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"Sinterklaas," a Dutch figure from which Santa Claus got his name, is celebrated annually on St. Nicholas Eve or the morning after in Belgium and France. Which day is St. Nicholas Ev...

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Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at California State University-Long Beach. The name "Kwanzaa" is derived from the phrase ...

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Santa's light on a dark night, Rudolph, was born more than 100 years after his eight flying counterparts. The "most famous reindeer of all" was the 1939 creation of Robert L. May to ...

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According to the American Automobile Association, 42.5 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this holiday season.Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, November 23 – 27...

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The events that inspired Hanukkah happened during a particularily turbulent time of Jewish history. Judea, the land of Israel, was taken over by Antiochus III around 200 B.C. Antiochus II...

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It's beginning to look a lot like a brown Christmas, but that doesn’t mean the many ski hills in and around the Twin Cities aren’t ready for the season to start. As the image on the right...

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Franz Gruber's "Silent Night"—or "Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht" in German—was first performed at Midnight Mass in Oberndorf, Austria, on Christmas Eve night 1818. Some speculate the o...

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Southwest Minneapolis has a (relative) ton of places to get Christmas trees. Six for a population of 48,000? That's one for every 8,000 residents, and that assumes no-one is hopping acros...