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‘O Holy Night’ was translanted from a French carol By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com A traditional symbol of the Christmas season, wreaths are made of evergreens to represent everlasting life brought about by the birth of Jesus, while the circular shape of the wreath symbolizes God, with no beginning and no end. Tim Colliver | The Times-Gazette Editor’s Note — It’s been said that Christmas is one of the few holidays that has its own “sound track.” The Times-Gazette...

The choir of Kings College Cambridge performs the traditional Christmas concert Credit: Benjamin Sheen The nation has spoken, the list is in, and Songs of Praise yesterday revealed the UK’s Top 10 Favourite Christmas Carols. We sing them in churches, chapels, streets and schools every year, wrap presents and decorate our Christmas trees to their accompaniment, know all the words by heart – but how much do we know about the stories behind them?  Here are just some of the histories and contr...