the Super Saturday weekend, the last weekend before Christmas, accounted for 13.6 percent of holiday retail sales in the United States in 2006?
the Kraków szopka is a unique Polish Christmas tradition that portrays artistic interpretations of buildings of Kraków along nativity scenes?
the Goodpasture Covered Bridge (pictured) spanning the McKenzie River near Vida, Oregon is decorated for the Christmas season?
the Wawer massacre around Christmas 1939 in occupied Poland is considered one of the first large massacres of Polish civilians by Nazi Germany?
the Naked Camera character Jake Stevens released the Christmas single "Merry Christmas Jakey Boy" in 2006?
to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Christmas lights and decorations on Summer Street in Duboistown, Pennsylvania, the mayor proclaimed "December as Candy Cane Lane month forever more"?
the Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba is one of the musical symbols of Christmas in the Czech Republic?
the Berner Haselnusslebkuchen (pictured), a traditional Christmas cookie from Switzerland, is a lebkuchen made from ground hazelnuts?
the BBC program Oz and Hugh Drink to Christmas was described in the press as Oz Clarke and Hugh Dennis divining that the true spirit of Christmas is "getting hammered"?
shortly before Christmas 1942, an alleged Nazi spy was captured by the Garda in Castletownroche, a small Irish village?
Chrissy Snow from the American sitcom Three's Company was actually named "Christmas Snow"?
Mayor Tom Weisner once considered outlawing untimely holiday decorations, when citizens of Aurora, Illinois, complained of Christmas decorations abounding during the summer?
Ludwig I of Bavaria was inspired to commission the Court Church of All Saints (pictured) in the Munich Residence after attending Christmas mass at the Palatine Chapel in Palermo?
Doctor Who spoofs range from a 1964 novelty Christmas single by the Go-Go's called "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek" to two sketches on Saturday Night Live?
Hugo Jaeger's personal collection of photographs includes colour shots of Adolf Hitler on a cruise in 1939 and of the Nazi leader attending a Christmas party in 1941?
in the Catalan region of Spain, a Caganer is often tucked away in some corner of a Christmas Nativity scene where he is not easily noticed, because he is defecating?
collecting Toyon branches for Christmas became so popular in Los Angeles, California in the 1920s, that the state passed a law forbidding collecting?
Tirggel, traditional Christmas cookies from Switzerland, are said to have originated as pagan offertory cakes, cut in the shape of sacrificial animals?
Christmas is traditionally celebrated in Agnone, Italy, with a torchlight parade known as Ndocciata? (2006 event pictured)