Reuters: Fact Check: Fake Trump Christmas postcard making the rounds on social media
Fact Check: Fake Trump Christmas postcard making the rounds on social media
Antique Christmas postcards are an affordable collectible favored by many collectors. The practice of collecting postcards of all types is called "deltiology," and those who collect consider the years ...
On Dec. 21, 1915, Rural Free Delivery letter carrier, John S. Mac Ilroy, sent this Christmas postcard to William Taylor, a patron on his Pittstown, N.J., route. The back of the postcard has a printed ...
al.com: 31 vintage Christmas cards sent in Alabama from 1900-1970, plus a history of holiday cards
You may have heard Alabama was the first U.S. state to recognize Christmas as a holiday in 1836, but do you know where the first holiday card was created? While creating a photo gallery of vintage ...
31 vintage Christmas cards sent in Alabama from 1900-1970, plus a history of holiday cards
Most people treat old holiday mail like clutter, but a surprising number of antique Christmas cards are edging into serious collectible territory. The right mix of age, artwork, and condition can turn ...
Slate: Hopeful Hand-Embroidered Christmas Cards, Sent Home From the Front During WWI
Christmas lights: According to The Encyclopedia of Religion, Europeans decorated their homes “with lights and evergreens of all kinds” to celebrate the winter solstice and to combat evil spirits. Mistletoe, holly: “The Druids ascribed magical properties to the mistletoe in particular.
The Best of Christmas Like many of history’s most enduring stories, this one took the most unlikely of turns. A virgin woman bears a child, promised by an angel and conceived by God. Born in a crowded town near Jerusalem, the infant has for His nursery a stable—His makeshift crib, a feeding trough. But shepherds worship the boy, and a powerful king fears Him. And when He has become a man ...