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Part Two: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas

Behind the Bastards

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Is There a Protester Named Christmas?

In London, armed soldiers had to break up an unruly crowd to stop the crowd from hanging holly in Norwich. 40 people were killed when the city's ammunition stockpile caught fire in the rioting. In Canterbury, which is actually a city in England and not just the name of a book I was supposed to read in high school, they rioted. These are called the plum pudding riots. The mayor went through the market and forced everyone to open their stalls for fear. He would throw you in the stocks if you wouldn't open your stalls at the market. So an angry mob followed behind, trashing every shop that opened. And then in a move that sounds like someone making fun

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