Our programme this year started on 15 December with the lighting of the Christmas tree.
According to legend, Protestant reformer Martin Luther was the first person to decorate a Christmas tree.
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Not far from here, in the Blue Room, is the official White House Christmas Tree.
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Cigarette reliably in hand, he poured champagne, hugged beautiful women, brought home the Christmas tree.
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Christmas offers a whole variety of choking hazards from Christmas tree bulbs to decorations.
Obama gave us these ornaments so we could make them for your Christmas tree.
For 25 years, the City of Honolulu has had a big Christmas tree and light display.
For 89 years, Presidents and Americans have come together to light the National Christmas Tree.
There are approximately 21, 000 Christmas tree farms in the U.S. that sell 35 million trees each year.
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On Wednesday, December 2, the 66th annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony takes place in New York.
"Human organisms are not things you hang ornaments on like a Christmas tree, " says Thomas Murray, Hastings' director.
Like the Kopelmans, they have a Christmas tree with dreidel ornaments and a menorah, which they light each night.
One of my special leading indicators, Christmas tree sales along the sidewalks of Columbus Avenue, spiked this past weekend.
This is what you will listen to while you watch jolly old Al Roker light that Christmas tree tonight.
Every year, Trafalgar Square in London becomes home to an enormous Christmas tree.
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This is what's known as "loading the Christmas tree" with promises of bridges and other shows of federal largess.
That spanking new table saw or nail gun under the Christmas tree may deliver quite the thrill to the handyman in your house.
How many CEOs have a video of themselves on YouTube doing yoga in their underwear in front of a Christmas tree?
The American Christmas Tree Association, the artificial-tree retailers' group, said it welcomes a stronger marketing effort from live Christmas tree farmers.
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The origin tales of the Christmas tree are as varied and conflicting as those of any of the other Christmas traditions.
Some enchanted evening, in 1950, Freddie wanders past a wharf, where a fancy yacht is moored, lit like a Christmas tree.
Indeed, images of the dry, parched, arid, almost certainly lifeless surface of another planet lit up Twitter like a Christmas tree.
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Is a Christmas tree motif indicative of a Christian recipient, even though it has arguably become a standard holiday symbol across religions?
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Martin Luther, founder of the Lutheran branch of Christianity, is fabled to have set up the first Christmas tree lit by candles.
Public Schools wrote a letter to the White House asking if they could put up a Christmas tree on the South Lawn.
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The fact is, Mr. Lynn has participated in other events in the past, including the lighting of the Christmas Tree, I believe.
In 2010, U.S. consumers purchased 27 million farm-grown Christmas trees and 8.2 million artificial trees, according to The National Christmas Tree Association.
The Trust said the Shropshire Sheep had become increasingly popular with Christmas tree and fruit tree growers in the UK and across Europe.
Mohammed, who is Muslim, was able to salvage her beloved Christmas tree, a symbol of freedom and her new life in this country.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tallest Christmas tree ever cut was a 221-foot Douglas fir displayed in Seattle, Washington.
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