'The Man Who Invented Christmas' is an artful look at Dickens

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One of the many famous anecdotes arising from the life of Charles Dickens , the most important English novelist in the 19th century, came when the poet Theodore Watts-Duncan reported that a young cockney street ...

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Rick from Connecticut

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"Prince Philip, Queen Victoria's consort, helped popularize the Christmas tree, a tradition he brought from his native Germany."

Has someone been taking an early nip of egg nog? Prince Philip is neither German nor 189 years old. Nor is he his wife's great-great-grandfather. That was Prince Albert.

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