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Thursday, 29 October 2026
17 facts about Christmas Tree
17 facts about Christmas Tree
An iconic symbol
It is the most characteristic symbol of Christmas and its indispensable element, without which it is difficult to imagine the holidays. Green, fragran ...

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Cricket
The gates that a cricket ball must pass through are called wickets.
Golf
When playing golf, the ball is hit by special golf clubs.
Each golf club consists of a shaft with a lance at the top end and a club head at the bottom. They a ...
Oktoberfest
Until 1871, Oktoberfest was held in October.
Since 1872, the date of the harvest festival has been moved to September. About 5 million liters of beer are drunk during this festival, sold in traditional one-liter mugs called Maßkrug.
Volleyball
The origins of volleyball can be traced back to 1895, when the director of physical education at the YMCA, William George Morgan, proposed the creation of a new game, which he called Mintonette.
Ideas for this first version of volleyball were taken from a number of games such as tennis, basketball, and handball.
Tennis
Historians believe that the scoring system originated from using the clock as a scoreboard.
Jurassic Park
The famous photo of Steven Spielberg posing with a mock-up of a diseased triceratops caused a real storm online.
In 2014, the photo was posted on Facebook by Jay Branscomb, who in his post sarcastically referred t ...
StarCraft
The StarCraft oeuvre does not only include games.
Over the years, many comic books, short stories, and books have been written in the StarCraft universe, expanding on the storyline depicted in the games.
Cricket
The Cricket World Cup was founded by England, Australia, and South Africa.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is celebrated to commemorate the first harvest festival of Plymouth colony residents in 1621.
Plymouth Colony was the first permanent English colony in New England from 1620 to 1691 and the seco ...
Jurassic Park
The screenplay for the film was based on a book.
We are talking about Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel of the same name.