Santa Claus Timeline

SANTA CLAUS TIMELINE

1689 

Spanish-German explorer Santa Claus discovers the North Pole, and establishes a small base camp.

1691 

Because of harsh and meager living conditions, Claus' crew abandons him.

1692 

Claus is rescued by the Viking ship Hvorfor. He returns to Europe, bringing some items along with him from the North Pole. He finds he is able to sell them quite easily, making a small profit.

1703 

Claus saves up enough money to buy a small ship and crew, and returns to the North Pole. Upon arriving, he finds his base camp, half-buried but still intact.

1704 

Claus returns to Europe with a shipload of North Pole artifacts, and is successful in selling them. He makes enough profit to increase his crew, and buys building materials to expand his polar base.

1705 

Claus returns again to the North Pole, and builds quarters for him and his crew, and sets up the Polar Exports Company.

1716 

After six shiploads of exports, the European market is flooded with polar artifacts, as well as the phony ones making charlatans rich. Seeing this decline, Claus decides to invest his money by starting a toy company in his native Germany.

1720 

Claus Toys becomes the largest toy company in Germany, but only because of Claus' underhanded business dealings. (It was also rumored that Claus was dealing with enemy countries as well). Competitors urged government officials to begin an investigation.

1721 

Enough evidence is found, and charges are drawn up against the Claus Toys Company. Claus himself refuses to release his records.

1722 

The German Supreme Court finds Claus guilty of tax evasion and of treason. When news of this breaks, Claus' employees all turn against him and his company.

1723 

Claus is exiled to Sicily, and shortly before leaving, he absconds with all of the company's funds.

1724 

A search party is sent to the Mediterranean to recover the funds, however, Claus hears of this ahead of time, and he and his Sicilian wife flee for their lives. (Some say he went into Northern Africa, but it is generally assumed that this was only a ruse to lure the searchers off course. He is believed to have returned to his North Pole base).

1725 

Claus II is born en route to the North Pole.

1725-1734 

The Claus' lay low at the North Pole. Claus teaches his son the arts of toymaking and business dealings.

1735 

Rumor has it that Claus has hired Scandinavian builders to construct a castle for him at the North Pole, making use of almost half of the company funds.

1739 

The castle is finished, and is one of the largest in the world. Claus II reaches his fifteenth birthday, and in the same year, Claus' wife dies, accidentally falling from a balcony in one of the castle's great halls.

1740 

Claus, mourning his wife, becomes increasingly ill.

1745 

Santa Claus II becomes of age, and begins taking care of the castle and of his sick father.

1747 

Using the remaining company funds, Claus II builds a small city around the castle to attract workers and craftsmen.

1748 

Word of the North Pole settlement reaches Europe. The Elves of Eastern Europe, quickly becoming political outcasts and striving for a better life, begin immigrating in waves to the North Pole.

1753 

All the elves have left Eastern Europe and have become firmly established at the North Pole. Claus II begins his father's toy company once again, with an estimated 30,000 elves employed. Claus I dies, at age 89.

1755 

The North Pole officially becomes a nation, and Claus II and his wife take the throne. The toy business continues to flourish, and the elves enjoy prosperity. Claus III is born.

1757 

The great stables are built, and scientists are secretly hired by Claus II to begin an ambitious project--that of breeding and training reindeer to fly.

1773 

The flying reindeer are achieved and become Claus II and III's major form of transportation.

1774 

A mutant reindeer, named Rudolf, is born whose nose emits light. He becomes an outcast of the reindeer society, and is taken in by the Claus government. Claus II celebrates his 50th birthday, inviting several other world leaders for a stay at his castle. To impress them, he displays a lavish show of wealth, all at the elves' expense. He gives the other leaders the impression of a dictatorship under the guise of royalty. The elves sense this, and the seeds of rebellion are planted.

1777 

As conditions become increasingly strict, the elves begin to search for a leader to lead their revolt. Rudolf, still in favor of the Claus government, sees their plight and begins thinking of ways to use it to his advantage.

1784 

On his 60th birthday, Claus II takes a sleigh ride down main street during the Christmas day parade, and is assasinated by a radical faction of elves. Claus III, now 29, takes over immediately and puts martial law into effect for the whole North Pole. Civil war breaks out as Rudolf leads the Elves in rebellion.

1785-1792 

The Seven-year Strike takes place. The elves refuse to make toys, and the Claus Toy Company nearly goes bankrupt, as the North Pole hits an economic low. Claus III, fearing for his life, becomes a prisoner of his own castle. Rudolf rises to the peak of his power, and sets himself as leader of the elven community.

1796 

Rudolf and his army unsuccessfully attempt to invade Norway. Over 10,000 elves are killed.

1800 

Inside the castle, unbeknownst to the elves, Claus IV is born.

1802 

After a string of political blunders, Rudolf senses that he is quickly losing favor with the elves. Frosty the Snowman is built, brought to life, and used as a political scapegoat.

1804 

Frosty the Snowman is melted at a public execution, and the elves are calmed of their unrest, for the moment.

1819-1826 

After a long period of unrest, Rudolf is finally ousted, and Claus III, aged 71, rightfully regains the throne. Prince Claus IV is introduced to the elves publicly for the first time.

1827-1841 

The Renormalization years. Claus III brings the near-bankrupt Claus Toys Company out of dormancy and appoints his son as president. In order to clear their bad name and make up for their out-of-the-way location, they decide to start the hugest advertising campaign ever. Each Christmas, Claus IV will ride all over the world, distributing free toys to children everywhere. The ad campaign becomes a hit, but remains very costly.

1837 

Claus III dies.

1851 

As the annual ad campaign continues, deficits pile up, and the elves are asked to work harder, longer hours and still take a pay cut. They start to complain, but Claus assures them he will do all he can to help them. As a sign of goodwill, Claus IV marries an Elven wife, strengthening the bonds between the Claus family and the Elves.

1856 

Claus V is born. In order to celebrate, Claus IV decides to stay at home, and so he suggests that department stores use costumed employees to represent him. They do, and it works out so well that he decides to do it every year.

1857-1867 

Claus V grows up, spending most of his time visiting with his elf relatives and friends. Claus IV, who spends most of his time building up the company, doesn't seem to mind, in fact, he feels that it's good publicity.

1871 

Working conditions continue to worsen for the elves, and they try to convince Claus V to overthrow his father and give the government back to the elves.

1872 

Claus V usurps his father's throne, sending him to live the remainder of his life under guard in the castle's west wing.

1875 

After reading the works of Karl Marx, Claus V chooses communism as the new form of government for the North Pole. Some elves protest this, but they are successfully quieted. (It is also because of communism that Santa Claus' suit later changes from beige to red.)

1881 

Claus IV dies in captivity, just as the new Government gets underway. His funeral is not a large one.

1887 

In order to keep up with growing populations, Claus Toys becomes industrialized. The elves learn the ways of mass production on the assembly line.

1893 

Another mutant reindeer is born, and is named Rudolf II in honor of the first one, whom the communist government now honors for "giving the government back to the elves."

1900 

Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" is published.

1902 

After he had been presumed dead for years, Frosty the Snowman is claimed to have been sighted on several occasions. All throughout the kingdom, children claim that they all heard him say he'd be back again some day.

1906 

Claus VI is born. The Claus family celebrates, but the elves aren't the least bit excited.

1909-1922 

The toys distributed yearly begin to show signs of propaganda influence. Frosty the Snowman continues to appear occasionally, and Claus V begins to grow uneasy, fearing some sort of hidden sabotage.

1925 

Claus V dies, under mysterious circumstances. He is found buried in the snow in the castle garden, frozen solid. Many think it is the work of Frosty, but no one can prove it.

1926 Claus VI takes over, and immediately tightens up security. He rules with an iron hand, but a fair one. Electric lights are installed in the streets, and the castle and the town gets electricity. The factories are expanded, and the toys continue to be used as propaganda for the world.

1929 

Angered by Claus' commercialization of Christmas, the Grinch attempts to remove the material goods to show the true meaning of Christmas. He fails, and later Claus commissions a cartoon, which warps the story so that the Grinch is made out to be the villian.

1949 

Claus VII is born.

1979 

Claus VI dies of natural causes.

1933-1990 

The North Pole remains stable, with everything running smoothly. Across the Western world, a pattern starts to emerge and become noticed. Children receive Claus' toys each Christmas, but as they grow older, their parents throw them away and then they tell their children that there is no Santa Claus.

1991 

First sightings of Anti-Claus.

1993 

Anti-Claus is observed closely with telescopes, and photographed. His suit is like that of Santa Claus, but with the reds and whites reversed. He carries a 3-ply Hefty bag full of gifts no one wants or needs. And instead of using reindeer and a sleigh, he rides in a bathtub pulled by eight flying cows.

1997 

Anti-Claus is radar tracked and found to live in an underground hideout run by dwarves at the South Pole.

2002 

Communism fails utterly at the North Pole due to the nature of the elves. Claus VII, flying clockwise around the earth making the Christmas rounds, collides with Anti-Claus, who was flying counterclockwise. A huge explosion and blinding flash of light occurs, leading scientists to believe that they annihilated each other.

2007 

The North Pole becomes a democracy, run wholly by the elves. Christmas is no longer commercialized or exploited. Happiness is finally achieved throughout the kingdom.

2011 

It is discovered that Claus VII did not die in the explosion, but merely made it appear so. From there he went to live in the Bahamas. He is later found, dead of a heart attack, in a jacuzzi with two and a half dozen nymphets.

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Norad Tracks Santa 2008 - With Google's Help

Norad Tracks Santa 2008 - With Google's Help

Follow Santa as he delivers presents around the world.

Like last year, the Norad Tracks Santa site will open its web site on December 1st allowing kids everywhere to watch the countdown to Christmas Eve. The web site will feature fun holiday games and activities daily until December 24th. And, like last year, the official application to watch Santa fly around the world on Christmas Eve will be Google Earth.

The NORAD Tracks Santa (NTS) program began on Dec. 24, 1955, after an errant phone call was made to the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The call was from a local youngster who dialed a misprinted telephone number in a local newspaper advertisement. The commander who answered the phone that night gave the youngster the information requested – the whereabouts of Santa Claus. This began the tradition of tracking Santa Claus, a tradition that was carried on by NORAD when it was formed in 1958. This Christmas marks the 50th anniversary of NORAD tracking Santa Claus as he goes around the world delivering presents.

In 2006 Google created a 3D game in Google Earth where you had to find Christmas presents somewhere on the Earth for the two weeks leading up to Christmas. They had Santa's North Pole home and his sleigh rendered in 3D, and then the Santa tracker was linked to the Norad data. Google also used Google Earth to track Santa in 2005. Last year (2007) was the first year Google's mapping applications were the official ones used by Norad for following Santa on the Internet.

True Story of Santa. How Santa Grew Over Time

The True Story of Santa
How Santa Grew Over Time--literally

Santa no longer travels in such punishing and hirsute company as he did in the German-speaking countries.

If the kids you know wonder why, you can say it's because Santa has derived much of his identity from his Irish and British ancestors, who believed that fairies and elves scampered invisibly through the woods, sometimes harming people, and sometimes giving gifts. During the 12 days of Christmas, these creatures were especially active.

Santa traveled to the United States in the 1600s, with Dutch settlers in New York. His name first got newspaper publicity here in 1773. Before there was television, newspapers were the media that created American idols.

Santa got his big break in 1809 when Washington Irving, in his satirical work, A History of New York, wrote about Santa riding a horse through town on the Eve of Saint Nicholas. Irving cut Black Peter out of the picture, though, leaving Santa as a solo act--not unlike Justin Timberlake is today.

Santa made it to the big leagues in 1823, with the publication of A Visit from St. Nicholas, which is better known as The Night Before Christmas. Even though he was a celebrity at this point, and had teamed up with an ensemble act of eight reindeer, Santa wasn't all that we now know him to be. Rather, he was described as an elf (one who would fit in a chimney, no less).

Nearly 40 years later, Santa's empire had expanded substantially. You might say that he had a monopoly, although the federal government has discreetly looked the other way.

In Harper's Weekly, the illustrator Thomas Nast depicted Santa in his huge workshop at the North Pole. What's truly remarkable about this is that the first explorers to reach the North Pole didn't get there until 1909, and rumor has it that they missed the actual spot (which would explain why they didn't get footage of Santa and his elves at work).

As his business grew, Santa attained physical stature as well. He was depicted as a full-sized man by 1931, when his image was used in Coca-Cola advertisements. Eight years later, he formed his partnership with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, as recounted in a poem written by a Montgomery Ward employee--a poem sent home with holiday shoppers back in the days when people who had red noses just lived with them instead of having plastic surgery.

Although it's not clear when Mrs. Claus came into the picture, some of Santa's detractors say it was a public relations stunt designed to divert attention from the fact that Santa lived with a bunch of elves. Nonetheless, the marriage seems to have endured. There is no record of any separation, legal or actual, and no family therapist has written a tell-all about any woes they might have endured.

Early Versions of Santa

Early Versions of Santa

It was Black Peter's job: keeping kids in line. If any modern kids doubt you, explain that you know he actually existed because versions of him showed up in many places in ancient Europe, especially Austria.

The Austrian version of Black Peter, who goes by the name of Klaubauf, is furry, and has fiery eyes, horns, and a long, red tongue.

Another member of the sinister Austrian holiday entourage is known as Krampus, or Grampus. (Make sure the kids don't confuse him with Grandpa.) Also, despite how his name sounds, Krampus's specialty wasn't giving stomachaches. Rather, he administered whippings to bad children, that is unless Saint Nicholas kindly intervened.

Austrian and German legends featured the character Knecht Ruprecht. His job was to make sure kids knew their prayers. If they didn't, it was punishment time.

A note to all children who may whine about not getting Chicken Dance Elmo in their stockings despite their fervent prayers for it: These are not the sort of prayers Knecht Ruprecht had in mind.

The Pennsylvania Dutch version of Santa's nasty sidekick was called Pelznickle, which translates to "furry Nicholas." Anyone who's encountered a tough brush with Daddy's whiskers knows not to cross Pelznickle. With a name like that, he could probably sand a small child's head down to a nub with just a few rubbings.

This isn't to say that the ancient European Christmases were nothing but traumatic. On the positive side, Saint Nicholas used to deliver presents on December 6, sparing kids 19 agonizing days of waiting. Later, though, after the Reformation, Protestants in Germany moved the gift-giving holiday to December 25, when the Christ child's birth was celebrated. His name in German is Christkindl, which morphed to Kriss Kringle, which is another one of Santa's aliases--and also Santa's means of retaining much of the holiday spotlight.

The True Story of Santa Claus

The True Story of Santa

When I was old enough to notice that Santa and my mother had exactly the same handwriting, my parents gave me a book called, Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.

The book was a reprint of an actual letter a girl about my age had written to the editor of The New York Sun in 1897, asking if there really was a Santa Claus. The girl reasoned that if the newspaper had printed it, it had to be true.

Shows how much Virginia knew. That same newspaper had printed a long article 60 years earlier about the winged creatures that lived on the Moon.

At any rate, the editor wrote back and said there was indeed a Santa Claus, and that he would continue to make kids happy for 100,000 years.

Leave it to the media to mislead small children. The true story of Santa Claus is something else entirely, as pieced together from his appearances in legend, newspapers, magazines, and advertisements.

Part of the tale is good and scary, which is actually a plus. Through experience with my nieces and nephews, I've learned that there's nothing like a frightening story to really get a kid's attention (and promote good behavior).

Note: This is not wise to do to your own children, unless you want to spend half the night comforting a shivering, bawling 7-year-old.

If any other people's offspring ask you whether Santa Claus exists, however, this is what you can tell them:

"Of course he does!"

"He flies through the sky on a horse with a sidekick elf named Black Peter, who will whip you senseless if you're bad. I swear, I read it in Encarta."

Once you've hooked them with Black Peter, tell them that, "in fact, Santa flies so fast you won't even see Black Peter coming until you have a sore bottom

by Martha Brockenbrough

True Story of Santa. Fun and Unsettling Santa facts

True Story of Santa. Fun and Unsettling Santa facts

Because of the Earth's rotation, Santa has 31 hours to deliver presents, assuming he travels from east to west. Researchers at the highly regarded, if unscientific, Spy magazine determined in 1990 that:

Santa's sleigh moves at 650 miles per second (3,000 times the speed of sound).
Even if kids get relatively lightweight gifts, like a two-pound box of Legos, the sleigh is very heavy, weighing about 321,300 tons. Santa would need 214,200 conventional reindeer to pull this size sleigh.

Add in Santa and all those reindeer, and the sleigh might weigh as much as 353,000 tons. Traveling at high speed, an object like this has massive air resistance. It's so much, in fact, that it's like what happens when a space ship reenters Earth's atmosphere. If it doesn't have a protective coating on it, it will burst into flames.

Spy concluded that Santa's reindeer would have made thundering sonic booms and then burst into flames almost instantaneously. They also said Santa himself would have been pinned to the back of the sleigh with a centrifugal force 17,500.06 times greater than gravity.

But this obviously hasn't happened. Christmas, and Santa, keep on coming. We can only conclude that they are either immune to the laws of physics or they all have on protective suits, not unlike the Space Shuttle and its astronauts.

The bottom line here is that Santa has managed to overcome a fairly shady past to achieve some magnificent feats.

Despite the fact that he's carrying some extra pounds--something that could easily happen to anyone who has endured centuries of scrutiny by the press and historians--he is able to travel much faster than the speed of sound.

We can really only hope that this generation of children behaves well enough, and appreciates Santa enough, to keep him on the straight and narrow. We've seen what happens when other celebrities fall off the wagon--or the sleigh, as the case may be.

That's something worth mentioning when you pass on this entirely true story to your favorite youngsters. Want to avoid the hurt of holidays past, and the sting of Black Peter's whip? It's up to you, kids. It's up to you.

How Did Christmas Cards Come To Be

How Did Christmas Cards Come To Be?

Henry Cole, an Englishman, was too busy to write personal greetings for Christmas 1843. Cole hired artist John Calcott Horsley to design a ready-to-be-sent card. The hand-colored card Horsley designed was lithographed on stiff, dark cardboard and featured adults and children raising wine glasses in a toast. The first Christmas card also had various religious symbols. Sprigs of holly symbolized chastity, while ivy symbolized places God had walked. Feeding and clothing the poor were also encouraged on the card's cover. Under the picture was written "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you." Printed in an edition of 1,000, Horsley's card was sold in London stores. Only one of those cards exists today. Two reasons for the initial popularity of Christmas cards are given: The custom may have caught on because greetings could be mailed for a penny each in 1843, London. The other reason is attributed to a scandal with Horsley's design. A family, surrounded with religious symbols, holding glasses of wine, offended some. The controversy is thought to have helped promote Cole's idea.

Louis Prang created the first American Christmas cards at his Boston factory in 1874.

American families sent and received an average of 28 Christmas cards each.

According to the Greeting Card Association, an industry trade group based in Washington, D.C., an estimated 2.1 billion paper Christmas cards will crisscross the country (United States) in 2002. Source: Butler Eagle, December 26, 2002.

In the Thomas Nast cartoon that first depicted Santa Claus with a sleigh and reindeer, he was delivering Christmas gifts to soldiers fighting in the U. S. Civil War. The cartoon, entitled "Santa Claus in Camp," appeared in Harper's Weekly on January 3, 1863. Source: WISR 680AM News Sheet

How Santa Climbs Down The Chimney

How Santa Climbs Down The Chimney

By the time the holiday season is in full swing, curious, knowledge-seeking children have lots of questions about Santa Claus and Christmas. How does Santa make it around the world in one night? Do reindeer really fly? Why do people keep giving us fruitcakes?

One of the most difficult questions that parents are faced with has nothing to do with reindeer flight or the physics of Santa Claus's flight path -- it's a practical matter concerning a chimney. After all, according to Christmas folklore, when Santa drops by your house to deliver his presents, he doesn't knock on your door or break any windows in the process. Instead, after landing on your roof, Santa climbs down the chimney, stuffs your stockings, places gifts under the tree and takes a quick milk-and-cookies break before climbing back up the chimney.

But how does Santa get down your chimney in the first place? Can he even fit into a chimney? (He's both jolly and big, thanks to all those Christmas treats.) Does he drop straight down, or does he use special climbing equipment? And what happens if you don't even have a chimney? Does that mean people without chimneys don't get any presents at all?

Although no one may ever know for sure just how Santa operates, we at HowStuffWorks have what we think is the most logical explanation for how the big guy gets down small spaces: science, in the form of miniaturization technology. What does this mean? It's actually as simple as it sounds -- Santa could use this technology to actually shrink the size of his body.

­Michael C. LaBarbera, a professor of organismal biology and anatomy and geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, believes that reducing the distance between molecular bonds could do the trick. There's a lot of empty space between the nucleus of an atom and the electrons surrounding it, so moving everything closer together could potentially decrease the size of an object. The mass of the object stays the same, of course, so that may explain any loud crashes that might come from the fireplace if Santa slipped [source: University of Chicago].

But what about Santa's suit? If he compresses his body to a small enough size to fit through the chimney, wouldn't the suit just crumple into a mess since it isn't a part of him? Santa's suit would need to protect him from any radiation produced by Santa's Antimatter Propulsion Unit in his sleigh, as well as be threaded with carbon nanotubes. This would allow the suit to compress as Santa himself compresses. His belt would also be equipped with a grappling hook, making his descent into your living room a bit smoother.

But what about any burning embers from yule logs in the fireplace? Santa's rubber-soled boots would be flame-retardant and come with removable galoshes so that he wouldn't track any ashes around the house.

If there's no chimney, of course, he could just open your front door and walk right in -- sometimes you have to go low-tech. But a chimney entrance would be preferable since it's the most direct path from the roof to the Christmas tree. Plus, there's the show-off factor -- what else would you expect from a guy who can travel around the world in one night?
Source. How Stuff Works

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How does Santa make it around the world in one night

How does Santa make it around the world in one night

For all of you Santa Claus doubters out there wondering how the big guy can make it across the world in one night, take a good look at "Star Trek." Although the U.S.S. Enterprise is a fictional spaceship from a fictional television show, the idea of traveling at superluminal speeds -- faster than the speed of light -- throughout space is a very real concept.

When Einstein wrote down his famous E = MC2 formula, he was saying that mass is energy in a very concentrated form. If you could take matter and convert it into energy, it would create an incredible amount of energy. Think about it -- the C2 in that equation is the speed of light (300,000 miles per second) times the speed of light. Even if you had a tiny bit of mass -- the letter "M" in the equation -- the letter "E" on the other side of that equation can be really big. So how do you make that "E" big enough to travel around the world in one night -- on a sleigh with nine or more reindeer, for that matter?

Although no one may ever know for sure just how Santa operates, we at HowStuffWorks have what we think are the most logical explanations for how the big guy accomplishes all that he does: science and technology. And we think that Santa could have mastered the power of antimatter, the same concept NASA is hoping to use to build its own version of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Santa and his elves would have to outfit his sleigh with a Stardust Antimatter Propulsion Engine. This device would allow Santa to deliver toys around the world in one night and be back to the North Pole in time for a Christmas Day feast.

How Santa's Sleigh Works

How Santa's Sleigh Works

On Christmas Eve, millions of children around the world will settle uneasily into bed, hardly able to contain themselves. What vision could possibly dance through their heads, turning them into twitchy, restless insomniacs for just one night? Is it the Sugar Plum Fairy from Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" or the sugarplums from Clement Clarke Moore's poem "The Night Before Christmas"? Can sugarplums really do such a thing?

Chances are the children are thinking about toys, Santa Claus and his team of reindeer -- if the children have been nice this year, jolly old St. Nick should be landing his sleigh on their roofs sometime late in the night.

Everyone has their own traditional image of Santa's sleigh, but could there be more to it than just a sled and a team of reindeer? Although no one may ever know for sure just how Santa operates, we at HowStuffWorks have what we think are the most logical explanations for how the big guy accomplishes all that he does: science and technology.

Sure, demystifying Santa's modus operandi puts us at risk of getting nothing but coal in our stockings this year, but it's all for the noble pursuit of yuletide knowledge. After all, have you ever wondered how Santa's sleigh flies? What about the reindeer? And how does Santa fit all of those presents into one bag? In the next section, we'll look at the possible technology behind Santa's sleigh.

Rustic on the outside and state-of-the-art on the inside, Santa's sleigh would have to be a marvel in engineering. These are the main parts of the sleigh that would be needed to get Santa across the world in one night.

The Sleigh's Interior
The front of the sleigh's dashboard would be dominated by Santa's own GPS navigator -- the elves would map out millions of destinations before Christmas Eve, just to make sure Santa doesn't miss anyone. The device would also have a built-in Naughty-or-Nice sensor that keeps Santa updated on children's activities. This is important, as even the most minor of naughty deeds committed within the last few hours of Dec. 24 can determine whether or not a child receives a shiny lump of coal.

A speedometer on the far left of the dashboard would allow Santa to monitor his flying speeds. On the far right would be a radio communicator -- Mrs. Claus sends broadcasts, and the elves update Santa with weather reports and toy inventory.

For in-flight entertainment, we'd like to the think that the elves would have installed an iPod dock -- perhaps even a red-and-green iPod, which would come with enough memory to play Christmas songs for the entire year through. There would also be a hot cocoa dispenser in the middle of the console, and fuel for the reindeer (in the form of carrots) in a compartment located on the left side of the sleigh.

Transdimensional Present Compartment (The Bag)
Ever wonder how Santa fits all of those presents into one bag? Think of a transdimensional present compartment in the form of a traditional gift sack, which would act as a portal between the sleigh and the North Pole. However, we'd also like to think that Santa may have harnessed the power of nanotechnology and found a way to miniaturize millions of presents into one large bag. But this information remains unconfirmed.

The Stardust Antimatter Propulsion Unit
What is antimatter? Is it some kind of magical substance Santa uses to power his sleigh?

Antimatter is the opposite of regular matter -- the mirror image of normal particles that make up everything we can see or touch. The big draw to antimatter is the amount of energy it helps create. When antimatter and matter come into contact, they annihilate each other -- breaking apart into tons of smaller particles -- and 100 percent of their masses convert into energy.

Although antimatter propulsion rockets are mainly used in science-fiction shows to allow spaceships to travel at warp speed, the possibility of designing one is very real -- NASA is currently developing one that would get us to Mars within a matter of weeks. [source: NASA]

Santa's would have to be way ahead of the game, however, and we'd like to imagine that he has his own custom Stardust Antimatter Rocket. It would be small enough to install in the back of his sleigh and fast enough to deliver every present to all good children across the globe. Of course, if the rocket ever malfunctions, the reindeer would be there to back Santa up.

Source: How Stuff Work

Turn Yourself Into Santa Claus with SantaSnaps

Turn Yourself Into Santa Claus with SantaSnaps

SantaSnaps is pretty much like Photobooth, except it doesn’t have near as many features as Photobooth, and it has a holiday twist.

You can take a photo of yourself, someone you love, or someone you hate for that matter, and deck their halls with enough Christmas cheer to make you feel wonderful.

SantaSnaps is a Cocoa Duel project by John Casasanta (Which I believe means “Santa House” in Spanish) and is a fun family time waster.

Just think - when Uncle Carl has one glass of Egg Nog too many, and passes out in your Dad’s recliner, you can take a couple of snapshots, then turn him into an Unconscious Alcoholic Elf.

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Santa's Magic Snow Sent World Wide

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Santa's Magic Snow comprises:

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Santa Fun Facts

Santa Fun Facts

There are currently 78 people named S. Claus living in the U.S. -- and one Kriss Kringle. (You gotta wonder about that one kid's parents)

December is the most popular month for nose jobs.

Weight of Santa's sleigh loaded with one Beanie Baby for every kid on earth: 333,333 tons.

Number of reindeer required to pull a 333,333-ton s sleigh: 214,206 -- plus Rudolph.

Average wage of a mall Santa: $11 an hour. With real beard: $20.

To deliver his gifts in one night, Santa would have to make 822.6 visits per second, sleighing at 3,000 times the speed of sound.

At that speed, Santa and his reindeer would burst into flame instantaneously.

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Tracking The Flight Of Santa. How Tracking Santa Works

Tracking The Flight Of Santa. How Tracking Santa Works

For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa. The tradition began after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. store advertisement for children to call Santa on a special "hotline" included an inadvertently misprinted telephone number. Instead of Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief's operations "hotline." The Director of Operations, Colonel Harry Shoup, received the first "Santa" call on Christmas Eve 1955. Realizing what had happened, Colonel Shoup had his staff check radar data to see if there was any indication of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Indeed there were signs of Santa and children who called were given an update on Santa's position. Thus, the tradition was born. In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States created a bi-national air defense command for the North American continent called the North American Air Defense Command, known as NORAD. Canada and the U.S. believed they could better defend North America together as a team instead of separately. See the video on tracking Santa: See The Video On Tracking Santa Video

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NORAD carried out its first Santa tracking in 1958 after inheriting the tradition from CONAD. Since that time, Canadian and American men and women who work at NORAD have responded to phone calls from children personally. Additionally, media from all over the world call NORAD on Christmas Eve for updates on Santa's location. Last year this Website was visited by millions of people who wanted to know Santa's whereabouts. This year, the information is provided in six languages.

NORAD relies on many volunteers to help make Santa tracking possible. Hundreds of volunteers spend part of their Christmas Eve at the Santa Tracking Operations Center answering phones and emails to provide Santa updates to thousands of inquiring children worldwide.

NORAD uses four high-tech systems to track Santa - radar, satellites, Santa Cams and jet fighter aircraft.

Detecting Santa all starts with the NORAD radar system called the North Warning System. This powerful radar system has 47 installations strung across the northern border of North America. NORAD makes a point of checking the radar closely for indications of Santa Claus leaving the North Pole on Christmas Eve.

The moment our radar tells us that Santa has lifted off, we use our second mode of detection, the same satellites that we use in providing warning of possible missile launches aimed at North America. These satellites are located in a geo-synchronous orbit (that's a cool phrase meaning that the satellite is always fixed over the same spot on the Earth) at 22,300 miles above the Earth. The satellites have infrared sensors, meaning they can detect heat. When a rocket or missile is launched, a tremendous amount of heat is produced - enough for the satellites to detect. Rudolph's nose gives off an infrared signature similar to a missile launch. The satellites can detect Rudolph's bright red nose with practically no problem. With so many years of experience, NORAD has become good at tracking aircraft entering North America, detecting worldwide missile launches and tracking the progress of Santa, thanks to Rudolph.

The third detection system we use is the Santa Cam. We began using it in 1998 - the year we put our Santa Tracking program on the Internet. NORAD Santa Cams are ultra-cool high-tech high-speed digital cameras that are pre-positioned at many places around the world. NORAD only uses these cameras once a year - Christmas Eve. The cameras capture images of Santa and the Reindeer as they make their journey around the world. We immediately download the images on to our web site for people around the world to see. Santa Cams produce both video and still images.

The fourth detection system we use is the NORAD jet fighter. Canadian NORAD fighter pilots, flying the CF-18, take off out of Newfoundland to intercept and welcome Santa to North America. Then at numerous locations in Canada other CF-18 fighter pilots escort Santa. While in the United States, American NORAD fighter pilots in either the F-15 or F-16 get the thrill of flying with Santa and the famous Reindeer Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph. About a dozen NORAD fighters in Canada and the United States are equipped with Santa Cams.

About NORAD

NORAD is the bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization responsible for the aerospace defense of the United States and Canada. NORAD was created by a 1958 agreement between Canada and the United States. The agreement has been renewed nine times - most recently this year. NORAD provides warning of missile and air attack against both of its member nations, safeguards the air sovereignty of North America, and provides air defense forces for defense against an air attack.

NORAD's mission has evolved over the years to meet the aerospace defense needs of Canada and the United States. The most recent "evolution" in NORAD's mission came as a result of September 11, 2001. Because of that day, NORAD now monitors the airspace within Canada and the United States, too. In addition, the command also conducts maritime warning. There are men and women in NORAD constantly watching the skies and waterways to keep the United States and Canada safe.

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Tracking Santa's Flight With NORAD

Tracking Santa's Flight With NORAD

Why does NORAD track Santa?

Robertson: Back in 1955 a local department store put an ad in the paper for a Santa hotline for the kids to phone in and talk to Santa Claus. The only problem was they printed the wrong phone number — it turned out to be the operations hotline for Continental Air Defense [NORAD's predecessor]. Apparently the personnel had phone calls all Christmas Eve from kids who wanted to speak to Santa. They quickly realized that obviously they're not going to say they're Santa, but they could check their radar scopes to see if they could see him heading down south from the pole — and they saw him. Since that time it's been an annual tradition. See The Video On Tracking Santa Video

How do you do it?

NORAD has a lot of sophisticated equipment to carry out its day-to-day role of aerospace warning and aerospace control for North America. We maintain a satellite system that can actually detect heat sources associated with a missile launch. A number of years ago we realized we could actually pick up the heat from the nose of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and that allows us to actually track Santa Claus's progress around the world. Additionally we have radar systems and satellites around the world, so all of these systems, as well as our NORAD fighters in Canada and the U.S., assist us with tracking Santa Claus.

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How does Santa travel so quickly?

The one thing we have learned is that Santa has extremely sophisticated equipment, he's been doing this for centuries, clearly he can fly way faster than any jet we have. In fact he's been clocked up to 600 times the speed of sound. We're not sure how he does it. He has — I mean for instance, how do you fly around the world in an old wooden sleigh with 9 reindeer? It doesn't make a lot of sense, but clearly he has some Christmas magic that we don't understand and I think it's gonna take many years before we crack the Santa code.

How difficult is it for NORAD to track something going that fast?

The primary way we can do that is through the satellite system, the Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites. The way we track is we get continuous signals in geographic areas — [normally] we can't maintain a continual track but we do pick up the nose. Rudolph's nose. We've all heard the song about Rudolph's nose shining so bright, but what people don't realize is that it also emits a significant infra-red heat source and that heat source is enough for our satellites to maintain a sufficient lock during his 24-hour journey.

Do the reindeer have some sort of advanced propulsion system?

No, they seem to be everyday reindeer. The images we've picked up over the years show nine reindeer. The one in the front does have a red nose and seems to be smaller. We haven't figured out how reindeer can fly so fast and like I said, Santa Claus uses some technology that's very, very advanced and sophisticated, technology that we do not have. But the bottom line is it gets the job done on Christmas Eve.

Major Robertson (right) in the control center of NORAD.

Air speed is one thing, but has NORAD's tracking and imaging of Santa revealed anything about how he manages to deliver all those toys?

We've checked into this. At face value is doesn't seem possible, so we had some of our analysts take a look at this issue and they concluded that somehow Santa operates in a different time-space continuum. Clearly he cannot deliver millions of toys around the world in just 24 hours. He somehow functions in a different time-space continuum, perhaps for him it takes several months, several weeks but for us it only takes 24 hours. That's the only thing that makes any sense to us.

How do you know how many households Santa visits?

Again, we did some calculations and looked into that. Approximately 750 millions households is the estimate we had. Obviously it's difficult to come up with conclusive figures but based on geography and the number of households that believe in Santa Claus — because I think that's a key thing, I think you have to believe in Santa Claus for him to visit your house — we estimate 750 million households.

Could it be possible that Santa is not just one individual, but a succession of them, or multiple Santa clones?

From our research into Santa, we've concluded that there is one Santa Claus. This one person manages to do all these things in one Christmas Eve, and he is aided by nine reindeer for propulsion, clearly. We're not sure how he makes all these toys — obviously Toyland is a fairly well-known phenomenon — but the point is, on Christmas Eve he is solely responsible for delivering toys all over the planet. And he manages to do it every year and has done it for centuries.

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You would think Santa could employ stealth technology if he wanted to. Is Santa cooperating with NORAD?

What we do see every year is, usually we fly Canadian NORAD fighters up north to make a visual identification of Santa because Santa tends not to file flight plans with the FAA and as a result we're required to go and make an identification. When we do that and he travels so fast, he tends to slow down, waves to the pilots and then carries on his journey. So I'd say from that point of view he's happy that NORAD can see him. Um, we have some secrets too, on how we track Santa. Bottom line is he's very quick — that probably explains why kids don't see him on Christmas Eve. If you see him you're very lucky because he's very fast.

Does Santa need clearance to fly over certain protected airspace?

Most people would require clearance to enter specific areas but Santa Claus does his own thing. Bottom line is he's been around a long time, way before we existed. He's been doing this for centuries, he can pretty much go wherever he wants in the world. The technology he employs, the speed he travels, there's no limit to where Santa can go. So really from that point of view there is no history of him applying for applications for flying in specific areas. Santa will go where he wants to go. Wherever there's a kid that believes in him, Santa will go.

Does Santa use any protective clothing or gear to survive the elements?

We've looked into that. I mean if you travel at any kind of speed at that altitude, in cold winter weather, through snowstorms, you'd think you wouldn't be able to survive. A normal person wouldn't be able to survive those conditions, but all the images we have of Santa show him quite clearly in an open sleigh. The only thing he's wearing, the only protective clothing, is a big red suit with fur and so on, a big pair of boots and gloves. But other than that, he's driving along in the snow. He must have some kind of system that protects him from the elements, but we can't see any kind of technology that gives us a clue what it is.

Another key question is how Santa gets down the chimney. Any intelligence on that?

The chimney question is a very controversial issue — we've tried to address that on our web site. There's some technology being used that requires people to think outside the box, there's something we have no easy explanation for. But the bottom line is, the guy gets down the chimney. How he does it, I don't know. One thing we have learned is he does not need a chimney to get into a person's house to deliver toys. He can go through doors and windows like anyone else, but the bottom line is he gets in there, he delivers the toys and he's outta there. He's very efficient, very effective, and we can basically count on Santa doing the job.

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Well I think skeptics that don't believe in Santa Claus are missing out on a fantastic Christmas tradition. I think historically there's proof beyond doubt that there was an individual by name of St. Nicholas who started the tradition of delivering toys down chimneys and so on. What we believe based on our research is that St. Nicholas is probably Santa Claus, he was the initial Santa as it were. Somewhere along the line St. Nicholas (or Father Christmas or Santa — whatever you want to call him) seemed to find a way to deliver toys globally and has lived for 1500-years-plus. We can't explain that — I think there's some magic. There're a lot of things in this world that people don't understand but it doesn't mean to say that things don't exist. We see Santa every Christmas Eve and I think most children at home would agree that Santa does exist, for sure.

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History of Christmas. Christmas Traditions

History of Christmas. Christmas Traditions

The history of a Christmas festival dates back over 4000 years. Ancient Midwinter festivities celebrated the return of the Sun from cold and darkness. Midwinter was a turning point between the Old Year and the New Year. Fire was a symbol of hope and boughs of greenery symbolized the eternal cycle of creation.

The term "Xmas" instead of "Christmas" is Greek in origin. The word for "Christ" in Greek is "Xristos." during the Sixteenth Century, Europeans began using the first initial of Christ's name...the "X" of "Xristos"...in place of the word "Christ" as a shorthand version of the word "Christmas." Although early Christians understood that the "X" was simply another form for the name of Jesus Christ, later Christians, who had no knowledge of the Greek language, mistook "Xmas" as a sign of disrespect. Eventually, however, "Xmas" came to be both an accepted and suitable alternative to the word "Christmas."

Many of today's Christmas traditions were celebrated centuries before the Christ Child was born. The Twelve Days of Christmas, blazing fires, the yule log, the giving of gifts, carnivals or parades complete with floats, carolers who sing while going from house to house, holiday feasts and church processions are all rooted in the customs observed by early Mesopotamians.

Many of these traditions began with the Mesopotamian celebration of the New Year. The Mesopotamians worshipped many gods, the chief of whom was Marduk. Each year as winter arrived, it was believed that Marduk would battle the Monsters of Chaos. In order to assist Marduk during his struggle, the Mesopotamians held a festival for the New Year. They called this celebration Zagmuk and the festivities lasted for twelve days.

The King of Mesopotamia would return to the Temple of Marduk and swear his faithfulness to the god. The tradition called for the King to die at the end of the year and then return with Marduk to battle at his side. To spare their King, the Mesopotamians utilized a "mock" king. A criminal was chosen and dressed in royal clothes. He was given all due respect and the privileges of a true king but, at the end of the celebrations, the "mock" king was stripped of the royal garments and then put to death, thus sparing the life of the real monarch.

The ancient Persians and Babylonians celebrated a similar festival which they called the Sacaea. Part of that celebration included the exchanging of places within the community...slaves would become masters and the original masters were obliged to obey the former slaves' commands.

In Scandinavia during the winter months, the Sun would disappear for great lengths of time. After thirty-five of such dark days, scouts would be dispatched to the mountain tops to await the return of this life-giving heavenly body. When the first light was espied, the scouts would hurry back to their villages bearing the good news. In celebration, a great festival would be held, called the Yuletide, and a special feast would be served around a fire burning with the Yule log. Huge bonfires would also be lit to celebrate the welcome return of the Sun. In some areas, people would tie apples to the branches of trees as a reminder that Spring and Summer would eventually return.

The ancient Greeks held ceremonies similar to those of the Zagmuk and Sacaea festivals. The purpose of this feast was to assist their god Kronos, who would battle against the god Zeus and his army of Titans.

Members of the pagan order have always celebrated the Winter Solstice...the season of the year when days are shortest and nights longest. It was generally believed to be a time of drunkenness, revelry and debauchery. The pagan Romans called this celebration Saturnalia, in honor of their god Saturn. The festivities began in the middle of December and continued until January 1st. On December 25th, "The Birth of the Unconquerable Sun" was celebrated, as the days gradually lengthened and the Sun began to regain its dominance. It is a general pagan belief that the Sun dies during the Winter Solstice and then rises from the dead. With cries of "Jo Saturnalia!", the Roman celebration would include masquerades in the streets, mangificent festive banquets, the visiting of friends and the exchange of good-luck gifts known as Strenae...or "lucky fruits." Roman halls would be decked with garlands of laurel and green trees, adorned with lighted candles. Again, as with Sacaea, the masters and slaves would exchange places.

Saturnalia was considered a fun and festive time for the Romans, but Christians believed it an abomination to honor such a pagan god. The early converts wanted to maintain the birthday of their Christ Child as a solemn and religious holiday...not one of cheer and merriment, as was the pagan celebration of Saturnalia.

As Christianity spread, however, the Church became alarmed by the continuing practice among its flock to indulge in pagan customs and celebrate the festival of Saturnalia. At first, the holy men prohibited this type of revelry, but it was to no avail. Eventually, a decision was made to tame such celebrations and make them into a festive occasion better suited to honor the Christian Son of God.

According to some legends, the Christian celebration of Christmas was invented to compete against the pagan festivals held in December. The 25th was sacred not only to the Romans, but also to the Persians whose religion of Mithraism was one of Christianity's main rivals at that period in time. The Church was, however, finally successful in removing the merriment, lights and gifts from the Saturanilia festival and transferring them to the celebration of a Christian Christmas.

Christmas means "Christ's Mass" and is the celebration of Jesus Christ's birth and baptism. Although December 25th is generally accepted as being the time when the Christ Child was born, the exact date has never been chronicled with any degree of accuracy. There is neither scriptural nor secular evidence to establish the exact moment. One thing is relatively certain, however, the event did not take place in December. Since the child was born when shepherds were "abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flocks by night" (Luke 2:8), it is unlikely that shepherds in Israel would have been sleeping outside with their flocks during the month of December. In Winter, the herders would have led their sheep outside only during the daylight hours...the nights would have been far too cold. It is known that during the very early Christian centuries, the birth of the Christ Child was not celebrated in any manner. However, tradition dictates that the occasion has been commemorated since 98 A.D. In 137 A.D., the Bishop of Rome ordered that the birthday of Jesus Christ be observed as a solemn feast. In 350 A.D., Julius I (another Bishop of Rome) selected December 25th as the observance of Christmas. This date was made official in 375 A.D., when it was formally announced that the birth of Jesus would be honored on this day...the announcement also allowed some of the older festivies (such as feasting, dancing and the exchange of gifts) to be incorporated into the observance of Christmas. The use of greenery to decorate homes continued to be prohibited as pagan idolatory but, over the centuries, this too became an accepted custom of the festivies.

In Colonial America there were no Christmas celebrations. As recently as 100 years or so ago, such observances were declared illegal in many parts of the United States, including most of New England, being defined as pagan and a reproach to the Lord. (Today, it is against the law in some areas to display any Christmas symbols that are not pagan in nature...the erecting of nativity scenes, for example, are banned in some regions of America. Ironically, New England being one such area).

In Puritan Massachusetts, anyone caught observing the holiday was obliged to pay a fine. Connecticut also enacted a law forbidding the celebration of Christmas...and the baking of mincemeat pies. A few of the earliest settlers, however, did celebrate Christmas, but it was far from a common holiday during the Colonial era.

Prior to the American Civil War, the North and South were divided on the issue of Christmas as much as they were on the question of slavery. Many Northerners considered it sinful to celebrate Christmas since Thanksgiving was a much more appropriate holiday. In the South, however, Christmas played an important role in the social season. Perhaps not surprisingly, the first three American States to declare Christmas a legal holiday were located in the South: Alabama in 1836; and Louisiana and Arkansas, both in 1838.

In the years following the Civil War, Christmas traditions began to filter across the country. Children's books played a vital role in spreading the customs of Christmas celebrations, particularly the tradition of trimmed trees and gifts delivered by Santa Claus. Sunday School Classes encouraged participation in such celebrations. The emergence of women's magazines also played an important part in promoting the festival of Christmas, by suggesting various ways to decorate for the holidays, as well as supplying instructions on how to make such decorations.

The colors most often associated with Christmas decorating are green, red, white, blue, silver and gold. These colors have been used for centuries and, as with most traditions, the reason may be traced to religious beliefs. In this instance, green represents everlasting life, red represents the bloodline of Jesus Christ, blue represents the sky from which the angels appeared, white represents the purity of the Virgin Birth, and silver and gold represent the richness of God's Blessings.

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Santa Claus Questions. All About Santa Claus

Santa Claus Questions. All About Santa Claus

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1. What if there is no chimney?

If a house does not have a chimney, then Santa uses some of his magic dust to make a chimney appear. Then the chimney disappears as soon as Santa leaves.

2. What if we move?

Santa knows how to find all children on Christmas Eve.

3. What if there is no snow?

A lot of places do not have snow at Christmas time; it doesn't keep Santa from coming.

4. How will Santa find me if we are visiting and not at our home on Christmas Eve?

Santa knows how to find all children on Christmas Eve.

5. How do the reindeer fly?

They eat special corn that makes them fly.

6. How does Santa understand all the different languages of the world?

Some call it magic, others just think Santa is very, very smart.

7. What's Santa's favorite food?

Santa's most favorite is cookies, but he'll eat just about anything that you like and that you leave for him on Christmas Eve.

8. Is there any food Santa doesn't eat?

Santa won't eat venison (reindeer) burgers.

9. How much does Santa weigh?

A little more than he should, but he stays healthy with all his exercise.

10. What are the elves' jobs?

They make toys, care for the reindeer, wrap presents, help in the kitchen, clean--they all work together to make the Northpole a clean and comfortable place to live.

11. What is Santa's favorite Christmas Eve snack?

He does love cookies, but if you leave something for him that YOU like, he will like it just because you do.

12. How does Santa visit the whole world in one night?

The time zones help, but so do the reindeer and Santa's special magic.

13. How does Santa get all the toys into the sleigh at one time?

Actually, his red toy sack is magical in that it is bottomless and continues to stay full until Santa has made all his deliveries to all the children around the world.

14. How does Santa get up and down my chimney?

He holds the left side of his nose and shrinks to the size of the chimney--then, holds right side of his nose to expand back to his rather large size.

15. What if there is a fire burning in the fireplace?

He'll put the fire out so he can come down safely and will relight it when leaving your house.

16. Does Santa have any children?

Yes, Santa considers all the children in the world part of his family.

17. Will Santa always bring what I ask for?

Sometimes Santa thinks that what you ask for may not be the best gift for you, so he may give you something you will enjoy better.

18. Where does Santa get his red suit?

Mrs. Claus sews it for him.

19. Does bad weather make it hard for Santa to drive his sleigh?

Santa uses his North Pole Frosty-Weather-Reader-Meter, so he is always prepared, even for the worst of storms.

20. Does Santa have any hobbies?

His most favorite hobby is playing games of any sort--plus he likes trying out all the new toys.

21. Why is Santa's suit red?

So he won't get lost in the snow.

22. Is there really a Santa Claus?

Santa Claus is real to the people who believe he is real.

23. How did the reindeer get their names?

Santa named them, with help from the elves

24. Why does Santa live at the Northpole?

It is isolated, so he won't be disturbed while making his toys.

25. Is Santa ever sad?

He gets sad when good boys and girls behave badly.

26. Which is Santa's favorite elf?

Santa loves all the elves equally; they're like his children!

27. How many elves are there?

There are an unlimited number of elves because it takes a lot of help to keep the northpole maintained and the presents made every year.

28. What is Santa's favorite kind of music?

He is very partial to Christmas music.

29. What kind of treats do the reindeer like?

They like to eat carrots and sugar cubes.

30. Does Santa really read the letters he gets?

Yes, each and every one.

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