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A peak at the 100-year-old history of the printed Advent calendar

Different customs prepare us for the Christmas festivities long before Christmas Eve. The Advent calendar is one of them. Some inventive parents in the middle of the nineteenth century thought of a good way to help children count the seemingly endless days until Christmas Eve.