Everything Everywhere Daily - So What Exactly Are Frankincense and Myrrh?

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The bible talks of three wise men who traveled to Bethlehem bringing gifts to the infant Jesus. These gifs were gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 

I think most of you probably have a good conceptual grasp of gold, but what is the deal with frankincense, and myrrh? Were they really that big of a deal that they would bring it as a gift? 

Learn more about frankincense and myrrh, what they are and why they were such a big deal, on the episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Why is Christmas on December 25? (Encore)

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Every year, people around the world celebrate Christmas on December 25. In many countries, it is the biggest single holiday of the year. 

Why is it celebrated on December 25? Is there any historical basis for this date and if not, then why do we celebrate it on this date?


Learn more about why we celebrate Christmas when we do on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Snuggle up for the holidays with two NPR favorites

It's the holiday season so we at Book Of The Day wanted to bring you two of our holiday favorites. The first is David Sedaris' Santaland Diaries, which first aired on Morning Edition in 1992 and has been an annual NPR tradition ever since. It's a hilarious recounting of his time as a department store elf named Crumpet. The second is some of our staff here at NPR reading the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, which you might know as The Night Before Christmas. Happy holidays "...and to all a good night!"

Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of Santa Claus

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He sees you when you are waking, he knows when you are asleep, and he puts your name on a list. 

No, I’m not talking about an omnipresent surveillance state, I’m of course talking about Santa Claus.

If you think of Santa, you probably have a very firm idea of what he looks like, but how did this identity get developed? And where did all the lore around him come from?


Learn more about the history of Santa Claus and how his legend came to be, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Agatha Of Little Neon’ falls out of love with the church

In the novel Agatha Of Little Neon, a young woman, Agatha, is in need of direction after she loses her mother and finds it in the church. When Agatha and her fellow nuns are reassigned to a half-way house, they start to look inward and reevaluate their own lives. Author Claire Luchette told NPR's Scott Simon that this is a book about finding yourself, but also finding out about the darker side of the church: "My goal in writing this book was not to write a loss-of-faith story but almost a falling-out-of-love story."

Everything Everywhere Daily - The World’s Strangest Christmas Traditions

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Christmas is the time of year where we celebrate traditions that have been developed over centuries. 

However, traditions can vary from place to place and not all traditions are old. Some traditions are very modern. 

…and some traditions are downright bizarre. 

Learn more about the world’s strangest Christmas traditions on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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