Christmas & Santa Clause

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Santa is a mythical, historical who in many cultures is said to bring gifts to children who behave good. During the christianization of germany this figure had elements of the god odin and was given the name of a christian bishop Saint Nicholas.
 
The image of the white-bearded man was adopted in the united states and canada in the 19th century after the poem from 1823 "A Visit From St. Nicholas" and of caricaturist and political cartoonist Thomas Nast. Television made it possible to distribute.

According to a tradition which can be traced to the 1820s, Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, with elves and flying reindeers. Since the 20th century, in an idea popularized by the 1934 song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town".

Pre-modern representations of the gift-giver from church history and folklore, notably St Nicholas and Sinterklaas, merged with the British character Father Christmas to create the character known to Britons and Americans as Santa Claus!

The North American traditions associated with Santa Claus are derived from a number of Christmas traditions from various countries. Some rituals (such as visiting a department store Santa) occur in the weeks and days before Christmas while others, such as preparing snacks for Santa, are specific to Christmas Eve. Some rituals, such as setting out stockings to be filled with gifts.


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The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree

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This Past week on November 28th 2012 The Rockefeller Christmas lighting tradition took place and is been taking place since 1933. Many of the trees decorations were given by donors.

The late David Murbach, Manager of the Gardens Division of Rockefeller Center, searchs for a tree on a helicopter in the areas of Connecticut, Vermont, Ohio, upstate New York, New Jersey, and even Ottawa, Canada. When a tree is chosen, a crane supports it while it is cut, and moves it to a custom telescoping trailer that can transport trees up to 125 feet (38 m) tall, but the width of New York City streets passing through Rockefeller Center limits the height of the trees to 110 feet (34 m).
When they locate the tree on the Rockefeller Center, then they attach four guy-wires at its midpoint, and by a steel spike at its base. The star that has topped the tree since 2004 is 9.5 feet (2.9 m) in diameter and weighs 550 pounds (250 kg). This "Swarovski Star" was created by German artist Michael Hammers, who in 2009 additionally designed his own star lighting production.


The unofficial history of the tradition started on the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers from there decorated a smaller 20 feet (6.1 m) tree with "strings of cranberries garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans" on December 24, 1931.
There was no Christmas tree in 1932. The decorated Christmas tree remains lit at Rockefeller Center through January 6. Then it is removed and gets recycled for many other uses. In 2007, they changed the lights to conserve energy.The tall est Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center was a 100 feet (30 m) spruce erected on November 11, 1999.


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