The faithful leave votive candles one this week was in a Christmas tree-shaped lantern decorated with a nativity scene and other offerings at the base of the statue.
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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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In a year of trash-collection trials, Toledo residents face one more surprise this week: no curbside Christmas-tree pickups.
Authorities recovered Christmas-tree lights in one of the suspects' rooms, prompting investigators to see whether part of the initiator for the pipe bombs was light-bulb filaments, the FBI report said.
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.
In 1951, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad branched out beyond the basic business of mail-order Christmas tree decorations, ballpoint pens and bird seeds and added a catalog-only furniture business.
Let the neighbors rig up their 40-foot, live-candle Christmas tree or present little pots of caviar so precious that each egg is like the last stand of an endangered species.
With her first paycheck, Mohammed was able to buy a few items for her new home among them, a Christmas tree with ornaments, red-beaded garland and two large lighted candy canes.
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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In 1994 both he and a female model were arrested in New York when she posed nude on top of an eight-foot high replica Christmas tree in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center.
This Christmas, they are planning an elaborate tree made of weeping-willow branches.
And there is some talk of possibly rolling it into one little holiday package -- the extenders, the UI benefits extension, as well as payroll tax cuts -- just do it all at once, Christmas tree it.
Or Christmas: I mean can mistletoe and tree lights really compete against bright multi-colored blasts in the sky?
The 44-year-old, who shared the Biddeford flat with the two victims and her six-year-old son, said she had hidden behind a 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.
There's no place like New York for the holidays -- the tree at Rockefeller Center, the decorated store windows, the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall.
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 2010, U.S. consumers purchased 27 million farm-grown Christmas trees and 8.2 million artificial trees, according to The National Christmas Tree Association.
But if iPod's sales ultimately disappoint, it's because Apple's industry-leading marketing expertise makes every product launch like Christmas morning, but the presents under the tree never quite measure up to the ones in your imagination.
Christmas tree growers are a diffuse bunch, ranging from Pacific Northwest magnates who harvest trees with helicopters, to mom-and-pop shops in the Carolinas that have choose-and-cut operations on their family farms.
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For a fun activity to do with the whole family, check out our homemade holiday greeting card and DIY Christmas cracker tutorials, and before putting your gifts under the tree, don't miss our guide to eco-friendly gift wrap alternatives.
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