Other Names for Santa Around the World History of Santa Around the World Odin, Sleipnir Sinterklaas (Dutch Santa Claus) Father Christmas (British Santa Claus) Christkindl or “Kris Kringle” (German Santa Claus) Père Noël (French Santa Claus) History of Santa Claus in America The Coca-Co...
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Children all over the world write letters to Santa Claus, but they don't all go to the North Pole - many of them go to Indiana. There is a town in Indiana called Santa Claus and it is considered to be 'America's Christmas Hometown.' In fact, the city gets hundreds of thousands of...
Scatman Crothers Terre Haute, Indiana, USA 272 votes Bald, wide-eyed character player with a raspy voice whose career reached its peak in the 1970s and early 80s with several memorable screen roles (e.g. Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" 1980) and the popular TV show "Chico and the M...
Santa Claus is popular in Chile. As in the traditional U.S. outfit, he has a beard, but he wears the traditional folk dance outfit of Chile with open shirt, rolled-up sleeves, woolen socks, and sandals. Chilean Americans have, in general, kept the tradition of opening presents at ...
“Christmas” is a construction of our post-World War II consumer society. Our Christmas and Santa Claus paraphenalia is made in Asian countries that aren’t Christian and had no clue who Santa was until they started sewing millions of Santa suits for pennies a day. Russians celebrate New ...
Indianapolis: Max Kade German-American Center, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis; Nashville, Indiana: Produced and distributed by NCSA LITERATUR, 1995. Kloss, Heinz. Atlas of German-American Settlements. Marburg: Elwert, 1974. News from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants...
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This Joe Johnston film (which was released to theaters just 8 weeks after Disney-MGM first opened to the public) was the surprise hit of the Summer of 1989. “Honey” actually wound up being the fifth highest grossing film of that year, just behind “Batman,”“Indiana Jones and the Last...