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When does the NORAD Santa tracker go live? The NORAD Tracks Santa website went live Dec. 1 and features Santa's North Pole Village, which includes a holiday countdown, games, holiday music and more.
Santa has finished his epic journey around the world, having delivered almost eight million gifts. He stopped off at every home to drop 7,883,693,263 presents over the course of Christmas Eve.
Santa Claus has packed his sleigh with toys for all the good kids and he has made sure the reindeer are secured for takeoff. Now, they are traveling around the world to visit millions of households.
The "Santa Cam" videos show CGI images of Santa flying over famous landmarks. Each video was accompanied by a voice-over until the end of the 2011 season, typically done by NORAD personnel, giving a few facts about the city or country depicted. In 2012, the voice overs were replaced with music done by the US Air Force Band.
Santa has been described as a positive male cultural icon: Santa is really the only cultural icon we have who's male, does not carry a gun, and is all about peace, joy, giving, and caring for other people. That's part of the magic for me, especially in a culture where we've become so commercialized and hooked into manufactured icons.
A filled Christmas stocking. A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that is hung on Saint Nicholas Day or Christmas Eve so that Saint Nicholas (or the related figures of Santa Claus and Father Christmas) can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins or other small gifts when he arrives.
On Dec. 24, the command will start tracking Santa's journey around the world from 4 a.m. to midnight Mountain Standard Time. Callers can dial 1-877-HI-NORAD to ask live operators about Santa's ...
The military will track Santa with, “the same technology we use every single day to keep North America safe,” said U.S. Air Force Col. Elizabeth Mathias, NORAD’s chie Military command ready ...