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Santa Claus' origins date back to about 280 A.D. when St. Nicholas was born, the History Channel reports. This would make Santa approximately 1,744 years old today. This would make Santa ...
The image of Santa Claus shares similarities with the English figure of Father Christmas, and they are both now popularly regarded as the same person. [4] Santa is generally depicted as a portly, jolly, white-bearded man, often with spectacles, wearing a red coat with white fur collar and cuffs, white-fur-cuffed red trousers, a red hat trimmed ...
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.
The first known English personification of Christmas was associated with merry-making, singing and drinking. A carol attributed to Richard Smart, Rector of Plymtree in Devon from 1435 to 1477, has 'Sir Christemas' announcing the news of Christ's birth and encouraging his listeners to drink: "Buvez bien par toute la compagnie, / Make good cheer and be right merry, / And sing with us now ...
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.
Charles Willis Howard (June 15, 1896 – May 1, 1966) was an American actor and teacher most famous for portraying Santa Claus in department stores and parades. In 1937, he established the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School which today is the oldest continuously-run Santa school in the world.
A Santa suit is a suit worn by a person portraying the legendary figure Santa Claus. The modern American version of the suit can be attributed to the work of Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly magazine, although it is often thought that Haddon Sundblom designed the suit in his advertising work for The Coca-Cola Company .
Upon seeing Kris K., the woman tells the person on the phone that she just met Santa Claus who is “weirdly hot.” On YouTube, the 15-second ad has been viewed more than seven million times.