Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Folklorist Margaret Baker maintains that "the appearance of Santa Claus or Father Christmas, whose day is the 25th of December, owes much to Odin, the old blue-hooded, cloaked, white-bearded Giftbringer of the north, who rode the midwinter sky on his eight-footed steed Sleipnir, visiting his people with gifts.
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 ...
Various Christmas-themed games, quizzes and a family guide are available on Google's Santa Tracker. USA TODAY will also live stream Santa's journey beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday. You can watch it below:
Our modern-day shopping mall Santa was first depicted by Thomas Nast, a cartoonist for Harper's Weekly from 1859-1886. Soon to follow would be an evolution in Santa's appearance after 1931, when ...
Modern dictionaries consider the terms Father Christmas and Santa Claus to be synonymous. [98] [99] The respective characters are now to all intents and purposes indistinguishable, although some people are still said to prefer the term 'Father Christmas' over 'Santa Claus', nearly 150 years after Santa Claus's arrival in England. [1]
The character recurred throughout mass media of the time, with notable literary examples including the 1914 one-act play Mrs. Santa Claus, Militant by Bell Elliott Palmer, the 1923 story The Great Adventure of Mrs. Santa Claus by Sarah Addington illustrated by Gertrude Kay, and the 1963 children's book How Mrs. Santa Claus Saved Christmas by Phyllis McGinley.
Clement Moore's 'Visit From St. Nicholas' with Santa riding sleigh Credit - Bettmann Archive. J ust prior to Christmas in 1823, a poem called “A Visit from St. Nicholas” appeared in the Troy ...
The Story of Santa Claus is a 1996 CBS animated television special directed by Toby Bluth. It features the voices of Ed Asner, Betty White, and Tim Curry. The special presents an origin story for Santa Claus, who is depicted as a man named Nicholas Claus who wishes to give every child in the world a gift for Christmas. The elves of the North ...