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First Christmas season traditions traced through history
The article surveys Christmas firsts from the date setting of December 25 around 320 AD to St Nicholas inspired stockings, trimming trees since the American Revolution, and England’s Round Table feasts. It notes the long life of holly and legends blending with myth, with origins lost and some documented by church records and research.
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