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2. Christmas lights - Wikipedia

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   Christmas lights in Verona, Italy. Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree with lights in London, England. Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights, festive lights or string lights) are lights often used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide.

3. Nativity scene - Wikipedia

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   Detail of an elaborate Neapolitan presepio in Rome. In the Christian tradition, a nativity scene (also known as a manger scene, crib, crèche ( / krɛʃ / or / kreɪʃ / ), or in Italian presepio or presepe, or Bethlehem) is the special exhibition, particularly during the Christmas season, of art objects representing the birth of Jesus. [ 1][ 2 ...

4. Bentleyville Tour of Lights - Wikipedia

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   Bentleyville "Tour of Lights" is one of America's largest free walk-through lighting displays. [1] [2] [3] It is located in Duluth, Minnesota and runs annually from November 21 to December 27. The 2020 season of the attraction introduced a new drive-through layout, to better fit and help with restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic , and ...

5. Christmas tree (drag racing) - Wikipedia

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   Christmas tree (drag racing) A pre-2011 CompuLink drag racing Christmas Tree as currently in use on the Curacao International Raceway. Modern drag races are started electronically by a system known as a Christmas tree. A common Christmas tree consists of a column of seven lights for each driver or lane. Each side of the column of lights is the ...

6. Festival of Lights (Lyon) - Wikipedia

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   The Festival of Lights ( French: Fête des lumières) in Lyon, France, is a popular event that originally aimed at expressing gratitude toward Mary, mother of Jesus around December 8 of each year. [ 2] This unique Lyonnaise tradition dictates that every house place candles along the outsides of all the windows to produce a spectacular effect ...

7. Icelandic Christmas folklore - Wikipedia

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   Icelandic Christmas folklore depicts mountain-dwelling characters and monsters who come to town during Christmas. The stories are directed at children and are used to scare them into good behavior. The folklore includes mischievous pranksters who leave gifts at night and monsters who eat disobedient children. The figures are depicted as living ...

8. Christmas in Mexico - Wikipedia

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   Christmas in Mexico. Part of a nativity scene from the Church of the Company of Jesus in the city of Oaxaca. Joseph and Mary are dressed in Oaxacan clothing. The Nochebuena ( poinsettia) is native to Mexico and is widely used as a decoration during Christmas time. Christmas in Mexico is observed from December 12 to January 6, with one ...

9. Christmas - Wikipedia

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   The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. [3] The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. [4] Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ ‎ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; [5] [6] and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the ...