Thanksgiving is behind us but that's not stopping the NFL from having a holiday triple-header. Once again, the league is holding three games as millions of Americans celebrate a holiday, this time on ...

How the count started, and how the data is used today. Prior to the turn of the 20th century, hunters engaged in a holiday tradition known as the Christmas "Side Hunt." They would choose sides and go ...

This is the story of how Britain celebrated Christmas during the war years. Discover why rationing made the Christmas dinner a triumph of ingenuity, and how Santa had to cobble presents together from ...

The 16th-century Christmas carol "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" says, "God rest ye merry, gentlemen / Let nothing you dismay / Remember, Christ, our Saviour / Was born on Christmas Day." It's a ...

It's been more than 50 years since the NFL first played a game on Christmas. In 1971, the Minnesota Vikings and Dallas Cowboys played in freezing temperatures during the NFC divisional playoffs in the ...

For all the wrapping paper, lights, and gingerbread cookies, Christmas has been around far longer than toy catalogs and peppermint mochas. Its history involves unexpected inventions and bits of trivia ...

Perhaps Santa delivered Netflix and Amazon Prime subscriptions this Christmas, because you'll need those to watch the NFL tripleheader being played on the holiday. This will be the sixth consecutive ...

There's one holiday most closely associated with the NFL: Thanksgiving. But the fourth Thursday in November's had to make room for another holiday on the NFL calendar in recent years. For decades, the ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Christmas Day has finally arrived, and over two billion people around the world will be celebrating. Traditionally, Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, ...

Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2013. Read the original here. Many of our American society’s most enduring Christmas traditions come from the Victorian Age. Our idea of Santa ...