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		<title>Traditional Christmas Food</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traditional Christmas Food Traditional Christmas Food In modern times, there are certain foods we associate with Christmas: Roast Turkey or Goose Christmas Cake with marzipan and icing Satsumas Nuts Chestnuts Mulled Wine Sweets But where did all these ideas come from? During the rest of the year, many of these foods aren&#8217;t eaten at all. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immaculate Conception</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immaculate Conception Immaculate Conception The term &#8220;immaculate conception&#8221; is often used, in a general sense, to suggest the conception of a child by a woman who has not engaged in sexual intercourse, and specifically to the conception of Jesus by the Virgin Mary. Both usages are incorrect. &#8220;Immaculate Conception&#8221; refers to neither the conception of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wassailing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wassailing Wassailing Wassail is an Old English term meaning &#8220;to your health&#8221;. Wassailing is one of the oldest traditions and has a huge number of local variations. Its origins are unknown but it is mentioned in texts dating as far back as the 14th century. In one of these texts, the leader of a group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mistletoe Bough 

 a Christma</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mistletoe Bough a Christma The Mistletoe Bough a Christmas horror story Brockdish Hall, a 17 century manor near Diss in Norfolk, is claimed to be where the unfortunate &#39;Mistletoe Bride&#39; met her untimely end. On her wedding night, as part of a hide-and-seek game, a young Christmas bride hid in an old wooden chest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say Merry Christmas in different la</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say Merry Christmas in different la Say Merry Christmas in different languages We know this is silly but we had a lot of fun just trying to say the words&#8230; Afrikaans: Gesëende Kersfees Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees African / Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats Albanian: Gezur Krislinjden Arabic: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah Argentine: Feliz Navidad Armenian: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Carols</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas Carols Christmas Carols Originally, Carols were simply songs that were sung during the midwinter festival. Many popular Christmas carols have origins that pre-date Christianity and vanish into pre-history. The word carol comes from the Greek word Choros meaning a &#34;band of singers and dancers&#34;. It was probably used to describe something that was more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas card history</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas card history Christmas card history The sending of seasonal messages of goodwill is a truly ancient ritual with plenty of practical implications. Isolated villages would send seasonal gifts to their neighbours as it paid to be polite to people who might feed you if supplies ran short. In Pagan Britain, good luck charms were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Tree History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas Tree History Christmas Tree History The tradition of a festive tree has been around since ancient times and has played an important part in winter celebrations for many centuries. Most pagan religions used special trees as part of their rituals. In Northern Europe the Vikings saw evergreen trees as a reminder that the darkness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Glastonbury Thorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Glastonbury Thorn The Glastonbury Thorn There is a tradition that Joseph of Arimathea (the Holy Grail chappie) visited Glastonbury Abbey on one of his business trips to England. Whilst there he stuck his hawthorn stick into the ground and walked away without it. According to legend, the stick had magical properties as it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Decorations and tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas Decorations and tradition Christmas Decorations and traditions &#8211; Christian or Pagan? Yule Logs In early times a Viking mid-winter festival called Yule was combined with Christmas and the pagan Winter Solstice. Converted Norsemen would still have carried out their Scandinavian traditions which were then adopted by the early Christians and are incorporated in our [...]]]></description>
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