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Santa Claus float Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 42nd st Times Square NYC New York City NY USA 2022

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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Inflation Celebration

NYC USA

Thursday November 24th 2022

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Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max smartphone photo and 4K video

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********* Christmas Origins **********

Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today

Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
The Stage Coach
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
Christmas Dinner
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
A Christmas Carol 1843
aka Scrooge with quote from Tiny Tim God bless us every one!

Oliver Twist (1838) with quote from Oliver Twist Please, sir, I want some more
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Additional famous Christmas story:

A Visit from St. Nicholas 1823

Clement Clarke Moore USA

with the quote:

Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night

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Believed Christmas origins:

Christmas Tree - Germany

Advent wreath - Germany

Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880

Christmas Cards - England 1843

Befana Christmas Witch - Italy

Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939

Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year

Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)

Poinsettia red flowers - México

First documented snowman Netherlands 1380

The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904

The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907

First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans

1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.

Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration

Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987

Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home

The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923

Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3

Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963

Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s

The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM NEW YORK CITY USA

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