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First, Santa spoiler alert! And, parents, you know what we mean. When Melissa Marion's 8-year-old son, Johnny, came home from school saying that a classmate had said Santa wasn’t real, she knew ...
Parents, please be advised that the following story contains frank, adult discussion about Santa. (Whatever the experts say, we're not taking any chances with putting ourselves on the naughty list.)
Like Maverick, McDaniel was 13 when he learned about Santa. “My parents had gone through a divorce. It was a whole mess. We were coming off a downer year,” he says, chuckling heartily about it ...
Or if they say that this is the birthday of the sun, well He Himself is the Sun of Justice. [ 32 ] In a mid fifth century Christmas sermon, Pope Leo I rebukes those "who hold the pernicious belief that our celebration today seems to derive ... from, as they say, the rising of the 'new sun'."
An example of a public and private cooperative venture is the opportunity for expatriate and local children and parents to receive postmarked mail and greeting cards from Santa during December in the Finnish Embassy in Beijing, People's Republic of China, [99] Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland, and the People's Republic of China Postal ...
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 ...
In college I majored in history and went on to get my master’s and Ph.D. in medieval history. My first job was teaching (you guessed it) ninth grade world history.
Is Santa Claus real? Of course! Here's everything to know about the real story of Santa Claus, from the legend of Saint Nick to the modern-day jolly man in red.