News Stories relating to "christmas"

Everyone's wishing you a Merry Christmas, but is Christmas the holiday you wish you could avoid? Do you always fight with your relatives and have to cope with whining, disappointed kids? You need help from a psychiatrist like Graham Lucas, who specializes in the study of holiday stress. He says, "Christmas magnifies interpersonal tension. A...

Hate Christmas cards? Send crop circle postcards instead!Use them to wish everyone on your list a happy Christmas, Hanukkah or Solstice. This is the season of miracles and magic and these beautiful full-color photographs are a reminder that wonders are all around us. We've got other great Christmas ideas too. Keep reading...

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Michael Molnar, an astronomer formerly from Rutgers University in New Jersey, says he?s found the first mention of the star of Bethlehem outside the Bible. The reference is in a 4th-century manuscript written by a Roman astrologer and Christian convert named Firmicus Maternus.

Molnar believes that the star of Bethlehem was not a...

The reason Santa?s reindeer can fly has been explained in down-to-earth terms by Dr. Ian Edwards, head of education at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland. He?s hallucinating on fly-agaric mushrooms.

Dr. Edwards says the story of the flying reindeer spread south to central Europe from Lapland in the 19th century. It...

Someone asked us, ?Do you have any books that are especially right for Christmas giving?? and surprisingly, the answer is ?yes!?

My first suggestion is ?Resurrection of the Shroud? by Mark Antonacci. When Mark came on Dreamland to talk about his book, he told us some amazing facts. Did you know that the Shroud of Turin has actual human...