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According to historical records, Santa is real.He's real in the sense that he was an actual person. Otherwise known as Saint Nicholas, his story goes all the way back to the 3rd century.
Santa has been described as a positive male cultural icon: Santa is really the only cultural icon we have who's male, does not carry a gun, and is all about peace, joy, giving, and caring for other people. That's part of the magic for me, especially in a culture where we've become so commercialized and hooked into manufactured icons.
First, Santa spoiler alert! And, parents, you what we mean. When Melissa Marion's 8-year-old son, Johnny, came home from school saying that a classmate had said Santa wasn’t real, she knew just ...
The effort parents put into promoting the myth really does seem to influence how deeply their kids believe, but the discovery that Santa isn’t real may be harder on parents than on their kids.
Original editorial in The Sun of September 21, 1897 "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is a line from an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church.Written in response to a letter by eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon asking whether Santa Claus was real, the editorial was first published in the New York newspaper The Sun on September 21, 1897.
Where does 'Yes, Virginia' come from? In 1897, an editorial writer from the New York Sun answered a letter from a little girl wondering about Santa Claus.
In the spring of 2019, an RfC regarding the lead section of the Santa Claus article was held on whether the lead section should be "agnostic" about the existence of Santa Claus. The end result was that editors agreed that the lead section of the article should make it clear that Santa Claus does not exist, in line with policies such as WP ...
While characters resembling Santa Claus have circulated throughout the world for centuries, the notion of a sleigh pulled by reindeer wouldn’t become prominent until the 19th century.