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Beyond the familiar traditions like Santa Claus, a fir tree, caroling and gift-giving, a number of countries—including the U.S.—bring their own unique twists, both old and new, to the holiday.
His Christmas image in the Harper's issue dated 29 December 1866 was a collage of engravings titled Santa Claus and His Works, which included the caption "Santa Claussville, N.P." [34] A colour collection of Nast's pictures, published in 1869, had a poem also titled "Santa Claus and His Works" by George P. Webster, who wrote that Santa Claus's ...
What are Santa Claus' other names around the world? Because Santa Claus travels the globe every Christmas Eve, he has a lot of names in different languages. Some of those include:
In a scene in the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, a Dutch girl recognises Macy's department store Santa as Sinterklaas. They converse in Dutch and sing a Sinterklaas song while she sits on his lap. [61] Santa Claus is portrayed as Sinterklaas in the 1985 film One Magic Christmas: he and his wife have Dutch accents, and she calls him Nicolaas ...
Ded Moroz, and on occasion the Belarusian Dzied Maroz, are presented in the media as being in on-going détente with various counterparts from other cultures, such as the Estonian Santa Claus (Jõuluvana or "Old man of Yule"), the Finnish Santa Claus (Joulupukki or "Yule Goat"), and other Santa Claus, Father Christmas, and Saint Nicholas figures.
24. "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" 25. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" 26. "Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer" 27. "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" 28. "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" 29.
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Santa Claus is also a big tradition for Finnish children. Lehtikuva/REUTERS In Finland (and many other countries around the globe), St. Lucia Day on December 13 is one of the main events of the ...