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Steve Webb: Hi, this is day
three of the 2022 encore of the

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2009 season of the Lifespring
White Christmas show welcome the

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shows hosted by my friend James
Cooper of white christmas.com.

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And me the OG God caster and
host of over 3000 podcast

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episodes it Lifespring
media.com. Every day from now to

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Christmas day you'll hear an
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show.

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James Cooper: Hello, and welcome
to day three of the Lifespring

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by Christmas show for 2009.
Today I'm going to be taking a

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quick look at Christmas trees.
Now did you know that fir trees

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have been used for 1000s of
years to celebrate the winter

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solstice Festival, where people
walk branches into their homes

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to remind them that spring was
on the way. The first documented

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use of a Christmas tree is in
1510 in the Latvian capital of

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Riga. The first person to bring
Christmas trees into a house

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might have been the 16th century
German preacher Martin Luther,

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or another story says it's st
Boniface of Crediton, which is a

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place in Devon which is not too
far away from me here in the UK.

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In Germany, the first Christmas
trees were decorated with things

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you could eat, such as
gingerbread and gold leaf

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covered apples and glassmakers
started making small ornaments

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that people used on their tree
instead. When people also used

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to use real candles on their
Christmas trees, and of course

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that was a bit dangerous because
trees like to catch fire quite

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well. So in 1895 Thankfully, an
American telephone engineer

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called Ralph Morris invented the
first electric Christmas lights.

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You can find out more about
Christmas trees over at www dot

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white christmas.com. We'll come
back tomorrow to find out

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something else about Christmas.