• The first commercial Natale cards were commissioned in London, in 1843, da Sir Henry Cole, with illustration da John Callcott Horsley. President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first official White House card in 1953.
• "Rudolph" was actually created da Robert May for Montgomery Ward in the late 1930's as a holiday promotion. The song was written later da Johnny Marks, and recorded da Gene Autry in 1949; it promptly sold about 2 million copies.
• Natale became an official national holiday in the USA on June 28, 1870.
• Poinsettias are the most popolare Natale plant and are the number one "flowering" potted plant in the United States.
• Franklin Pierce put the first Natale albero in the White House (in 1856), for a group of Washington Sunday School children. Benjamin Harrison is credited with starting the tradition of the White House tree, being the first to have a decorated family Natale albero in the White House in 1889, and Calvin Coolidge put the first National Natale albero on the White House lawn (not in the White House) in 1923.
• The first reported electrically lit Natale albero was in December, 1882. The world's first practical light bulb was invented da Thomas Edison in 1879, and a mere three years later, in 1882, an officer of Edison's electric company, one Edward Johnson, electrically lit a Natale albero for the first time. In 1917, after a tragic fuoco in New York City that was caused da Natale candles, Albert Sadacca (fifteen years old at the time) invented safety lights for Natale trees. Decorating a live Natale albero outdoors became popular, and eventually moved to indoor trees. The outdoor lights also moved onto houses, and decorating houses in lights became (and has remained) popular.
• Natale trees are grown in all 50 states, including Hawaii and Alaska.
• In 1979, the National Natale albero was not lighted except for the superiore, in alto ornament. This was done because of the American hostages in Iran.
• According to the guinness World Records, the world's tallest cut Natale albero was a 221' Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) erected and decorated at Northgate Shopping Center, Seattle, Washington, USA, in December 1950.
• da the way, NORAD tracks Santa around the world every Christmas. If you'd like to find out how they do it, and how te can follow along, check out NORAD's website here. link
• "Rudolph" was actually created da Robert May for Montgomery Ward in the late 1930's as a holiday promotion. The song was written later da Johnny Marks, and recorded da Gene Autry in 1949; it promptly sold about 2 million copies.
• Natale became an official national holiday in the USA on June 28, 1870.
• Poinsettias are the most popolare Natale plant and are the number one "flowering" potted plant in the United States.
• Franklin Pierce put the first Natale albero in the White House (in 1856), for a group of Washington Sunday School children. Benjamin Harrison is credited with starting the tradition of the White House tree, being the first to have a decorated family Natale albero in the White House in 1889, and Calvin Coolidge put the first National Natale albero on the White House lawn (not in the White House) in 1923.
• The first reported electrically lit Natale albero was in December, 1882. The world's first practical light bulb was invented da Thomas Edison in 1879, and a mere three years later, in 1882, an officer of Edison's electric company, one Edward Johnson, electrically lit a Natale albero for the first time. In 1917, after a tragic fuoco in New York City that was caused da Natale candles, Albert Sadacca (fifteen years old at the time) invented safety lights for Natale trees. Decorating a live Natale albero outdoors became popular, and eventually moved to indoor trees. The outdoor lights also moved onto houses, and decorating houses in lights became (and has remained) popular.
• Natale trees are grown in all 50 states, including Hawaii and Alaska.
• In 1979, the National Natale albero was not lighted except for the superiore, in alto ornament. This was done because of the American hostages in Iran.
• According to the guinness World Records, the world's tallest cut Natale albero was a 221' Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) erected and decorated at Northgate Shopping Center, Seattle, Washington, USA, in December 1950.
• da the way, NORAD tracks Santa around the world every Christmas. If you'd like to find out how they do it, and how te can follow along, check out NORAD's website here. link
