Sometimes, that means changing the look of Santa Claus figurines to better reflect European instead of American tastes. Magnus Marsden, a professor at the University of Sussex who led a five-year ...

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The name “Santa Claus” originates from the Dutch “Sinterklaas,” a variation of St. Nicholas. The modern American image of Santa began ... However, in some regions, other figures are also part of the ...

Santa Claus has no need to worry about recent mystery ... General Gregory Guillot’s reassurances came as the joint US-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) reported that ...

Santa Claus is en route to Monrovia, Liberia, where he is set to deliver sackfuls of presents to the West African country’s 5.5million population. Liberia was founded in 1822 as an outpost for freed ...

appear mixed the morning of Christmas Eve — a shortened trading day with markets closing at 1 p.m. — as Wall Street investors hold out hope for a true Santa Claus rally in the final trading ...

The history of his gift giving and legacy as a protector of the poor laid the foundation for Santa Claus ... African-inspired attire and sporting black gloves over raised-fist hands, and perfectly ...

Some of these scary Germanic figures again were ... them from the North American Santa," he said. Such efforts seem unlikely to stop a growing interest in Santa Claus, but their organizers may ...

Dr. Margaret Hudson-Collins has been collecting African American Santa Clauses for decades ... “It was the first black Santa Claus I’d ever seen as a figurine or gift.” The Tallahassee, Fla., native ...

But growing up in the South during the Civil Rights era, she never saw an African American Santa or decorations, she told the Free Press. Later, she realized she had come to believe Santa Claus ...