| operations |
| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"christmas",<br>"author":"leader1971",<br>"permlink":"shocking-christmas-facts-or-things-you-don-t-know-about-christmas",<br>"title":"Shocking !!! #Christmas #Facts | Things You Don't Know About Christmas",<br>"body":"<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/216rnD7_mzU\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\nHello Friends\nIn this video,<br> i will share some very interesting facts about Christmas. Make sure you like the video and share with your friends as well. \n\nIt\u2019s technically illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day in England. In the 17th century,<br> Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas pudding,<br> mince pies and anything to do with gluttony. The law has never been rescinded.\n\nWhy red,<br> gold and green? Green has long been a symbol of life and rebirth; red symbolizes the blood of Christ,<br> and gold represents light as well as wealth and royalty.\n\nSanta hasn\u2019t always dressed in red. Pre 1930s there were many different variations of Santa,<br> sporting a variety of different colored garments and ranging in size from big to small. Some people claim the modern day image of Santa Claus was created by Coca-Cola\n\nUS scientists calculated that Santa would have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all the world\u2019s presents on Christmas Eve,<br> traveling at 650 miles a second.\n\nThe abbreviation Xmas isn\u2019t irreligious. The letter X is a Greek abbreviation for Christ.\n\nA large part of Sweden\u2019s population watches Donald Duck cartoons every Christmas Eve \u2013 a tradition that started in 1960.\n\nThe most popular Christmas Song ever is We Wish You a Merry Christmas.[9 The song can be traced back to England,<br> but its author and composer remains unknown\n\nIf Christmas is the celebration of Jesus' birth,<br> and Christmas is always on Dec. 25,<br> then Jesus was born on Dec. 25,<br> right? Nope. No one knows for sure when Jesus was born. The Bible mentions neither a month nor a date. Yet while Jesus may have been born on Dec. 25,<br> it's highly unlikely,<br> at least according to Biblical interpretations [source: Christian Answers . Here's why.\n\nFirst,<br> the Bible mentions that during Jesus' birth,<br> shepherds were in their fields. But it's cold in Bethlehem in December,<br> and nothing much grows in the fields,<br> so shepherds sheltered their sheep around that time of year and stayed inside. The Bible also says Mary and Joseph were traveling to take part in a census. But back in Jesus' time,<br> censuses were normally held in September or October -- after the fall harvest,<br> yet before the harsh winter made travel difficult [sources: Christian Answers,<br> Boyett .\n\nFinally,<br> while Easter was celebrated by the earliest Christians,<br> Jesus' birth wasn't considered a special day until about the fourth century,<br> when the church wanted some kind of celebration to take the focus away from the winter solstice celebrations favored by the pagans. Voil\u00e0 -- the church proclaimed Jesus' birth date as Dec. 25,<br> and it became a major Christian celebration. Most scholars,<br> incidentally,<br> agree Jesus was likely born near the end of September,<br> based on a host of additional Biblical clues.",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"christmas\",<br>\"shocking\",<br>\"facts\",<br>\"steem\",<br>\"steemit\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/216rnD7_mzU\/0.jpg\" ,<br>\"links\":[\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/216rnD7_mzU\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " | | vote | "voter":"leader1971",
"author":"leader1971",
"permlink":"shocking-christmas-facts-or-things-you-don-t-know-about-christmas",
"weight":10000 |
|