Charles Dickens' classic Christmas story has inspired dozens of filmed adaptations, but the first one is impossible to watch ...

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Since its publication in December 1843, “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens has ... George H.W. Bush based his 1989 campaign on the idea of a “compassionate conservatism.” ...

"The 'Carol' sold well and continued to sell well," Patten said. But Dickens was just beginning. He'd always loved the holidays. He wrote one of the first descriptions of a Christmas tree.

Some years, “the Christmas season” is just an excuse for me to avoid taking the tree down until the Epiphany ... is Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol—and my favorite film adaptation ...

Charles Dickens’ 1843 tale is a reliable presence throughout Christmas, along with Christmas trees ... most poignant parts of "the Carol," McKnight says. "The idea that the afterlife's real ...

The lights on the tree are symbolic in the idea that Jesus is the "light of the world." Roman roots: Christmas trees have Roman roots. The Romans, during their winter solstice festival called ...

The title page of the first edition of Charles Dickens' A Christmas ... Carol, Charles Dickens wrote that he “endeavor[ed] in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea” for ...

In the early 19th century, Ernst Anschütz’s German Christmas carol "O Tannenbaum" celebrated the tree's constant presence during the long dark winter. Hulton Archive/Getty Despite Christmas ...

Parts of that celebration, like the yule log (a tree or branch being burned in a hearth) and yuletide (the name for the time of year), were later incorporated into Christmas traditions.