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Last Monday, the anniversary of St. Nicholas, otherwise called Santa Claus, was celebrated at Protestant Hall, at Mr. Waldron's; where a great number of sons of the ancient saint the Sons of Saint Nicholas celebrated the day with great joy and festivity." Rivington's Gazette (New York City), 23 December 1773. Yule Lads— a group of Icelandic figures who may leave gifts or rotting potatoes in the days before Christmas Santa Claus, Indiana—a small Midwestern United States town named after the figure, and home to Holiday World amusement park Venice, ItalyA typical boat of the lagoon festooned with tinsel leads vessels along the Grand Canal. Awakened Mink: 1.3x damage and damage reduction. 3.5x speed, 2x dash and geppo speed.Grants access to the Electric V2 fighting style.

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Santa Claus appears in a few video games. [49] Traditions and rituals Chimneys The Feast of Saint Nicholas by Jan Steen (c. 1665–1668) Largest gathering of Santa Claus". Guinness World Records. 27 December 2014. Archived from the original on 2 October 2021 . Retrieved 18 October 2020. In Slovenia, Saint Nicholas (Miklavž) also brings small gifts for good children on the eve of 6 December. Božiček (Christmas Man) brings gifts on the eve of 25 December, and Dedek Mraz (Grandfather Frost) brings gifts in the evening of 31 December to be opened on New Years Day. a b "How to deal with the 'is Santa real?' ". The Dominion Post. Archived from the original on 19 December 2010 . Retrieved 7 November 2011.Writing in Mothering, writer Carol Jean-Swanson makes similar points, noting that the original figure of St. Nicholas gave only to those who were needy and that today Santa Claus seems to be more about conspicuous consumption:

century A man dressed as Santa Claus fundraising for Volunteers of America on the sidewalk of street in Chicago, Illinois, in 1902. He is wearing a mask with a beard attached.

The 1956 popular song by George Melachrino, "Mrs. Santa Claus", and the 1963 children's book How Mrs. Santa Claus Saved Christmas, by Phyllis McGinley, helped standardize and establish the character and role of Mrs. Claus in the US. [41] Kutner, Lawrence (21 November 1991). "Children can learn the wrong lessons from little lies". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023 . Retrieved 24 April 2023. Victor, Daniel (25 December 2018). "Kids, Please Don't Read This Article on What Trump Said About Santa Claus". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 4 September 2023. Otnes, Cele; Kim, Kyungseung; Kim, Young Chan (1994). "Yes, Virginia, there is a gender difference: Analyzing children's requests to Santa Claus". Journal of Popular Culture. 28 (1): 23. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1994.2801_17.x. a b c "No small job for postal elves, 15 Dec 2010". Universal Postal Union – UPU. Archived from the original on 22 December 2010 . Retrieved 17 December 2010.

Mikkelson, David (18 December 2008). "Did Coca-Cola Invent the Modern Image of Santa Claus?". Snopes.com. Archived from the original on 25 December 2021 . Retrieved 1 January 2023.The story that Santa Claus lives at the North Pole may also have been a Nast creation. 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." [30] A color 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 home was "near the North Pole, in the ice and snow". [31] The tale had become well known by the 1870s. A boy from Colorado writing to the children's magazine The Nursery in late 1874 said, "If we did not live so very far from the North Pole, I should ask Santa Claus to bring me a donkey."