Additional questions
6. Where did Christmas crackers come from?
7. Pere Noel is from what country?
8. In Germany, what is put in a shoe put outside your door on December 5th?
9. When were Christmas trees first used?
10. When did midnight vigil on Christmas Eve begin?
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The Christmas cracker was invented by London-based confectioner and baker Tom Smith (1823 – 1869) who set up shop in Goswell Road, Clerkenwell in the 1840s. Smith initially produced wedding cakes and sweets. On a trip to Paris he discovered the French ‘bon bon’, a sugared almond wrapped in a twist of tissue paper.
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In France, Santa Claus is known as Père Noël, and in the French colonies of The New World, came to be called Papa Noël. Like the French Père Noël, Papa Noël leaves toys for children following Catholic Mass on Christmas Eve.
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In Hamburg and throughout Germany, children leave their shoes near the fireplace or front door on the night of 5 December. The next morning, they should find that their footwear has been filled overnight with small presents and treats by Nikolaus.
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Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition—as we now know it—by the 16th century when sources record devout Christians bringing decorated trees into their homes. Some built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and candles if wood was scarce.
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The tradition of a midnight Vigil on the eve of Christmas began in the East, and was observed in the late fourth century in Jerusalem by a Christian woman named Egeria on the night of January 5. The tradition reached the Western world in the year 430 under Pope Sixtus III in the Basilica of St Mary Major.
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My info. came up with this on the Christmas crackers ->>
Christmas crackers are a traditional Christmas favorite in the UK. They were first made in about 1845-1850 by a London sweet maker called Tom Smith. -
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