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───   17:19 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 How much are you willing to pay for a Christmas card? The worlds first commercially printed Christmas card, originally marketed in 1843, is being sold through a Boston-based book dealer for $25,000. The card, created by Henry Cole, John Calcott Horsley and Joseph Cundall in the same year that Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published, shows a large family -- including a young girl -- gathered around a table drinking glasses of wine. Th...

The ’60s are back! The rockets of the ’60s, anyway.  That mystery space object that has been orbiting the Earth recently has finally been identified, and it’s exactly what scientists thought it might be: a rocket booster from the September 20, 1966, Surveyor 2 mission to the moon. The Surveyor 2 crashed on the moon but this rocket flew off into space and has been travelling around for the past 54 years.   How long ago was this? Star Trek had just premiered, Jimi Hendrix was still call...

This 2017 photo shows the first commercially produced Christmas card dated December, 1843. The card, a hand-colored lithograph designed in England by John Callcott Horsley, is among the rare holiday-themed items being sold online. (Dennis M V David/Battledore Ltd via AP) The first commercially printed Christmas card is up for sale — a merry Victorian-era scene that scandalised some who denounced it as humbug when it first appeared in 1843. The card, being sold online starting Friday through a...

The first commercially printed Christmas card is going up for sale.