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While it’s debated what counts as true gingerbread, the earliest forms came from outside of Europe. Gingerbread’s origin in Europe is said to be the work of an Armenian monk named Gregory of Nicopolis who taught French Christians how to bake the gingerbread in the year 992.

Johann Rall was a Hessian (German) colonel during the American Revolutionary War. It’s believed that on Christmas Day, he was handed a note about George Washington and his army getting close but put it in his coat pocket without reading it. He was too busy drinking and play cards to care. His forces were defeatedContinue reading “Fun Fact: The Man That Got Drunk on Christmas and Lost To Washington”

Christopher Columbus’ ship the Santa Maria sank on Christmas Day. On the night of Christmas Eve, Columbus went to sleep, and somebody let a boy steer the ship. Without a proper person to steer the ship, it crashed into the sandbank when water currents turned the ship that way.