Santa Claus America’s biggest department store cameo ride
CHIP ROYAL recalls playing Santa at Macy’s to fulfill a supervisor’s order. He details the backstage routine for the volunteer “Santa” team, handling anxious kids, offering lollipops, and the backstage nerves before stepping into the throne. Parents’ smiles outshining the children’s nerves.
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Chip Royal
AP News
New York
Santa Claus
Macy's
Santa
Jolly St. Nick
Americans On A Steady Trip
At Chicago Union Station a returning soldier sees a cross section of travelers as the nation nears a pre Christmas rail rush. Businessmen sailors coeds and families form a panorama of the wartime mobility with rail lines projected to carry about 900 million passengers and 95 billion miles in 1944.
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Chicago
Union Station
East
G. I
U. S
HAWKERS HAWK THE NATIVITY SITE AT BETHLEHEM
Visitors throng Bethlehem on Christmas Day observed January 6 as vendors set up outside the Church of the Nativity. hawkers sell crosses, trinkets, sweets, and beggars tell tales amid a diverse crowd including Muslims and Jews. Legend notes Arabs spared the church due to the Three Kings tale on the door.
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Bethlehem
Damascus
Holy Land
Jesus
Nassau Crowned as Bahamas Capital with 20 000 Inhabitants
Nassau, the capital of the Bahama islands, is described as having a population of 20 000 inhabitants. The note highlights Nassau's status as the central hub of government and commerce in the archipelago.
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Nassau
Bahama Islands
Christmas elf on guard in Danish folklore
Jule-Nisse differs from Santa as a small attic dwelling elf tending cattle and keeping homes peaceful. He guards households with contention or mischief and inspires Danish children to behave as Christmas nears.
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Jule-Nisse
Santa Claus
Nisse
First to see year the Han son Island colony greets 1945
The British colony on Han son Island in the Chathams will be the first to greet 1945, located 414 miles southeast of Wellington, New Zealand. It sits just east of the international date line from which time is reckoned.
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Hanson Island
Chathams
Wellington
New Zealand
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