TIL that Christmas as we know it (family gatherings, seasonal food & drink, games, festive generosity, even saying Merry Christmas), is largely the result of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Before 1843 Christmas was associated w/ countryside peasant revelry & disconnected from modern city life.

https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/study-says-renewable-energy-power-plants-will-overtake-natural-gas-plants-by-2035/Content?oid=15834618

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