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 The
City of Burbank
Celebrates
Seasons Greetings From
Us
Wacky Holiday Facts
~ Winter was a time of celebration to pre-Christian Romans and they
decorated fir trees in honor of this
seasonal change.
~ The use of a Holiday wreath as a decoration on your front door, mantel or
bay window symbolizes a sign of welcome and long life to all who enter.
~Today poinsettias are the most popular Holiday plant and are the number one
flowering potted plant in the United States.
~ Real Holiday trees are an all-American product, grown in all 50 states,
including Alaska and Hawaii.
Most artificial trees are manufactured in Korea, Taiwan, or Hong Kong.
~ For every real Holiday tree harvested, 2 to 3 seedlings are planted in its
place.
~ In 1836, Alabama is the first state in the USA to declare Christmas a
legal holiday.
~ The biggest selling Holiday music single of all time is Bing Crosby's
White Christmas.
~ Due to the time zones, Santa has 31 hours to deliver gifts? This means
that he would have to visit 832 homes each second!
~ In 1937, the first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in
Austria.
~ For every real Christmas tree harvested, 2 to 3 seedlings are planted in
its place. Each hectare provides the daily oxygen requirements of 45 people.
~ Epiphany, 6th January, is the traditional end of the Christmas holiday and
is the date on which we take down the tree and decorations. To do so earlier
is thought to bring bad luck for the rest of the year. From the middle ages
until the mid-nineteenth century, Twelfth Night was more popular than
Christmas day, and even today some countries celebrate Epiphany as the most
important day of the Christmas season.
~ Three years after Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb in 1879,
Edward H. Johnson, who worked for Edison's company, had Christmas tree bulbs
especially made for him. He proudly displayed his electric tree lights at
his home on Fifth Avenue, New York City. They caused a sensation although
some years were to pass before mass-manufactured Christmas tree lights were
widely available.
~ In America in 1822, the postmaster of Washington, DC, complained that he
had to add 16 mailmen at Christmas to deal with cards alone. He wanted the
number of cards a person could send limited by law. "I don't know what we'll
do if this keeps
on," he wrote.
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