what is santa clause's name in england?
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Different names for Santa Claus...  \n\nSanta Names\n\nAustria - Weihnachtsmann, Nikolaus\n\nBelgium and the Netherlands - Black Pete, Christkind, Noel and Saint Nicholas\n\nBrazil - Papai Noel\n\nChina - Che Dun Lao Ren\n\nDenmark - Julemanden\n\nEngland - Father Christmas\n\nEstonian - Jouluvana\n\nFinland - Joulupukki, Old Man Christmas\n\nFrance - Pere Noel or le Petit\n\nGermany - Weihnachtsmann, Nikolaus\n\nHolland - Sinterklaas\n\nIceland - Jolasveinn\n\nItaly - Babbo Natale\n\nJapan - Santa Kurousu\n\nLithuania - Kaledu Senu\n\nMexico - San Nicolás, Santa\n\nNorway - Julenissen\n\nPoland - Star Man or Wise Men\n\nRussia - Grandfather Frost (Ded Moroz), Dedushka Moroz\n\nSerbo-Croation - Bozic Bata. Sveti Nickola\n\nSpain - Three Kings\n\nSweden - Jultomten \n\nSwitzerland - Saint Nicholas, Chriskind
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st. nicholas was a good guy that gave out presents arround chirtmass time, thing that money other peolple strated doing untill it become what is now. then toy factories started making money out of people who carry out this tradition and one day they decided tocreate this fat guy for a slogan. so santa is just like sonic in a lot of ways just a fictional charater.
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To answer quickly how it became Santa:\n\nIn the 1600's, the Dutch presented Sinterklaas (meaning St. Nicholas) to the colonies in America. In their excitement, many English-speaking children uttered the name so quickly that Sinterklaas sounded like Santy Claus. After years of mispronunciation, the name evolved into Santa Claus.\n\nTo read the whole story:\n\nhttp://www.northpolesantaclaus.com/santahistory.htm
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Same as America and England - Santa Claus.
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Santa Clause has a beard and he's super old.\nAlso, "Old man Time" has a really long beard"\n\nOOOUUU,  Sean Conery...now he's geriatric and he's got that facial stuff.
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Ok, here's a secret. Santa is not real, he doesn't really live in the North pole.  Sorry.
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Well , it got an answer. In the middle ages there was a catholic bishop whose name was Nicholas. This good man had the habit of giving gifts to poor kids and families. when he died , supposedly he was canonized , therefore called ST.Nicholas. that is where the legend of Santa Claus came from.
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The image of Santa Clause that CocaCola used was taken from "The Night Before Christmas". CocaCola mainstreamed the image of a chubby Santa Clause.  They are credited to mainstreaming the image because their advertisement was so wide spread that it was a well known image that people all over the world could share. Many cultures have different images of Santa. Santa wasn't always depicted as a chubby guy.
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i think Santa clause is the biggest load of lies but if the children love him he should stick around as long as possible you cant beat the looks on their faces when they see what"Santa" left them
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Used to work for a charity that regularly sent kids to Lapland.  \n\nHaving regularly had to deal with the elves in his press office, I can assure any children reading this that Santa is very definitely real.
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santa claus. best answer.
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Santa clause is our parents to tell you the truth
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Wow..someone is really missing the whole point of christmas. Thats really sad Cynthia K if you dont know that the whole idea of santa claus was based on a man who really existed. Christmas is about the birth of jesus, and is about others being kind and warm to each other and showing how much they love each other. It was based on Saint Nicholas (dutch), who gave presents to poor children. The custom of giving gifts on a special day in winter was around before christianity came to be.  The first Dutch settlers who came to America had a figure of Saint Nicholas on the front of their ship. After christianity was well established, Saint Nicholas became a customary symbol among christians for christmas. The Dutch celebrated the feast day on December 6th and said Saint Nicholas visited their homes the night before leaving gifts. In time, English settlers adopted the legends and festivities associated with Saint Nicholas. English-speaking children spoke the Dutch name for the saint, Sinterklaas, quickly and excitedly so that it sounded like Santy Claus or Santa Claus.
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St. Nicholas was supposedly an Italian saint. However, the origins of Santa Claus lies in the 1300s, i believe, when a turkish man started giving out presents of gold.
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Santa Clause is a myth perpetuated by our Capitalistic culture as a way of making parents feel bad about being unable to buy their kids the "hip" new toy...as such, I would guess his birthday to be July 4.
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.......Santa i'd imagine.
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Saint Nicholas and the Origin of Santa Claus print version \n\n\n\nBishop St. Nicholas, early American St. Nick, & American Santa, from Santa Claus Comes to America, by Caroline Singer & Cyrus Baldridge, Alfred Knopf, 1942  \n\nHow did the kindly Christian saint, good Bishop Nicholas, become a roly-poly red-suited American symbol for merry holiday festivity and commercial activity?\n\nThe first Europeans to arrive in the New World brought St. Nicholas. Vikings dedicated their cathedral to him in Greenland. On his first voyage, Columbus named a Haitian port for St. Nicholas on December 6, 1492. In Florida, Spaniards named an early settlement St. Nicholas Ferry, now known as Jacksonville. However, St. Nicholas had a difficult time during the 16th century Protestant Reformation which took a dim view of saints. Even though both reformers and counter-reformers tried to stamp out St. Nicholas-related customs, they had very little long-term success; only in England were the religious folk traditions of Christmas permanently altered. (It is ironic that fervent Puritan Christians began what turned into a trend to a more secular Christmas observance.) Because the common people so loved St. Nicholas, he survived on the European continent as people continued to place nuts, apples, and sweets in shoes left beside beds, on windowsills, or before the hearth.\n\n\n"New Year's Hymn to St. Nicholas," colonial Dutch life, Albany, NY. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1881\nSt. Nicholas Center Collection  \nColonists came to America after the Reformation in the 1500s. They were primarily Puritans and other Protestant reformers who did not bring Nicholas traditions to the New World. What about the Dutch? Although it is nearly universally reported that the Dutch did bring St. Nicholas to New Amsterdam, scholars find limited evidence of such traditions in Dutch New Netherland. Colonial Germans in Pennsylvania held the feast of St. Nicholas, and several accounts do have St. Nicholas visiting New York Dutch on New Years' Eve. Patriots formed the Sons of St. Nicholas in 1773, not to honor Bishop Nicholas, but rather as a non-British symbol to counter the English St. George societies. This St. Nicholas society was similar to the Sons of St. Tammany in Philadelphia. Not exactly St. Nicholas, the children's gift-giver.\n\n\nDetail from First Celebration of the Festival of St. Nicholas by The New-York Historical Society, Broadside by Alexander Anderson, December 6, 1810, commissioned by John Pintard, SY 1864-21, negative number 28883 Used by permission \nAfter the American Revolution, New Yorkers remembered with pride the colony's nearly-forgotten Dutch roots. John Pintard, influential patriot and antiquarian, who founded the New York Historical Society in 1804, promoted St. Nicholas as patron saint of both society and city. In January 1809, Washington Irving joined the society and on St. Nicholas Day that year he published the satirical fiction, Knickerbocker's History of New York, which made numerous references to a jolly St. Nicholas character. This was not a saintly bishop, rather an elfin Dutch burgher with a clay pipe. These delightful flights of imagination are the origin of the New Amsterdam St. Nicholas legends: that the first Dutch emigrant ship had a figurehead of St. Nicholas; that St. Nicholas Day was observed in the colony; that the first church was dedicated to him: and that St. Nicholas comes down chimneys to bring gifts. Irving's work was regarded as the "first notable work of imagination in the New World."\n\nThe New York Historical Society held its first St. Nicholas anniversary dinner on December 6, 1810. John Pintard commissioned artist Alexander Anderson to create the first American image of Nicholas for the occasion. Nicholas was shown in a gift-giving role with children's treats in stockings hanging at a fireplace. The accompanying poem ends, "Saint Nicholas, my dear good f