Our programme this year started on 15 December with the lighting of the Christmas tree.
Cigarette reliably in hand, he poured champagne, hugged beautiful women, brought home the 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.
The origin tales of the Christmas tree are as varied and conflicting as those of any of the other Christmas traditions.
The fact is, Mr. Lynn has participated in other events in the past, including the lighting of the Christmas Tree, I believe.
She sat chained in a van outside Scotland Yard all one Christmas, in 1974, while a friend blew the lights on the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square.
Father Christmas and the Christmas tree, the inventions of Nordic pagans, did not enter the average home until the end of the 19th century, but are now well established.
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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Jami Warner, Executive Director of the American Christmas Tree Association says the benefits of buying a real or fake tree are the same.
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.
For 89 years, Presidents and Americans have come together to light the National Christmas Tree.
Martin Luther, founder of the Lutheran branch of Christianity, is fabled to have set up the first Christmas tree lit by candles.
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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The president lit the national Christmas tree in a ceremony tonight.
Now, with local unemployment nearing 14 percent, Spruce Pine is rebuilding around tourism and local crafts and is rebranding itself as the home of the perfect Christmas tree.
These top-notch law grads, brilliant and bright as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree when all the lights are turned on, may actually be idiots who lack imagination underneath it all.
Later in the week, I was also part of the tens of thousands of people on the streets near Rockefeller centre for a cold but nice evening to watch the new Christmas tree.
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Rick Dungey, Public Relations Manager for The National Christmas Tree Association, says higher Christmas tree sales may be due to millennials who are more apt to buy a real tree than a fake one.
The official White House Christmas tree, which stands tall in the center of the Blue Room, honors the courageous service of the troops, veterans, and military families who serve our country with pride.
This evening, in Midland Beach, New York, on a street lined with houses and businesses devastated by the storm, a great big Christmas tree shines out of the darkness.
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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There are, of course, many other Christmas traditions - the food, the tree, decorations, family gatherings - and some argue that full pews at Christmas-time should be seen as part of that - a purely cultural thing.
Not far from here, in the Blue Room, is the official White House Christmas Tree.
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The 54-year-old dedicated the award to her family and joked that it would have pride of place at the top of her Christmas tree.
Obama will join the President at the National Park Service at the National Park Foundation's Annual National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony held on the Ellipse at 5:00 p.m. eastern.
Now fully gripped by festive fever, Quest takes centre stage in Vilnius, Lithuania -- in front of 25, 000 people -- it's time to turn on the lights of the city's Christmas tree.
In other photos, a wreath in the shape of a Christmas tree dangles above highway construction, and a "Happy Holidays" banner casts its shadow on a highway empty except for a single truck.
In the Entrance Hall on the State Floor, crystal snowflakes hang from the ceiling above visitors as they walk toward the Blue Room, home to the official White House Christmas Tree, also decorated in honor of military families.
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