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Every year on the twenty fifth December we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, this day is known as Christmas Day. The word Christmas or 'Christ's Mass' originally comes from the old English name Cristes Maedde. It was in AD440 that the Christian Church fixed a celebration date of December 25th.  
  
It is a special time for family. Many people dwelling in different towns, cities or even international locations will make the journey back residence to spend the festive season with their family.  
  
On Christmas Day they will have a household gathering and a huge dinner consisting of meals resembling turkey, brussell sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce.  
  
Apparently eating turkey on Christmas Day dates back to the Tudor instances and Henry VIII - he was the first man to eat turkey on this day.  
  
Sending Christmas cards is a large part of Christmas, with more than a billion cards being sent in the UK alone. There are many genres of cards ranging from Relation cards for Mum, Dad, Brother Sister and many others to the more humorous type for friends and kinfolk who enjoy an excellent laugh.  
  
Individuals buying cards for Mum often look for the more traditional Christmas card with prolonged, significant versus whereas people looking for Dad cards are inclined to go for Humour.  
  
The push for buying cards and presents typically starts at the finish of November, starting of December. Shopping centres develop into so busy it's generally inconceivable to move! Queues in shops become longer and longer and generally a half hour shopping journey can easily turn into half a day.  
  
Lately with the development of the internet and internet retail corporations it has never been simpler to shop on-line in your Christmas cards and gifts which means avoiding the busying crowds within the high street.  
  
We typically start sending cards at first of December and this continues proper up until the 25th. By mid-December you will usually discover most properties will be decorated with a Christmas tree, vibrant lights and paper or foil hanging decorations across the living room.  
  
Others take things one step further by decorating backyard trees and exterior walls with coloured electric flashing lights and Christmas characters corresponding to Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extremely widespread within the USA and has been for quite some time.  
  
Santa Claus additionally performs a significant part in Christmas; footage are hung up within the streets, he is on the television and children may even go and sit on his lap at your native shopping centre and inform him the presents they'd like. However the place did he come from? Well, Father Christmas or 'Santa Claus' is predicated on a real individual, St Nicholas.  
  
It's believed that back within the 4th Century AD, Nicholas was very shy Christian leader from Myra and decided he needed to assist the poor people by giving them money however without them knowing.  
  
It's said that at some point he climbed the roof of a house and dropped a purse full of money down the chimney which landed in a stocking that a girl had hung as much as dry by the fire, which is the place the tradition of Santa coming down the chimney and putting gifts into children's stockings comes from.