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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. Legendary sleigh-pulling flying reindeer A parade float with a model of Santa's reindeer and sleigh in the Toronto Santa Claus Parade, 2009 In traditional Western festive legend and popular culture, Santa Claus's reindeer are said to pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus ...
The Nast Christmas cartoon for 1864 was a more conciliatory piece, showing Lincoln inviting Confederate soldiers into a warm lodge hall full of merriment. [18] Lincoln called Nast's use of Santa Claus "the best recruiting sergeant the North ever had". [6] Nast was not the only one to use Christmas as a propaganda tool.
The 34th Salvation Army Christmas Family Feast at the Baird Center featured 4,000 meals, songs, gifts and an appearance by Santa Claus.
Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a 19th-century American slave trader active in the lower Mississippi River valley, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and the first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, serving from 1867 to 1869.
In Wisconsin, the village of Kohler stood out as the most Christmassy town in the state, according to HGTV. The small village has a population of just over 2,000 and is only 10 minutes from Sheboygan.
The United States Army Rangers are elite U.S. Army personnel who have served in any unit which has held the official designation of "Ranger". [1] [2] The term is commonly used to include graduates of the Ranger School, even if they have never served in a "Ranger" unit; the vast majority of Ranger school graduates never serve in Ranger units and are considered "Ranger qualified".
If temps reach 51 on Christmas Eve, this year will also boast the seventh-warmest Christmas Eve in Milwaukee's recorded history. "I think the more interesting thing is actually the lows Christmas ...
Four of the dead were members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies, a dance group composed solely of grandmothers. [27] [28] Hospitals admitted twenty-eight people, nine of whom were in critical condition. [22] [25] [29] Seventeen children were among the wounded, [19] [26] with three remaining hospitalized at Children's Wisconsin until early December.