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Christmas Trivia: A Christmas Quiz

Christmas is celebrated in many different cultures, each with its own traditions. How much do you know about the Christmas traditions here in the United States? Take this Christmas quiz and test your...

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Are poinsettias toxic to dogs, cats or children?

  Poinsettias: these beautiful star shaped red blooms effectively bring a whiff of Christmas spirit to homes along with adorned Christmas trees and stockings hanging off a fireplace. Yet, for years these...

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Have Yourself a Mexicali Christmas! - The Legend of the Poinsettia

Pointsettia, the Star that bloomed in Love.

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Christmas Hubs

A collection of Christmas hubs, including different Christmas carols, traditions, quotations and celebration of Christmas in the Philippines,

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The Great Deception: Hold Your Seat!

Every year someone thinks and asks the inevitable question:What is the relationship between Christmas and Santa Claus. For some nations, there never was a connection; and no Christmas or Santa Claus...

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Mother Nature dresses up for Christmas in Tenerife

Tenerife is perhaps not a place that springs to mind when you think about Christmas but in fact it is an ideal place to spend the festive season. And not just because of the countless bars and cheap prices...

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Garden Tales: The Poinsettia

          When I think of Christmas and the holiday season there are, besides the tree and lights, two things that seem to always have been there. No not presents, the red delicious apple and...

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Make Christmas Napkin Rings

Spending lots of money on fancy table decorations for the holiday is really not necessary when you can make your own inexpensive ones right at home. Your guests will be impressed and your table will be so...

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Walking upwards for Christmas

Unlike in the UK, December in Tenerife is still often sunny and warm by day and ideal for long country walks and I had been thinking of investigating Tierra del Trigo, a village I haven't heard much about but...

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According to the ASPCA, poinsettias will make a cat mildly ill72

Poinsettias and Cats

I've always kept my cats away from poinsettias fearing the worst, however I've come to learn that the threat of the 'deadly' poinsettias to cats is really just a myth. The toxins in poinsettias are mild. To...

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