Long before Santa Claus became the jolly man in red we know today, there lived a real person named Nicholas in the ancient ...

The illustrator Thomas Nast, born in 1840, is perhaps America's most famous political cartoonist. Among other things, he has been credited with the visual association of donkeys with Democrats and ...

In the 2003 movie Elf, Will Ferrell plays Buddy Hobbs, a human adopted by elves and raised in the North Pole. When he leaves home and heads to New York as a 30-year-old, his staunch belief that Santa ...

The poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” better known by its opening line “‘Twas the Night before Christmas,” has a special place among Christmas traditions, right alongside hot chocolate, caroling and ...

When you think of holiday treats, pies and sugar cookies that look like Santa Claus probably come to mind first. The Santa belly doughnut is a chocolate creme-filled doughnut inspired by the big guy ...