Christmas
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Christmas is an annual celebration commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A litur
Nativity scene depicted using Christmas lights
Adoration of the Shepherds by Dutch painter Matthias Stomer, 1632
Nativity of Christ, medieval illustration from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg, 12th century
The Nativity, from a 14th-century missal, a liturgical book containing texts and music necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the year
Christmas and holiday season
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The Christmas season or the festive season, also known as the holiday season or the holidays, is an annual period generally spanning from November or December to early January incorporating Christmas
Christmas tree in Japan. Christmas is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians around the world.
Midwinter sunset at Stonehenge
Saturnalia (1783) by Antoine-François Callet, showing his interpretation of what the Roman Saturnalia might have looked like