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• Frankincense is an aromatic gum resin that comes from trees in the Boswellia family that grow in East Africa and Asia. An incision is made in the tree, the bark is peeled away, and a few months later a lump of resin is collected. When burned, it has a balsam-like odor. It has been used as incense since ancient times. When steam is passed through frankincense, it yields an oil used in perfumes to give them a long-lasting, spicy fragrance. Myrrh is also a resin, secreted by certain shrubs and small trees. It’s been used as an antiseptic and astringent as well as an embalming agent. Although frankincense and myrrh were highly esteemed in Biblical times, today they are of little value on the world market.
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• Sir Henry Cole owned an art shop in London. In 1843 he asked an artist to design a card that he could send to his friends and associates to wish them a good Christmas, because he was too busy to write them letters. The artist drew a three-fold card. The outside panels depicted people giving clothing to the naked and feeding the hungry. The center panel showed a family celebrating Christmas by drinking wine around a feast table. The Temperance Movement was outraged by the cards— but they were in fact the first Christmas cards. Of 1,000 that were printed, 12 still exist. • By the late 1800s the exchange of Christmas cards in the U.S. had become so widespread that the Superintendent of Mails complained about needing to hire 16 extra mailmen in Washington, D.C. He petitioned Congress to limit the mailing of cards to avoid bottlenecks in the mail system. His petition failed. Today over two billion cards are exchanged each year in the U.S. alone. (Continued next page)
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• During World War I, President Hoover was constantly urging Americans to cut down on consumption of nearly everything. In the midst of the war, a Christmas card appeared that was printed on cheap gray cardboard and tied with a piece of string that was labelled “camouflaged ribbon.” Tiny scraps of green were labelled “mistletoe” and “holly” and a scrawny creature was labelled “bluebird.” The inscription inside said, “I’ve Hooverized on pork and beans and butter, cake and bread/ I’ve cut out auto riding and now I walk instead / I’ve Hooverized on sugar, on coal and light and lard, / And here’s my Christmas greeting on a Hoover Christmas Card.” • Roy Baker of Guthrie, Oklahoma received a Christmas card in the spring of 1974 that had been mailed over two years earlier. The card carried a two-cent postage due notice because postage rates had gone up between the time the card was mailed and the time it arrived. • Werner Erhard, founder of ‘est’ meditation, set a world record for number of Christmas cards sent in a single year: 62,824 mailed in 1975.
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• Dr. Clement Moore in 1822 composed a little ditty for his nine children for Christmas. A friend who saw the poem sent it to a newspaper, and from there it was picked up by other papers and many magazines. Dr. Moore was a scholar and worried that being known as the author of such a simple Christmas poem would ruin his reputation. Therefore, he didn’t confess his authorship until some 15 years had passed, and he never received a penny for his poem. By then, nearly everyone knew the poem by heart: “‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” Today, the poem is recited over his grave each Christmas Eve. (Continued next page)
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• Adlai Stevenson was working on an agricultural act when he wrote a marketing agreement for the walnut industry. That year for Christmas a walnut company sent him a huge sack full of individual packages of walnuts. He thought his Christmas shopping worries were over, and mailed them out to friends and relatives. Only later did he discover that inside each package was a card reading, “Merry Christmas to Adlai from the walnut industry.”
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• Irving Berlin needed to write a song for each of the major holidays for the movie “Holiday Inn” starring Bing Crosby. Berlin didn’t have much trouble with most of the holidays, but when it came to Christmas, he was stuck. • Inspiration struck as he sat by a swimming pool in Arizona. He declared, “I just wrote the best song I’ve ever written – hell! I just wrote the best song that anybody’s ever written!” • Crosby performed the song in the movie, and recorded it for Decca Records in a single 18-minute session. It didn’t do well on the charts at first, until Christmas came and the Armed Forces Network was flooded with requests for it by homesick soldiers. The song spent 11 weeks at the top, only to return to the top position again during the holiday seasons in 1945 and 1947, becoming the only single in history with three separate runs at the top. • It sold more than 50 million copies. It’s now been recorded by more artists than any other song in the history of the recording industry, and the Guinness Book of World Records lists it as the topselling song of all time, with over 100 million copies sold, including over 500 different versions. What’s the name of the song? Answer: “White Christmas.”
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* Historians say that on April 4, 1968, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. participated in a pillow fight in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. This wouldn’t be noteworthy, of course, except for the fact that he was assassinated at the motel that same evening.
* You probably won’t be surprised to learn that before horseradish was called horseradish, it was known as “stingnose” in many areas of the United States. However, you might be surprised to learn that it was sometimes rubbed on a person’s forehead to relieve a headache.
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• The word ‘hallmark’ originates from the Goldsmith’s Hall in London which was the site of the assay office. Items made of gold or silver would be stamped with a mark that guaranteed their authenticity, and from there the word came to mean a mark of quality. • About 60% of all seasonal cards sold are Christmas cards. After Christmas, the most popular holidays to send cards are Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Easter and Father’s Day. • 90% of Americans buy at least one greeting card per year. • About one-third of the cards a typical American receives are birthday cards. About 60% of non-seasonal cards are birthday cards, followed by anniversary, get well, friendship and sympathy. • The most popular recipients of seasonal cards are parents. The most popular recipients of non-seasonal cards are friends. • Americans purchase nearly 7 billion greeting cards every year.
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