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First printed Christmas card goes on display

The world's first printed Christmas card has gone on display at London's Charles Dickens Museum, just in time for the start of the festive season. The card, which pictures a family gathered around a table enjoying glasses of wine, was produced by Henry Cole, John Calcott Horsley and Joseph Cundall in 1843. Hand-colored and with blank spaces for the recipient's and sender's names, the card bears the message "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you" and was sent from a son to his parents. The hand-lithographed card－on display since Wednesday at the museum－is one of only 1,000 printed.

'Climate emergency' is Oxford's word of year

"Climate emergency" is the Oxford Word of the Year for 2019. The word－actually a phrase－was chosen from an all-environmental shortlist that also included "climate crisis", "net-zero" and "plant-based". In a statement, Oxford University Press said the Word of the Year is a word or expression shown through usage evidence to reflect the ethos, mood or preoccupations of the passing year. Usage of the phrase "climate emergency" increased steeply over the course of the year and by September was more than 100 times as common as it had been the previous year.