I've seen every suggestion, from adding plain sugar to crushed aspirin. This year is different, though. I've decided to skip all of that self-research and go straight to a bonafide Christmas tree ...

Her Elkton, Maryland, home was built with lumber cut from a former Rockefeller Center Christmas tree — which was processed into lumber and given to a charity group after delighting Manhattan ...

Christmas trees were introduced into the UK in 1800 by Queen Charlotte, the German wife of George III. Each year a large tree is given to the UK as a gift by the people of Oslo in Norway.