Some 94, 000 people visited Salisbury's first Christmas Market with organisers saying their "leap of faith" paid off.
During our first Christmas we strung blinking lights around our win-dows, and on Christmas Eve, Mr. and Mrs.
On advice from the other widows, Weikel made what she calls a "preemptive strike" on her first Christmas without her husband.
And you will feel ashamed, and promise to pay close attention for the rest of church, or your child's first Christmas.
Martin Luther, founder of the Lutheran branch of Christianity, is fabled to have set up the first Christmas tree lit by candles.
This year is the first Christmas that the ban on alcohol on trains in the evenings and mornings has been in force.
It is John's first Christmas with my family and, despite two years of living in this culinary capital, he's not used to our gustatory ways.
Jennifer says she's going all out for her son's first Christmas.
Even the wave of sympathy that brought eager shoppers in from north and south of the border in the first Christmas after the blast has not been repeated in subsequent years - partly due to a rash of bomb hoaxes.
Her later series for the BBC have included One is Fun in 1991, Delia's How to Cook, which ran for three series between 1998 and 2002, and Delia's Classic Christmas, which gained an audience of nearly four million in December 2009, and marked her first Christmas programme for nearly 20 years.
The first artificial Christmas trees were made in Germany using goose feathers that were dyed green.
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Meanwhile, the Queen's annual address to the nation attracted a total audience of 7.5m viewers as it marked the 50th anniversary of her first televised Christmas address.
Indeed, it seems very likely that the winter solstice was not dedicated to Sol by the Romans until after the bishop of Rome first celebrated Christmas on December 25th in 336 AD.
But even the lowliest cabinet member is curious about how the first post-Christmas cabinet on January 14th will go.
Mr. HANK CLEMITIS: (Singing) On the first day of Christmas, Katrina gave to me my boat sitting in an oak tree.
The date itself came later, on the first night of Christmas vacation.
Her use of 3D technology comes 80 years after George V first broadcast a Christmas speech on the radio and started the 25 December tradition.
The second week of April is the first week since Christmas it has been warm enough to lay the concrete foundations to support the turbine.
Electric lights made their first appearance on Christmas trees in 1895.
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But computer monitors don't make great TV screens, networking won't be included in the first version's Christmas release and Microsoft's past TV-in-computers initiatives have failed dismally.
Seiko introduced the first quartz watch on Christmas Day, 1969, and everyone, the Swiss included, rushed to adopt a technology that was at once more reliable, more accurate and much cheaper to produce.
According to legend, Protestant reformer Martin Luther was the first person to decorate a Christmas tree.
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Dixons' share price fell 2.8% on Tuesday, when rumours of poor Christmas trading results first emerged.
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The independent auditor is expected to issue quarterly reports, with the first to be delivered before Christmas.
The first UK retailers to report Christmas sales, Next and John Taylor, offered weak results outside online growth.
Jersey Post is selling stamps at a reduced price in the run up to Christmas for the first time.
Glencoe opened before Christmas for the first time in 10 years.
This year even my mum will be enjoying a techno-Christmas with both a 1GB memory stick for her digital camera and her first ever DVD player finding their way into her Christmas sack.
Much of the Tube network was disrupted on the first day of the post-Christmas sales.
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