bloom in England before the second week of that month.

This is in fact a watered-down version of the earlier custom ( abandoned at the beginning of the 20th century due to its obvious danger ) in which a more substantial fire was lit with damp straw beneath a tree.

In remembrance of this event, there has been a custom of plucking the leaves of the Aapati tree, and then people present these leaves to one another as gold.

In 1889 Caroline Harrison raised the first Christmas tree in the White House, as the custom was becoming more popular.

For example, consider a comprehensive web-based thesaurus service that uses a large red-black tree to store its list of synonym relationships, and that allows each user to add their own custom words to their personal thesaurus.

One way to do this is to make a copy of the tree for each user, and then add their custom words to it ; however, this duplication is wasteful, both of space and of time.

Then, one can simply take the original version and produce a new tree based on it for each set of custom words.

Because these new trees share large amounts of structure with the main tree, the space overhead for each additional user is at most, where is the number of custom nodes.

The custom of tying a yellow ribbon around a tree to symbolize waiting love seems to go back at least as far as the days of Nero.

The tree is California Historical Landmark No. 2 ( number 1 is the custom house in Monterey ).

The doctrine of precedent developed during the 12th and 13th centuries, as the collective judicial decisions that were based in tradition, custom and precedent.

He developed the position that mental behaviour is governed by " custom ", that is acquired ability ; our use of induction, for example, is justified only by our idea of the " constant conjunction " of causes and effects.

Within this basic structure, the author traces the way the Persians developed a custom of conquest and shows how their habits of thinking about the world finally brought about their downfall in Greece.

As Economy became more technologically developed, Harmonites began to hire others from outside the Society, especially when their numbers decreased because of the custom of celibacy and as they eventually let fewer new members join.

Local variations of the custom were developed in different parts of England and Wales.

In the Russian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ruthenian Catholic Church, Polish, Bavarian and Austrian Roman Catholics, and various other Eastern European peoples, the custom developed of using pussy willow instead of palm fronds because the latter are not readily available that far north.

Together they developed software and hardware implementations of the algorithm, including a custom VLSI chip.

Anyway, arising from an improvisatory beginning ( both tragedy and comedy — tragedy from the leaders of the dithyramb, and comedy from the leaders of the phallic processions which even now continue as a custom in many of our cities ), grew little by little, as poets developed whatever part of it had appeared ; and, passing through many changes, tragedy came to a halt, since it had attained its own nature.

The Hobbits of the Shire developed the custom of giving away gifts on their birthdays, instead of receiving them, although this custom was not universally followed among other Hobbit cultures or communities.

In addition, both licensees developed custom applications for microbanking, traffic police, and medical applications.

Thus a tradition developed to avoid these products altogether, and this eventually developed into what most of the European Jewish community accepted upon themselves as a minhag, a legally binding custom.

Today's Seal of the President of the United States, which developed by custom over a long period before being defined in law, is a more full-featured version of the Great Seal.

Because Muslim authorities refused to permit Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, the custom developed of praying near the Western Wall, since it was the site nearest to the Foundation Stone, or on the Mount of Olives facing the site of the Temple.

From the layering of the palace Evans developed de novo an archaeological concept of the civilization that used it, which he called Minoan, following the pre-existing custom of labelling all objects from the location Minoan.

Other companies entered the market, notably Standard Microsystems who produced systems based on a single VLSI chip, originally developed as custom LSI for Datapoint, but later made available by Standard Microsystems to other customers.

In particular, the custom of dressing up in costumes and going " guising " or trick-or-treating at Halloween developed from Christian customs created in Western Europe around the 15th century.

Each recorder consisted of a modified IVC model 826P open-reel 1-inch VTR, connected to a custom codec unit with time code capability ( using a proprietary time code developed by Decca ), as well as outboard DAC and ADC units connected to the codec unit.

Together with the Kol Nidre another custom was developed, which is traced to Meir of Rothenburg ( d. 1293 ).

Since there are almost never two production pipelines that are the same, custom tools always need to be developed to address problems in the production process, e. g. to address image manipulation issue.