We’re in London’s West End for Boxing Day, a holiday that originated in the UK. It’s said the event takes its name from the historic practice of employers giving their servants and tradespeople boxes of gifts on the day after Christmas (since the servants had to work on Christmas Day). These days, the holiday shopping deals rival those on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, particularly in the UK, Australia, and Canada, but increasingly in other countries as well. Are you celebrating Boxing Day?
Boxing Day—a shopper’s delight
Today in History
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Forward-thinking women of history
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Racers pushing past sunflowers in the 2018 Tour de France
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Flocking together in the Antarctic
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Old Town Quito
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Plate ice along Lake Superior, Grand Marais, Minnesota
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Pearl Harbor Day
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Brown pelican, San Diego, California
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Too awesome to be a planet
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Mother s Day
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A stroll above the stratosphere
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Bluebells in Hertfordshire, England
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Wheels up in Beijing
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Blue linckia sea stars in Papua New Guinea
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Dark Sky Week
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International Museum Day
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In Texas, even the riverbend is big
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East River crossing
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Fibonacci Day
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Nothing plain about it
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Taking the forest to the cloud
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Sand, sun, and sk8ers
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Super sandy Sweet 16
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
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Happy Mother s Day!
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Replica of a Viking home in Dublin National Botanic Gardens, Ireland
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It s National Hispanic Heritage Month
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Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil
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Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
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International Jazz Day
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A house of grand scale(s)
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