(As a side note, Snopes does not recommend setting your Christmas tree on fire.) But the bad news: A Latvian historian, Gustavs Strenga, said neither claim was that accurate. Strenga talked with ...

You're all familiar with the Christmas song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" I think. To most it's a delightful nonsense rhyme set to music. But it had a quite serious purpose when it was written ...