All Kinds of Christmas Stories- German and English

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English Christmas Poems, Songs and Stories

Cathedral of Cologne, build to enshrine the remains of the Three Wisemen

St. Nick as I remember it, 1947

Christmas as I remember it, 1947

Christmas Legends and a German connection

Cat in the Christmas Tree? Oh - No!

The History of Christmas, an ancient story

,Learn about the creation of the American Sant Claus, Thomas Nast

Stollen, Spekulatius, Lebkuchen etc. and Stories about them.

 Advent Calendar, published first by Gerhard Lange in 1908

The A B C of Christmas, Blumenbaum

 Christmas Ornaments, started in Thuringian, Germany in 1840

 Spices for Christmas baking, their origion and recipes

 The Teddy Bear and the German American Connection,

 Barbie who started out as Lilli, emigrated to America in 1959

400 Years of German doll - making

Prang, Louis, first Christmas cards

 A tragic German - American Holiday Story

 with a good ending, 1755

The Legend of St. Barbara, Feast day Dec. 4th,

Feuerzangenbowle, Tradition, in English

 Weihnachtsgedichte in German

 Weihnachtslieder, in German

Weihnachtstrost

Poinsettia, History and Ledgend

January 6, the chalking of the Entrance

Why is January the First Monthof the Year?

Mehrere Neujahrsgedichte und Sprueche

Zur Jahreswende,

Two New Year's Greetings, Goethe

Jahresbilanz, 2006,Karl Leinberger

Zum neuen Jahr, Karl Leinberger

Zum neuen Jahr, Gundi Omis

Zum Neuen Jahr, Eduard Moerike

Neujahr, 1890, Deutsche Warte, Chicago

Zum Jahreswechel

Newjahrswuensche

Neujahrsgebet, Muenster, 1883

Ein Neujahrswunsch, submitted by Karl Leinberger

Wuensche zum Neuen Jahr, Peter Rosegger