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In 1882, the first Christmas tree was lit by the use of electricity. Edward Johnson lit up a Christmas tree in New York City with eighty small electric light bulbs. It should be noted that Edward Johnson created the first string of electric Christmas lights that were then mass produced around 1890. By 1900, department stores started using the new Christmas lights for their Christmas displays. After that, literally, the sky was the limit. Such it is with a house in Pittsburg where over 210,000 lights are computer animated and synched to music. It took 3 months to hang the lights and over 6 months to do the computer programming.

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NOW THAT YOUR IN THE MOOD, HERES A LIST OF GREAT HOLIDAY LIGHTING EVENTS IN THE TWN CITIES AND ELSEWHERE

Downtown Minneapolis Holidazzle ParadeMinneapolis Christmas lights are on Nicollet Avenue - the stationary ones in the stores that line the pedestrianized mall, and the Holidazzle parade of lights and music that marches down Nicollet on weekend nights between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Downtown Minneapolis Macys Santaland Holiday ShowThe Macys store on Nicollet Avenue traditionally has a lovely holiday window display and inside the store is the annual free Macys Santaland Holiday Show, a huge animatronic holiday display thats enchanted children for generations - the Macys holiday show has been with us almost 50 years. Grand Avenues Grand Meander and Holiday LightsSt. Pauls shopping district, is lined with restaurants, stores and boutiques, many of who have decorated store fronts, as well as the lights on Grand Avenue itself. A fun day to go is during the annual Grand Avenue holiday event, Grand Meander held on December 5th. During the Grand Meander, theres entertainment, music and the Grand Avenue tree lighting ceremony at locations all along Grand Avenue.Taylor Falls Lighting Festival and Christmas LightsThe cute-as-a-button town of Taylors Falls, about an hour north of the Twin Cities, holds a three day annual Lighting Festival November 26th, with parades, reindeer, music, food and entertainment. Historic houses in the town get dressed up for the season and welcome visitors to experience the atmosphere of a Victorian Christmas. goto: www.fallschamber.org Gertens & Linders Garden Center Holiday Lights and displayLinders garden center in St. Paul has an annual holiday display with 80 Christmas trees & 200,000 computer controlled holiday lights. Gertens in Inver Grove Heights has Christmas entertainment during December. Visit with Santa and his reindeer on December weekends. www.linders.com / www.gertens.comLake Phalen Christmas Lights in the ParkThe drive around Lake Phalen gets illuminated with over a million animatronic Christmas lights every year from Thanksgiving until New Years Eve. There is a charge per car to see the lights, but all of the proceeds from the entrance price goes to local charities. www.lightsinthepark.orgSummit Avenue Christmas LightsThis is where some of the grandest Victorian homes in the Twin Cities were built. Homeowners along the avenue often decorate with classic Christmas lights... and some go all-out tacky. The Governors official home and Christmas tree is at 1006 Summit Avenue, with a competing, equally large, Christmas tree directly opposite. The Governors Residence is open for free public tours on the first three Tuesdays of December (1st, 8th and 15th) between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. with live music and a tour of the holiday decorations inside the mansion.Inver Grove Heights Holiday LightsThe citizens of Inver Grove Heights seem to love the holidays a little more than average, and the suburb is a popular destination for driving about and looking out for lights. Drive your own car around, or take a Holiday Light Trolley during the Holiday on Main Street event on December 19. The free trolley rides start at 6.30 p.m. after a day of festive entertainment in Inver Grove Heights. South Saint Paul HolidazeOn Friday December 4, the city of South St. Paul holds the annual Holidaze Celebration with music, Santa, carriage rides, a mitten and hat drive, and the citys tree lighting ceremony at 7 p.m. www.southstpaul.orgPlymouth Lights The owners of 16700 33rd Ave North, in the suburb of Plymouth, love Christmas, Christmas lights, and Christmas music so much that theyve created one of the must legendary holiday light displays in the Twin Cities. Bentleyville Tour of Lights Duluth. Not exactly in the Twin Cities, but if you are heading north this Holiday season, stop by Bentleyville in Duluth. This free attraction recently moved from Nathan Bentleys home in Cloquet to the Bayfront Festival Park in Duluth. There are hundreds of thousands of lights, fire pits for roasting marshmallows, live music on the weekends, and Santa, and its all free. Even the marshmallows. Bentleyville is open from November 27 - January 2 from 5 p.m until 10 p.m. www.bentleyvilleusa.org

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The Appalachian Mountains are the oldest mountain chain in North America which extend from Newfoundland to Alabama. They are made up of various mountains, ridges, and valleys. The Great Smoky Mountains running from Tennessee to North Carolina. The Blue Ridge Mountains which are the backbone of the system extending from Georgia to Pennsylvania. Then there is Mt. Mitchell, the highest mountain in the Appalachians and the eastern coast. It is about 6,684 feet high.Lets Get a Little Bigger The beautiful Rocky Mountains extend some 3,000 miles from the Mexican frontier to the Arctic Ocean, through the western United States and sections of Canada. The Continental Divide is located in these Mountains and is the spot that separates waters fl owing into the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico from those fl owing into the Pacifi c Ocean. The Rockies include at least 100 separate ranges, with four broad groupings: the Canadian Rockies / Northern Rockies of Montana and northeastern Idaho; the Middle Rockies