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If you look in the net for the first snowman, you will find different opinions, from certain inventor to giving credit to no one, but just another humankind achievement. Here is a certain story, you will decide whether to believe it or not. The first snowman was made on January, the 7^th, 1809 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The man who “wins” the snowman inventor contest is Vernon N. Paul and his 9 years old daughter – Yetty. He told her that man of snow will guard her presents from the Boxing Day elves (they are believed to reclaim Christmas presents). Yetty spread out the story among the other children in town and soon I front of every house there was a guard – a snowman.

Not a long after that the reporter Hillary Sherpa from NY Times came to this part of America to check that popular already story.

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It is known that ancient Chinese had exchanged greetings of good will to celebrate New Year. During 1400s Germans had printed New Year greetings from woodcuts. The first commercial Christmas card was released by Sir Henry Cole (Director of the London Victoria and Albert Museum, pioneer of the penny post. The year was 1843, the illustrator - John Callocott Horsley. The words that were written on the card said: “merry Christmas and happy New Year to you”.

On 24.11.2001 one of the few survived cards (it is believed that only 10 of them can be find nowadays from the 1000 copies)was sold for £22 500 . Cole sent it to his Granny and Auntie Chak. All that made it the most expensive and rarest Christmas card.

In 2005 another original was auctioned. The lucky purchaser was Jakki Brown in Pevizes. It was sent to Miss Mary Tripsack. This 162 years old card got the price of $16 000. The first official Christmas card sent from the White House was during President Dwight D. Eisenhower.