Since the 1960s it has been making many stop motion Christmas specials such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and many others.

* December 6 – The 1-hour stop-motion animated special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, based on the popular Christmas song, premieres on NBC.

** Robert L. May ( Rudolph ), Creator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ( b. 1905 )

Animated film Quest for Camelot and as Slyly the albino arctic fox in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie.

The series was produced by Rankin / Bass, who also made the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ( television special ) and Frosty the Snowman.

* The annual American Christmas broadcast special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Aside from the 1950 marionette special The Spirit of Christmas, it was the first animated holiday program ever produced specifically for television, originally airing in December 1962, and the only one until the stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was first shown in December 1964.

The Rankin-Bass studio produced a number of stop-motion specials geared towards popular holidays ( including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus Is Comin ' to Town ); while Bill Melendez's long-running series of Peanuts specials won numerous awards, spawned four feature films, and even launched a Saturday morning series.

New mythical characters are added — and defined -- by these songs, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ( first described in a book, but popularized by the related song ) and Frosty the Snowman.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a fictional reindeer with a glowing red nose.

" Publication and reprint rights for the book Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer are controlled by Pearson Plc.

Maxton Books published the first mass-market edition of Rudolph and also published a sequel, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Shines Again in 1954.

In 2003, Penguin Books issued a reprint version of the original Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer with new artwork by Lisa Papp.

DC Comics, then known as National Periodical Publications, published a series of 13 annuals titled Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer from 1950 to 1962.

An animated feature film of the story was produced in 1998, titled Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie.

GoodTimes Entertainment, the producers of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie, brought back most of the same production team for a CGI animated sequel, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys in 2001.

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While in college playing together at local Christian coffee houses, Jars gained quite a reputation for their very original arrangement of " Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer " which had been deftly adapted to the tune of Nirvana's " Smells Like Teen Spirit ".

Rudolph is also given a brother, Rusty Reindeer, in the 2006 American special, Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis have given Rudolph another brother in a series of Over the Hedge comic strips ; an overweight, emotionally-damaged reindeer named " Ralph, the Infra-Red nosed Reindeer ", who has a red nose just like Rudolph's, but his is good for defrosting Santa's sleigh and warming up toast and waffles.

Rudolph has a cousin, Leroy, in Joe Diffie's 1995 song, " Leroy the Redneck Reindeer ".

* On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, the elder brother of the 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw to " send a message to the FBI and the media.

In it, Gans writes of an audience between the Maharal and Rudolph II: " Our lord the emperor … Rudolph … sent for and called upon our master Rabbi Low ben Bezalel and received him with a welcome and merry expression, and spoke to him face to face, as one would to a friend.

One day, the trio discover that one of Theodore's former assistants, Rudolph Gore-Slimey (), has stolen his design for a race car engine, and has become a world champion Formula One driver.

He made major contributions to the theory of approximate molecular orbital ( MO ) calculations, starting with one identical to the one developed by Rudolph Pariser and Robert G. Parr on pi electron systems, and now called the Pariser-Parr-Pople method.

Rudolph Rummel says, "... no researcher should accept any one or two tests as definitive.

In 2000 Sports Illustrated magazine ranked Rudolph as number one in its listing of the top fifty greatest sports figures in twentieth-century Tennessee.

In 1977 a made-for-TV docudrama titled Wilma ( also known as The Story of Wilma Rudolph ) was produced by Bud Greenspan ; it starred Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Jason Bernard and Denzel Washington in one of his first roles.

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Rudolph then re-invested Ottokar with the Kingdom of Bohemia, betrothed one of his daughters to Ottokar's son Wenceslaus II, and made a triumphal entry into Vienna.

In 1286 King Rudolph fully invested the Duchy of Carinthia, one of the provinces conquered from Ottokar, to Albert's father-in-law Count Meinhard.

Rudolph Valentino, one of the first " teen idols " of the 20th century

Rudolph Valentino was one of the first great film icons.

Taken over in 1909 by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company after De Kleist became mayor of North Tonawanda in 1906, Wurlitzer became one of the largest musical instrument manufacturing plants in the world.

The couple have one daughter, Millicent ( Milly ), born in 1889 ; their son Rudolph ( Rudy ), born in December 1893, died after eleven days.

Harassed mercilessly and excluded by his peers because of this trait, Rudolph manages to prove himself one Christmas Eve after Santa Claus catches sight of his nose and asks him to lead his sleigh for the evening.

Bible is one of the several women titled " Lady In Black ," carrying on the tradition of the mysterious woman who put a rose on Rudolph Valentino's grave every year.

Johann Gottfried Schadow and his son Rudolph, one of the few neoclassical sculptors to die young, were the leading German artists, with Franz Anton Zauner in Austria.

John Rudolph Niernsee, one of the most famous architects of the time, designed the orphan asylum and helped to design the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

In Upper Burgundy, one Rudolph, a dux of the region, was elected as king in a distinctly non-Carolingian creation, probably the result of his failure to succeed in the whole of Lotharingia.

The original name of one of the oldest settlements in the Czech Republic was Hradec ( the Castle ); Králové ( of the queen ) was affixed when it became one of the dowry towns of Elisabeth Richeza of Poland ( 1286 – 1335 ), who lived here for thirty years having been the second wife of two Bohemian Kings, Wenceslaus II and then Rudolph I of Habsburg.