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”
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Fun Fact: When Christopher Columbus Had a Bad Christmas
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.
Fun Fact: The First Christmas in Rome
Due to the first Christian Roman Emperor Constantine I, the first notable Christmas celebrations in Rome took place in the year 336.
Fun Fact: The Greek Santa Claus
Traditionally in Greece, the gift-giver of Christmas is not Santa/Saint Nicolas. It is Saint Basil the Great, and his day wasn’t Christmas Eve but January 1st.
Fun Fact: Christmas Trees In The Bible?
Christmas trees were originally the tradition of Germanic pagans. Ironically in the Bible there is actually a verse against it in Jeremiah 10. It says for followers to not be like other “nations”, and describes a practice that sounds a lot like the decoration of Christmas trees.
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