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...President Franklin Pierce set up the first Christmas tree inside the White House, and in 1923 President Calvin Coolidge instituted the custom of lighting a National Christmas Tree on the White House grounds. Three years later the U.S. Department of the Interior named the giant General Grant Sequoia Park in Kings Canyon National Park, Calif., the nation's official Christmas tree...
Christmas cards became popular in the 1860s, when people experimented with sending visiting cards inscribed simply Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. In the late 1800s, the royal family adopted the practice and employed distinguished artists to design the cards. Thereafter the custom spread rapidly across Europe and America...
Early Christians condemned birthday celebrations as a repugnant heathen custom and kept no record of the anniversary of Christ's birth. As late as 245 A.D., the African church father and philosopher Origen wrote that it was sinful even to contemplate observing Jesus's birthday "as though he were a King Pharaoh...
Sally Field prances through the movie in high heels and custom-tailored suits, more concerned with keeping her hair in place than covering all the bases on a story. Her strained toughness-she addresses her "prey" as Gallagher even after her interest in him becomes more than professional--clashes oddly with her naivete, evidenced every time she puts her pert nose to a hot tip. As she stands in her high-tech kitchen blinking longingly at Gallagher, we may believe many things about her. That she is a newspaper reporter is, unfortunately, not one of them...
...fanciful choices of many other grieving pet owners around the U.S. Kitty's resting place is becoming more and more elaborate. At Paw Print Gardens in Chicago, sealable cat caskets range from $39 to $139, and granite grave markers begin at $79, while top-of-the-line custom tablet markers go for more than...