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One holiday traditions I really enjoy is when my parents wake me and siblings up to have a nice relaxing Christmas breakfast.

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the thing I love about Christmas is that we get to see our family and have a Christmas dinner and love opening presents

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What i  like about Criticism is family and francs

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My favorite things to do during Christmas is spending time with my family also I like opening my presents.

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My favorite thing about Christmas is opening present and spending time with family and friends.

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What I like about

Christmas is I get to be with my family and play in the and open gifts

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On Christmas I meet with my family,    and open presents. The we meet up again for diner.

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What I like about Christmas is when I wake up that's what I like about Chistmas

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My name is aci I live in the USA. I celebrate Christmas  by spending time with family and giving people  gifts .

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My favorite thing about christmas is about going down the gigantic sleding hill and having snowball fights with friends.

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My favorite tradition for Christmas is, on Christmas eve drinking hot coco, eating cookies, and reading The Night Before Christmas.

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My favorite Christmas tradition is hanging decorations on the tree and I also like getting together with family and opening presents!

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The thing that I like about christmas is we meet our family and open the christmas gifts.

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am from the us and my favorite Holiday is crestmes becues we get to wake up in the mrening and thare presints and santa gets to eat cookies and milk

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I am from Kentukey the things i like i to do in christmas is opening presents and sing carols it is so fun doing this stuff in kentukey. it is so fun but the most fun thing i like to do is speeding time with my family. and i love playing games on christmas eve we go to my grandmothers house to open a little presents on chirstmas day we open way more presents.

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i am from the usa i am in kentucky my favoritething about christmas is being with my family and the snow and sleds i like playing with my cosins when it is snowing.

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I am from the USA and I still live in the USA. My favorite thing to do in Christmas is decorate the tree! I also like to do making cookies for santa then putting them out for santa! We also put out carrots for his raindeer! Are hole family does this we stand out side and and see if we can see santa and his raindeer!

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i am from America but i live in Burlington  my favorite  Christmas tradition is hanging ornaments on the tree and opening presents on Christmas eve  in the morning my mom takes a picture  of  me and the toy i got for Christmas.

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I am from USA and i live in Kentucky. The things i do on Christmas is sometimes celebrate a holiday i made up called Pizza Christmas. We always put a little bit of icing and sprinkles on a pizza and it taste like a cake!!!!

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I am from the U.S.A. My favorite thing to do on Christmas is spending time with my family. Second is opening presents with my family. Third is eating my dad would make turkey or ham, but this year he's making stake. After that I play with the other kids in my family it's really fun most of the time. On Christmas Eve I go to church in the morning worship the birth of Jesus and God.

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I'm from the USA. My favorite thing is to decorate the tree and my houes.

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My favorite thing about Christmas is opening presents and spending time with my family. My family celebrate's Christmas because of the birth of Jesus .The reason we celebrate the birth of Jesus is because we go to church.we go to church on Christmas night to wait for Jesus they say he will come and I believe them.And I love the joy of all the presents that you get.the one thing i want the most is a soccer goal in my backyard.I love eating on Christmas with all my friends.We all get to play with each other in my basement the boys most times play on there ipads all night on Roblox.Roblox is a game were you are a little person playing tycoons and

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I am from Kentucky the things i like in Christmas are spending time with my family and have yourself a merry Christmas.

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I live in Kentucky. my favorite thing to do on Christmas is open presents and eat good good food.

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I am from the  USA and i live in the USA my favorite thing to do during the Christmas time s to make gingerbread houses and seeing my cosins from pynnclevanya and we go to are grandmas house we do fun activities! Also i like when we open presents!!

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I am from USA and i still live in the USA. my favorite thing that i do is go to the zoo and see lights!!!!

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i am from the USA but i live in burlington what i do for christmas is have a party at my house or some ones elses house we pute a candy cane  in a tree how ever finds it gets to open thar presents frist on chrismas day we stay in are rooms tell m mom and dad coms out we get dress in clothing fancy clothing and when thay wack up thay giv u are stokings and we go down stars and open gifts.

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I am from USA but I live in burlington. the things I like to do on Christmas is to get gifts for my family. and to open presnts.

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I am from usa but i live in burlington kentucky .My favorite holiday tradition is going to the festival of lights.

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My favorite thing about Christmas is that I get to go to my Grandmas house and open presents and get to play games with family and friends.And  if there's snow sometimes we go outside and play in that snow.And I like to decorate Christmas trees.

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I am from the Philippines and Norway but I live in Singapore. The things that I like to do on Christmas is go shopping with my Mom and buy presents for my family. Second thing I like to do on Christmas is go to my church worship team where we praise God and celebrate his  birth. Third thing that I like to do for Christmas is unwrapping presents because it is fun.

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I am from USA but I live in Singapore. My favorite thing to do in Christmas is to decorating the Christmas tree and making decorations! :)http://cdn.touropia.com/gfx/d/famous-streets-in-the-world/orchard_road.jpg?v=f4ee0d422eceb6c329e6c01b9b342670

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I am from India, but I live in Singapore. My favorite thing to do at Christmas is to go Christmas shopping with my Mom to see all the pretty decorations to buy and people looking around at the decorative ornaments. I also enjoy walking around Orchard Road because during Christmas, they put such beautiful ornaments!

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I am from Malaysia and I am also from China as well, however I live in Singapore with my grandma and my mom. My favorite tradition for Christmas is decorating the Christmas tree with my family members and my friends.

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I am from Japan, but I live in Singapore. My favorite tradition for Christmas is when I decorate the Christmas tree with my family. We always have a lot of ornaments so it fills the whole Christmas tree.

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I am come from Korea, but I live in Singapore. My favourite thing that doing at Christmas is play with friend and We are decorate my Christmas tree.

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I am from China and Netherland but I live in Singapore, my favorite Christmas tradition is having fun with my family.

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I am from The Philippines and America but I live in Singapore. My favorite thing to do in Christmas is to go Christmas shopping.

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The National Christmas Tree Association reports that Americans will purchase approximately 40 million Christmas trees this holiday season. While they are the centerpieces of yuletide celebrations today, Christmas trees have had a relatively short history in the United States-and you might be surprised by the person responsible for popularizing the holiday tradition in America.

Long before the advent of Christmas-and even before the birth of Christ-ancient civilizations embraced evergreen boughs, wreaths and garlands as symbols of eternal life amid the darkest days of the winter solstice. From these pagan roots sprouted the modern Christmas tree. The first recorded display of a decorated Christmas tree has been traced to Riga, Latvia, in 1510, and the custom proliferated in 16th- and 17th-century Germany as Protestant elites bedecked their homes and guildhalls with pines and firs garnished with nuts, dates and apples.

Christmas trees grew in popularity in Germany throughout the early 1800s, and German immigrants to the United States brought the yuletide tradition with them to their new homeland. In his book "The Battle for Christmas," Stephen Nissenbaum writes that, in spite of claims that Hessian soldiers fighting for the British during the Revolutionary War erected the first Christmas trees in America, it was the Pennsylvania German community, likely after 1820, who first brought the custom to the United States.

It wasn't until a famed British monarch gave her royal stamp of approval, however, that the Christmas tree became an American holiday staple. Although she was the longest-reigning monarch in British history, Queen Victoria had German blood coursing through her veins, and German traditions thrived in the British royal palaces. Queen Charlotte, Victoria's grandmother and the German-born wife of King George III, had erected Christmas trees at Windsor Castle as early as 1800. Victoria's mother was German-born as well, and the young princess had a small tree, decorated with candles and sugar ornaments, in her palace quarters every Christmas. Three years after ascending to the throne in 1837, Queen Victoria married Prince Albert, a German import himself, and the monarch encouraged her consort to adorn Windsor Castle at Christmastime according to his boyhood customs. The prince imported firs directly from the forests of his homeland and decorated them with trinkets, toys, gifts and edibles. He hoped to pass his holiday traditions down to his royal offspring, writing in 1847, that he hoped his children's "delight in the Christmas-trees is not less than ours used to be."

What happened behind palace doors during the holidays, however, didn't become public fodder until the London Illustrated News published a special 16-page Christmas supplement to its December 23, 1848, edition. Amid Dickensian scenes of carolers and women slaving over Christmas pudding was a woodcut entitled "Christmas Tree at Windsor Castle." The illustration depicted Victoria, Albert, five of their children and a governess gathered around a table-top evergreen adorned with sweets and ornaments, illuminated by candles and topped by an angel. Unwrapped presents-dolls, mounted cavalrymen and a figurine in a horse-drawn chariot-encircle its base. The tree itself, with six uniformly spaced tiers of boughs, looked too meticulous to be real. It was a depiction of a picture-perfect family Christmas, worthy of a holiday card.

Young Queen Victoria, like some modern-day British royals, was a trendsetter in England-as well as in America. After readers caught eye of the engraving in the London Illustrated News, Christmas trees became widely embraced in the English-speaking world. In fact, the illustration of the Victorian Christmas tree received a second life in America in December 1850 when an altered version of it appeared in the influential monthly magazine Godey's Lady's Book. Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of the taste-shaping publication as well as the reputed author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," pointed to the British queen as a feminist role model. But even she made some alterations to the royal family in the original woodcut in order to give the illustration a distinctively American twist. Gone were Victoria's tiara and Albert's sash and mustache along with boxes of German biscuits under the tree. The caption simply read: "The Christmas Tree." The royal yuletide had been transformed into an All-American Christmas.

And during the rest of the 19th century, an All-American Christmas increasingly came with a fragrant fir inside the house. The Godey's engraving was one of the first widely circulated illustrations of a decorated Christmas tree in the United States, and it was soon followed by similar depictions in Harper's and other major American publications. In 1851, the year following the Christmas tree illustration in Godey's, a woodsman named Mark Carr chopped down a couple dozen evergreens in the Catskill Mountains, transported them by ox sled to Manhattan's Washington Market and quickly sold out his stock. The Christmas tree lot was born. Five years later, President Franklin Pierce erected the first Christmas tree in the White House. (Christmas wasn't even a federal holiday until 1870.) Today, the Christmas tree industry in America is a $1.7 billion business, with approximately 30 million real trees and 10 million artificial trees sold each year-and it all started with a British Queen.

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The Royal Roots of the American Christmas Tree

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The National Christmas Tree Association reports that Americans will purchase approximately 40 million Christmas trees this holiday season. While they are the centerpieces of yuletide celebrations today, Christmas trees have had a relatively short history in the United States-and you might be surprised by the person responsible for popularizing the holiday tradition in America.

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I am from the UK, Holland, Australia, and Northern Ireland but I live in Singapore. My favorite Christmas tradition  is when I go fishing with my grandpa in Australia (in Australia Christmas is in the summertime)

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The Tallebudgera Creek rises from the Springbrook Plateau below Burleigh Mountain in the Springbrook National Park near Upper Tallebudgera and north of the New South Wales/Queensland border. The creek flows generally north by east through the Tallebudgera Valley towards Burleigh Heads where it is crossed by the Pacific Motorway and the Gold Coast Highway, before reaching its mouth south of the Burleigh Head National Park and emptying into the Coral Sea.

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I am from  Indonesia, but I live in Singapore. My favorite tradition for Christmas is when we decorate our tree. I also like it when everyone gathers around the tree, and one person tells how Jesus was born.

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I am from Korea, but I live in Singapore lah. My favorite Christmas thing to do is shopping lah. Lah is Singlish and from mandarin. Get it lah? It is a example lah.

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I am from America and I am also thai but I am living in Singapore . My family's tradition is to decorate the christmas tree and listen to christmas songs. My family is always  together with us. We also unwrap presents.

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I am from India, but now I am living in Singapore. My favourite thing to do is decorate  my house and in India. Also to be free and playing with my friends in India and Singapore!

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I am from Philippines, but I live in Singapore. My favourite thing to do in Christmas is unwrapping presents and buying, wrapping and giving gifts to others.

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I am from America, but I live in Singapore. My favourite Christmas tradition is decorating my parent's house with lots of lights outside for people to enjoy.