Christmas - Anita

• Christmas is an annual Christian holiday celebrated on December 25th.
• Early illustrations of St. Nicholas make him out to be a stern symbol of discipline rather than the jolly, overweight elf that children know today.
• All letters addressed to Santa in the United States go to Santa Claus, Indiana.
• There is a village in Peru where people settle the previous year's grudges by fist fighting. They then start the new year off on a clean slate.
• Nearly all of the most popular Christmas songs including ‘Winter Wonderland’, ‘Chestnuts roasting…’, and ‘I’m Dreaming of a white Christmas’ were written by Jewish people.
• During the Christmas of 1914 (World War 1), a truce was held between Germany and the UK. They decorated their shelters, exchanged gifts across no man’s land and played a game of football between themselves.
• In 1918 and for the past 40 years, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has sent the city of Boston a giant Christmas tree as a thank you for their support after the 1917 Halifax explosion.