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From Star Wars action figures to the iPhone, every decade has had a "must have" Christmas gift.
Snowmobiles are a common winter sight, but there was a time when driving in the snow took a bit more creativity.
To finance the abolition cause, women organized Christmas bazaars that sold donated gifts and trumpeted the anti-slavery message.
In 1773, a group of colonists protested 13 years of increasing British oppression by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor.
While Jews today observe Hanukkah by retelling the story of Judah and the Maccabees, there is another story that used to be told.