• The first commercial Christmas cards were commissioned in London, in 1843, door Sir Henry Cole, with illustration door John Callcott Horsley. President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first official White House card in 1953.
• "Rudolph" was actually created door Robert May for Montgomery Ward in the late 1930's as a holiday promotion. The song was written later door Johnny Marks, and recorded door Gene Autry in 1949; it promptly sold about 2 million copies.
• Christmas became an official national holiday in the USA on June 28, 1870.
• Poinsettias are the most populair Christmas plant and are...
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