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Christ (1st Century) ,you can change topic to "Christianity Tree", but I am pretty sure Jesus did not celebrate his birthday on Dec 25th with Trees. If non of previous sentence are correct and you accept it has rooted before 1st Century and other Cultures had symbolized it as eternal life, you can not eliminate it`s time period just to your desired time and do not look at other periods and Civilizations that had Evergreen Coniform Tree. And By the way, I just looked at one of references and want to know more about that, How can some one accepted The reference No 26 it is clearly a Yellow magazine. I heard they only accept first hand research based article and you deleted my writing because of that!
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Trees were often (and still are) regarded as sacred in different cultures around the world. I think what has to be shown with reliable sources is a connection between Cypress tree and Yalda in Persia/Iran and the Christmas tree as that is what the article is about. Connections can however, be ancient
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Great that you are replying. Are we concern about Renaissance-era only period (14th Century onward)? if so, there are paragraphs about ancient Egyptian and Chinese and Jews. I am sure they are not from that era, and you way want to delete that parts from article. If you are connecting it to The Jesus
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Ohhh James, great that you are here. Because I added paragraph about one specific civilization that is Persians, that have books and ancient poems and also stone depiction of evergreen trees and symbolizing it as everlasting life and standing against winter coldness and darkness and you delete that!!
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Parker, Rick (2003). Introduction to Food Science. Albany, New York: Delmar/Thomson Learning. ISBN 0-7668-1314-2 – via Google Books. "In 1670, the choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral gave sugar sticks to his young singers to keep them quiet during the long Living Crèche ceremony. In honor of the
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In American culture using of evergreen trees are backed to 17th century or Germans back to 15th century. It is of great concern to speak about other civilization that used it as specific ritual and on specific time. please share your Idea about adding older history of Evergreen Trees on Christmas
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Cite 31 (31] Huckabee, Tyler (9 December 2021). "No, Christmas Trees Don't Have 'Pagan' Roots". RELEVANT. Retrieved 5 March 2023. ) in reference to quote “ although there are no historical records of that” should be removed because this is a citation from an OPINION ARTICLE by a young freelance
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posted in Knowledge Commons are also of poor quality. I have taken one that is marginal and color corrected, cropped, sharpened it to make it at least somewhat better. I strongly suggest if none of the photos are of good enough quality for you that you either take and submit better photos or
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It is dark and blurry but there still isn't much better. While it will do for now, we still should be on the look out for better images. Similar to the main Christmas tree image for the article the should be in "product shot" style. I have added the
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occasion, he had the candies bent into the shepherd's crooks. In 1847, a German-Swedish immigrant named August Imgard of Wooster, Ohio decorated a small pine tree with paper ornaments and candy canes."
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References must explicitly make a connection between what the Persians were doing with trees and the Renaissance-era practices in Europe. The citations you have been using do not make that connection.
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or a contemporary overlays of an ancient tradition to the Christmas tree. However, it might be better if you work on finding reliable sources for the Cypress tree and Yalda and add it to the article
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writer who lacks credibility because he does not cite any sources at all. History should not be able to be tampered with and rewritten according to opinion!! Please remove this quote and citation.
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I have removed the drawing but instead of returning the old photo of the ringed version, I have added one that depicts the most common type. While drawings can are are used in Knowledge, the
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Edited the language to make it less specific, and added the source mentioned above. No longer says the first, but one of the first, and removed the word popularized.
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He actually does cite his source. The information the journalist wrote about is from Macrobius’ Saturnalia and he credits it as such. You may want to review
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BTW, I love the uncropped photo of the image that is used. It should be used on the main Podłaźniczka page, showing it in context with a holiday activity.
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Ended up removing that sentence altogether, combining it with the next. The article no longer says he was the first or that he popularized it.
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Hey All, I found a source for the claim of August Imgard decorating a pine tree with candy canes on the Candy Cane page, here is a copy below:
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I added references and pictures of inscription of their tree on stone!! and you deleted it it that specific section!!
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is of poor quality and arguably does not do a good job depicting the subject. However, photos of
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to the Podłaźniczka Talk page. Hopefully a good image will eventually be taken/found.
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make an explicit connection. That is not the same as what you are attempting to add.
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to use candy canes for decoration, not to say about "popularizing" this. -
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for further details about why this source is allowed. Change not done.
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for that, where the sources all explicitly mention "Christmas."
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Photos/Illustrations to illustrate the Podłaźniczka subsection
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on Knowledge instead of the Christmas tree article for now.
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Source for August Imgard's Decoration Using Candy Canes
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The source does not say "one of the first" either. -
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