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Steve Webb: Hello and Merry
Christmas. This is day 16 of the

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2022 encore of the 2009 season
of the Lifespring Why Christmas

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Show. The show is hosted by
James Cooper, creator of white

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christmas.com and me the OG God
casters Steve Webb, creator of

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Lifespring media.com and host of
over 3000 podcast episodes,

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including the Lifespring family
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currently reading through the
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Let's go

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James Cooper: Hello and welcome
to Day 16 of the Lifespring why

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Christmas shed. Today I'm going
to be telling you a bit about

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putting city as open city as the
Christmas flowers that have some

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different pronunciations, but
originally come from a place in

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southern Mexico called Tex code
del Alarcon. The ancient as text

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use the red leaves or Brax. The
ancient Aztecs use their red

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flowers also known as Braxton to
make a purple dye for clothing

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as cosmetics and then milky
white sap was the first form of

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latex and they used it as a
medicine to treat fevers. The

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poinsettia was made widely known
because of a man called Joel

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Robert Poinsett. That's where we
get the name from. He was the

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first ambassador from the USA to
Mexico in 1825. He sent it to a

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friend of a friend called Robert
Buddhist, a plantsman from

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Pennsylvania. And he was the
first person to sell poinsettias

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under their botanical or Latin
name, which is Euphorbia poached

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cherry Ma, which means the most
beautiful Euphorbia the shape of

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the poinsettias, flowers and
leaves are sometimes thought to

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represent the Star of David or
the Star of Bethlehem which

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brought the wise men to Jesus.
If you'd like to know more about

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poinsettias, then head on over
to whychristmas.com Make sure

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you come back tomorrow when
Steve will be telling you about

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something that's very associated
with the traditional Christmas

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dinner, the Christmas pudding
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any of the other Lifespring
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to Lifespring media.com Thanks
for listening to day 16 of the

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Lifespring Why Christmas show