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According to Woolley, the existence of Santa Claus is affirmed to children by "friends, books, TV and movies" and by "hard evidence" of "half-eaten cookies and empty milk glasses". [157] Typical objections to presenting Santa Claus as a literally real person, rather than a story, include: that lying is normally bad, [148]
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.
In 1897, an editorial writer from the New York Sun answered a letter from a little girl wondering about Santa Claus. ... there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and ...
But eventually, kids naturally wonder how Santa visits so many houses in one night (easy — he's magic), how he eats so many cookies without being sick (practice) and, sadly, whether he exists at ...
In 1897, Mitchell gave Church a letter written to The Sun by 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, who wanted to know whether there truly is a Santa Claus. [15] In Church's 416-word response, [7] he wrote that Santa exists "as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist". [16] "
Researchers looked into the existence of Santa and found the results "inconclusive." A 10-year-old girl sent police a DNA sample to determine if Santa Claus is real. A full-scale investigation is ...
Some people believe the Holocaust never happened (and even offer "proof"). To tell falsehoods about Santa (e.g., to falsely claim that Santa is a currently living magical being) violates the core policy Wikipedia:Verifiability; to fail to tell the truth (e.g., to omit the fact that Santa is not a currently living person) violates Wikipedia ...
Keep Santa, but get rid of the concept of naughty and nice “In Santa's eyes, you’re either ‘naughty’ or ‘nice.’ This doesn’t capture the complexity of humans, what they’re really like.