Mount Snow hopes to set Santa record
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Mount Snow will be jolly this weekend when as many as 500 men and women deck out in snowy white beards, black boots and red suits lined with white fuzz with the goal of breaking the Guinness Book of World Records for most Santa Claus impersonators in one place.
This will be the area’s second […]

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Dutch Santa visits kids
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Doris Ingram looks forward to it every year.
So do her children.
“It’s a really Merry Christmas tradition for the children,” said the director of the Ben Donnell day-care facility of Child Care Inc.
Twenty of the day-care’s toddler-aged children were visited Tuesday by none other than Santa Claus himself.
But this wasn’t your granddad’s Santa Claus; this was […]

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Santa supplier starts a trend
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It’s a holiday tradition — the annual photo with Santa, a professionally made memento of the season.
In fact, the tradition started in Puget Sound.
It was in 1943 that Art French, a Seattle sports photographer with an office across from the Fredrick and Nelson’s department store, decided it was a good idea to capture […]

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Experts say Santa should move to Kyrgyzstan
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Forget the North Pole.
Santa Claus and his elves should set up shop in Kyrgyzstan to optimize the delivery of Christmas gifts to 2.5 billion homes worldwide.
That’s according to Swedish engineering consulting firm SWECO, which calculated Santa’s optimal journey based on a range of factors from the Earth’s rotation to which areas of the planet are […]

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North Pole, Alaska: Santa Central
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NORTH POLE, Alaska - It’s early December here, and Mr. and Mrs. Claus are certainly busy.
For starters, there are all those visitors who have dropped by their spacious white-and-red house to sit on Santa’s lap and tell him exactly what they want for Christmas.
In the back, the elves - including dozens of extra little hands […]

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Tracking Santa’s Sleigh with Google Earth
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I have hung the stockings and this weekend I’m off to get the tree. If you have young children at home or if you’re just a kid at heart, you’ll like what Google and NORAD are up to. A tradition of tracking Santa Claus, which was started in 1955, is still happening today, but thanks […]

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NORAD’s Santa-Tracking Website Opens for 2007 Season
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In advance of the holiday season and its 52nd season of tracking Santa Claus on his annual journey around the world, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has activated its “NORAD Tracks Santa” website for 2007.
The U.S.-Canadian command’s program began in 1955 when an errant phone call was made to NORAD’s predecessor, the […]

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Santa Claus is coming to town — for 34 microseconds
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Christmas is hectic for all but particularly for Santa, who must live in Kyrgyzstan and make his rounds at lightning speed if he is to deliver gifts to all the world’s children on time, a Swedish consultancy has concluded.
Between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, Santa Claus’s route around the planet includes stops at 2.5 billion […]

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1 in 10: Santa Claus is a biblical character
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More than 11 percent of the Dutch believes that Santa Claus is a character from the Bible. This emerged on Wednesday from a poll of 2,700 people by website Vergelijk.nl.
Only 2 percent thinks that commercial competitor Saint Nicholas (Sinterklaas) is a biblical figure.
More than 50 percent of respondents believes Santa Claus is […]

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NORAD set to track Santa Claus
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Children from around the world will again have help from the Canadian and U.S. military’s NORAD website to keep tabs on Santa’s location as Christmas approaches.
“Last year the website received over 940 million hits from 210 countries and territories,” Acting Sub-Lieut. David Lavallee said from Winnipeg today.
“I can remember myself sitting in front of the […]

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Santa looking forward to children’s letters
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Working at a newspaper means you experience it all.
Reporters are asked to enter the depths of prisons, stand alongside the coroner at murder scenes, travel into battle with soldiers and question governmental leaders with no mercy.
We represent you — the reader — when you can’t be there. And we take the duty seriously.
So, Tuesday I […]

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Santa Claus laughs in the face of irrelevant political correctness
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Of all the classic Monty Python moments, few are as memorable as the Black Knight. This is the sword-wielding character who guards a bridge in the movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
In a battle with King Arthur, the Black Knight’s arms and legs are severed. Ever confident, he proclaims “’tis but a scratch” and […]

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Marketplace Santa swoops into town by helicopter
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Santa Claus has visited The Marketplace mall many times before but never with such a grand entrance.
On Saturday, Kris Kringle arrived at the mall via helicopter, touching down at the north parking lot. Dressed in his traditional attire of black boots and a red suit lined with white fur with a matching cap, Santa waved […]

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Not too early for Santa at mall
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Santa Claus kicked off the holiday season in Vernon Hills Saturday with a free breakfast, carolers and a parade through Westfield Hawthorn shopping center.
Families posed for photos with the jolly elf in the food court, while sharing breakfast.
“Free food — it rocks,” 9-year-old Tatiana Lehocky said, as she munched on scrambled eggs courtesy of McDonald’s.
Lehocky’s […]

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Send a letter to Santa at Christmas post room
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FATHER Christmas is moving one of his postrooms from Lapland to a town centre in north Kent.
Children can visit the attraction in Gravesend to write letters to Father Christmas.
It will be staffed by three elves every Friday and Saturday from November 24 to December 22.
Work is now under way to fit out 76 High Street […]

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Santa Claus preparing his list
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Santa Claus was doling out kisses and teddy bears to daycare children this morning as the plans for this year’s annual downtown parade were unveiled.
The Santa Claus parade will take place Saturday Nov. 17 beginning at 11 a.m. and run east along Ste. Catherine St. from Fort St. to St. Urbain St.
Fifteen floats, […]

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In UK Santa arrives in bits
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MANCHESTER’S new-look Santa was in pieces yesterday - scattered across Albert Square.
But if all goes to plan, the 32ft Father Christmas will have pulled himself together today ready to be hoisted into place.
Unlike his inflatable predecessors, he won’t be heading for the town hall roof. Instead, he’ll take pride of place on a platform of […]

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Preparing The Orangeburg Parks for Santa
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The Orangeburg Parks and Recreation Department’s elves have been busy preparing for Santa’s arrival in the city by creating a “Winter Wonderland” he can really appreciate.
A 10-member elf crew and an elf from the Orangeburg Department of Public Utilities have been secretly setting up “signs” and “road maps” for Santa and his eight reindeer at […]

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Playing Santa Claus for the first time is a treat for this man
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Chris Davis is not a famous man. But in about two weeks he’ll be surrounded by throngs of people eager to get even a moment of his time.
But it’s not Davis they’ll want to see.
It’s the man Davis is pretending to be: Father Christmas. Pere Noel. Kris Kringle, the head honcho himself, Santa Claus.
“It’ll be […]

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It takes more than a suit for today’s Santa to deliver the goods
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“Ho, ho, ho,” a deep, cheerful voice booms from behind the front door.
When Tom Craighead walks into the room, the young children’s eyes widen with awe as they stare at the jolly man in the red suit.
When they get near him, many tug at his white beard - just to check, he said.
“It’s really Santa!” […]

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New Rule: One Santa Per Parade Rules Them All
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Canada — An unexpected name has landed on the London Santa Claus parade’s naughty list.
Toy Shoppe of London owner Clyde Walton, whose floats have long been a popular staple for 14 years, has been banned in what he calls a Grinch-like response from the private group that’s taken over the event.
“What is going […]

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10,001 Santas on Derry’s Walls?
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TEN thousand and one Santas are planning to man Derry’s Walls next Christmas.
The aim will be to raise money for local charities – and to get the Maiden City into the Guinness Book of Records.
There was a shock for shoppers in the January sales in Londonderry on Saturday afternoon, when they were met by the […]

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Santa Clauses come to town
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There were tall Santas, and short ones, thin ones, and ones still recovering from eating so many Christmas Eve cookies.
Some had curly mustaches, some had fluffy beards, one had no facial hair at all.
As they began to tell stories during their reunion in St. Augustine on Saturday, however, it was clear the Santas had one […]

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Summit of Santas
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Isn’t this a little like leaving your Christmas lights up until February?
Barry and Lesa Walzberg of Clovis are on the promenade deck of the Queen Mary in late January dressed as Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus. They aren’t the only ones.
Attendees of a luncheon for the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas are arriving in […]

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Church ban for Father Christmas
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A vicar in Dorset has defended his decision to ban Father Christmas from a church carol service.
Reverend Tim Storey, who was leading the service at St Peter and St Paul’s Church in Blandford, asked Henry Cuff to remove a costume he was wearing.
Mr Cuff, a member of the town’s Lions Club, refused to take the […]

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