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Santa Camp is a 2022 documentary film about a training camp for people to learn the roles of Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, and the elves, run by the New England Santa Society in New Hampshire. [1] The film focuses on the camp's efforts to address the lack of diversity in the portrayal of Santa, and follows three new trainees: a Black Santa, a ...
Santa Claus (also known as Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle or Santa) is a legendary figure [1] originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts during the late evening and overnight hours on Christmas Eve.
Here's a history lesson on ol' Saint Nick. How old is Santa? Santa Claus' origins date back to about 280 A.D. when St. Nicholas was born, the History Channel reports. This would make Santa ...
In 1994, German mail-order catalog company Otto Versand put supermodel Cindy Crawford on the cover of their fall/winter catalog edition, and decided to produce a related TV commercial; the theme was to be "Thanks To Our Catalog, This Year Santa's Going To Need A LOT Of Help!"—and would feature ten Santas bustling up and down Paramount's Brownstone Street set, bumping into one another as they ...
The movie reminds Christian Americans of the Nazi crimes and uses them to convey villainy, without engaging antisemitism or Jewish people at all. ... Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town is a classic ...
Modern dictionaries consider the terms Father Christmas and Santa Claus to be synonymous. [98] [99] The respective characters are now to all intents and purposes indistinguishable, although some people are still said to prefer the term 'Father Christmas' over 'Santa Claus', nearly 150 years after Santa Claus's arrival in England. [1]
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 Church's 416-word response, [7] he wrote that Santa exists "as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist". [16] "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" [17] became Church's best-known work and the most reprinted editorial in newspaper history. [18]