Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting
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The holidays are the perfect time to look back at Christmases past. Here's what decking the halls looked like at Rockefeller Center in 1960. A host of entertainers will cozy up in their cutest Christmas gear and keep you warm and snuggly while you watch the tree lighting ceremony.
Erik Pauze has been choosing the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree for nearly 20 years. Find out how he got this unique job and how he finds the perfect spruce.
London's Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square will be lit up Thursday as part of a British tradition with roots in the Norwegian forest. The tree symbolizes the friendship between London and Oslo in an annual ceremony that highlights the history of the countries' alliance.
Drones have been used to distribute tree seeds around a reservoir in the Scottish Borders in a bid to protect its water quality. The Talla Reservoir near Tweedsmuir is a key water source for the city of Edinburgh. The project involves more than two million native tree seeds being sown across "inaccessible upland areas".
U.S. tree farms cut 14.5 million Christmas trees in 2022, the most-recent year USDA data was available. There are more than 300 million Christmas trees growing on the approximately 15,000 farms in the U.S., according to the National Christmas Tree Association, an industry trade group.
As a tiny seedling began sprouting in the forest along Mount Rose Highway west of Reno, the Vietnam War was ending under President Gerald Ford, the price of gas was 53 cents per gallon and the Kool-Aid man made his first television commercial appearance.
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