The book (and Irving’s clever marketing of ... marketing campaign by the company in the last century. Santa Claus’s history with Coke (the soda, to be specific) stems from the 1920s, when ...

The Greenbrier celebrates holidays with decorations, Dream Tree Washington Irving helped bring popularity to the stories of Sinterklaas in 1809 with mentions of St. Nicholas in his book The History of ...

Santa Claus' origins date back to about 280 ... stories of Sinter Klaas became popularized through Washington Irving's book, "The History of New York." Irving referred to Claus as "the patron ...

Pat continued: “Above that first Santa Claus, they wrote Santa Clause - which isn’t correct - but that person changed our history completely. We don’t know who that person was.” ...

But the mightiest — and merriest — mutant of all is Santa Claus, according to a Christmas Eve encounter with the X-Men. In 1991’s Marvel Holiday Special #1, a yuletide tale by writer Scott ...

From St. Nick to Santa to ... call him Santa Claus, but the bearded guy in the red suit is a man known by many names. Whether it’s St. Nick, Santa or Kris Kringle, the history of how he got ...