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December is here and, as expected, Santa and his elves are busy at work at the North Pole. After all, there are last-minute toys to finish cobbling and names to add to the "Nice List," before the ...
Santa Claus, as we know him today, first appeared in Harper’s Magazine in 1863 through an illustration by Thomas Nast. He was depicted as a plump elf with a beard, a hat, and, of course, as a ...
The most ideal way to do that, at least to us, is by reading these funny Christmas quotes. Some of these quotes, sayings, and jokes would make a clever Christmas Instagram caption !
Mrs. Santa Claus is mentioned by name in the pages of the Yale Literary Magazine in 1851, where the student author (whose name is given only as "A. B.") writes of the appearance of Santa Claus at a Christmas party: [I]n bounded that jolly, fat and funny old elf, Santa Claus. His array was indescribably fantastic.
His Christmas image in the Harper's issue dated 29 December 1866 was a collage of engravings titled Santa Claus and His Works, which included the caption "Santa Claussville, N.P." [34] A colour collection of Nast's pictures, published in 1869, had a poem also titled "Santa Claus and His Works" by George P. Webster, who wrote that Santa Claus's ...
Santa Claus (5 C, 56 P) Santa's helpers (2 C, 13 P) Fictional snowmen (1 C, 21 P) W. Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (19 P) Pages in category "Christmas characters"
Rudolph is usually depicted as the ninth and youngest of Santa Claus's reindeer, using his luminous red nose to lead the reindeer team and guide Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve. Though he initially receives ridicule for his nose as a fawn, the brightness of his nose is so powerful that it illuminates the team's path through harsh winter weather.
In fact, the origins of Santa Claus can be traced all the way back to a monk named Saint Nicholas, who was born between 260 and 280 A.D. in a village called Patara, which is part of modern-day Turkey.