“The law says that every teacher, all public-school teachers, have to post the Ten Commandments in the front of their classroom, in a certain size font, and that they’re legally obligated to do this.
The gist of it is this: In 1087 two Italian cities, Venice and Bari, raced to be the first to steal the bones of St. Nicholas—known to us as Santa Claus—from a basilica in what is now southern Turkey.
We have been thinking this month about the traditions and practices associated with the celebration of Christmas. Some of the celebrations were purposefully used to replace parties and festivals of ...