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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.
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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 ...
In North America, mandarins are commonly purchased in 5- or 10-pound boxes, [5] individually wrapped in soft green paper, and given in Christmas stockings. This custom goes back to the 1880s when Japanese immigrants in Canada and the United States began receiving Japanese mandarin oranges from their families back home as gifts for the New Year.
In combinatorics, the hockey-stick identity, [1] Christmas stocking identity, [2] boomerang identity, Fermat's identity or Chu's Theorem, [3] states that if ...
He had 14 stories published under various pseudonyms while he was in prison but was becoming best known as "O. Henry", a pseudonym that first appeared over the story "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" in the December 1899 issue of McClure's Magazine. A friend of his in New Orleans would forward his stories to publishers so that they had no ...
The Yule cat (Icelandic: Jólakötturinn, IPA: [ˈjouːlaˌkʰœhtʏrɪn], also called Jólaköttur and the Christmas cat [1]) is a huge and vicious cat from Icelandic Christmas folklore that is said to lurk in the snowy countryside during the Christmas season and eat people who do not receive new clothing before Christmas Eve.
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