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Most people have heard that Christmas is literally the “Christ Mass” of the Christian church, and that Santa Claus takes his name from a corruption of “Saint Nicholas,” the 4th century ...

to give everyone affordable health care—as with his more transparent lies, the claims about his “popular-vote victory” and the rest. “They don’t use the word ‘Christmas’ because it ...

From the origins of Christmas carols to romantic mistletoe kisses, here are the histories and meanings of five words associated with the most widely celebrated holiday in the world. Usage of the ...

smell and feel words has said that the word “Christmas” doesn’t taste the way most people might think. Henry Gray, 23, was diagnosed with lexical-gustatory synaestheria in 2009, which means ...