United States Senator Royal S. Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a great white beard ; ;

Santa's lieutenants in charge of the Journal-Bulletin Santa Claus Fund are looking for the usual generous response this year from Cranston residents.

* 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

" It consisted of two segments that parodied A Christmas Carol directed by Tony Kluck and It's a Wonderful Life directed by former DreamWorks Animation director Mike deSeve, as well as Christmas-themed music videos ( taken from the first Christmas special ) and several segments in which Butt-Head answered fan mail dressed as Santa Claus while whipping a reindeer-costumed Beavis.

These include Hobgoblins, Maximum Overdrive, Howard the Duck, Breakin ', The Beastmaster, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, The Creeping Terror, Robot Monster, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Man Who Saves the World and the works of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

At the end of the second season, an inebriated Johnny LaRue is given his very own crane by Santa Claus, implying he would be able to have a crane shot whenever he wanted it.

It is common for children to be afraid of disguised, exaggerated, or costumed figures — even Santa Claus.

The Christmas ceremony is accompanied by a reading of A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore and Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus by Francis Pharcellus Church.

Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and chocolate hearts or chocolate in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day.

She also appeared in the NBC television live action production of The Year Without a Santa Claus in December 2006.

* The Year Without a Santa Claus ( 2006 ) – Mother Nature

Unlike in many other European countries, the general image of Święty Mikołaj in Poland is basically no different to the one of the Anglo-Saxon Santa Claus ( he is said to live in the North Pole, wear red clothes and a white beard, use reindeers to pull his sleigh, or enter houses via the chimney ).

* Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper ( TV special, 1978 )

Christmas and Easter costumes typically portray mythical characters such as Santa Claus ( by donning a santa suit and beard ) or the Easter Bunny by putting on an animal costume.

* Saint Nicholas Day, where St. Nicholas / Santa Claus leaves little presents in children's shoes.

In the storyline, Santa Claus is being mind-controlled by aliens into causing trouble on Earth.

" He still believed in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus ".

In the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland the modern children's folklore of Santa Claus typically includes green-clad elves with pointy ears, long noses, and pointy hats as Santa's helpers or hired workers.

A scene inset inside a circular vignette showing a " dream vision " in Santa Claus ( 1898 )

Smith used this technique again a year later in Santa Claus.

The city is also famous for the Convento de Jesus ( now known as the City Museum " Santa Joana "), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of Afonso V, St. Joana, who died in 1490.

It also has development centers at Singapore, Santa Ana, California, and Linz, Austria.

Usually Brazilian bocks are produced by local breweries or craft breweries, especially in the cities of German settlement in Santa Catarina State and also in Petrópolis, state of Rio de Janeiro.

They also appear on the flags of the Australian state of Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, as well as the flag of Magallanes Region of Chile, the flag of Londrina ( Brazil ) and several Argentine provincial flags and emblems ( for example, Tierra del Fuego and Santa Cruz ).

Carlos Alberto Valderrama Palacio (; born September 2, 1961 in Santa Marta, Colombia ), also known as El Pibe (" The Kid ") is a former Colombian football player.

* French group, under which they also included the countries that codified their law either in 19th or in the first half of the 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model ; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Louisiana, states of South America ( such as Brazil ), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon

DKW vehicles were also made in Argentina from 1960 through 1969 by IASF S. A. ( Industria Automotriz Santa Fe Sociedad Anónima ) in the city of Sauce Viejo, Santa Fe.

Other directors were also just starting to take up this style in 1915, for instance William S. Hart in Bad Buck of Santa Ynez.

Goya's works from 1814 to 1819 are mostly commissioned portraits, but also include the altarpiece of Santa Justa and Santa Rufina for the Cathedral of Seville, the print series of La Tauromaquia depicting scenes from bullfighting, and probably the etchings of Los Disparates.

Nowadays he is often called Santa Claus but also often referred to in Britain as Father Christmas: the two names are synonyms.

The Islas de la Bahía archipelago also has a number of smaller islands, among them the islets of Barbareta ( Isla Barbareta ), Santa Elena ( Isla Santa Elena ), and Morat ( Isla Morat ).

However, Guarducci also states that in 1950 an ancient image of Mary at the Church of Santa Francesca Romana was determined to be a very exact, but reverse mirror image of the original circular icon that was made in the 5th century and brought to Rome, where it has remained until the present.

The United States also negotiated a secret arrangement with Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican general and dictator who had been overthrown in 1844.

He is also now thought to have been responsible for the building of Santa Costanza on a Christian site just outside Rome as a mausoleum for his wife Helena and sister-in-law Constantina.

For the Rucellai family in Florence Alberti designed several buildings, the façade of Palazzo Rucellai, executed by Bernardo Rosselino, the façade of Santa Maria Novella, the marble-clad shrine of the Holy Sepulchre, and perhaps also the Capella Rucellai.

Fahey's posthumous live album The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick also features a version of the piece, there entitled " Requiem For Mississippi John Hurt ".

Falk was also a chess aficionado and was a spectator at the American Open in Santa Monica, California, in November 1972, and at the U. S. Open in Pasadena, California, in August 1983.

He also encouraged architecture, and the general improvement of Rome, where houses were razed to straighten and widen streets and where he had the opportunity to be a great patron for Gian Lorenzo Bernini: the decorations of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, titular churches for several of the Chigi cardinals, the Scala Regia, the Chair of St. Peter in the Vatican Basilica.

In 1261 he was created Cardinal Deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin by Pope Urban IV, who also appointed him papal prefect in Tuscany and captain of the papal army.

His two earlies known works date back to this period: two statues of saints, made of chalk, in the Oratory of Santa Maria della Vita in Bologna.

He was then employed in 1569 to build the beautiful bridge over the Arno, known as Ponte Santa Trinita and one of his most celebrated works.

The city's metro area has recently grown very rapidly and has absorbed most of the neighboring municipalities of Villa Nueva, San Miguel Petapa, Mixco, San Juan Sacatepequez, San José Pinula, Santa Catarina Pinula, Fraijanes, San Pedro Ayampuc, Amatitlán, Villa Canales, Palencia and Chinautla forming what is now known as the Guatemala City Metropolitan Area.

** Elizabeth of Portugal, patron saint of Coimbra ( city holiday ), known there as Rainha Santa Isabela.

* 1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

Under his reign Michelangelo re-built the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli ( in the Diocletian's Baths ) and the eponymous Villa Pia, now known as Casina Pio IV and headquarters of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, was designed by Pirro Ligorio in the Vatican Gardens.

Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker, is an electric and bass guitar manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California.

The traces of influences from ancient Roman and Greek art that are present in some of Masaccio's works presumably originated from this trip: they should also have been present in a lost Sagra, ( today known through some drawings, including one by Michelangelo ), a fresco commissioned for the consecration ceremony of the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence ( April 19, 1422 ).

In 1424 the " duo preciso e noto " (" well and known duo ") of Masaccio and Masolino was commissioned by the powerful and rich Felice Brancacci to execute a cycle of frescoes for the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence.

* December 7 – George Russell Weller, retired salesman known for the Santa Monica Farmer's Market incident ( d. 2010 )

* August 3 – The party of Gaspar de Portolà becomes the first white group to set foot in the area now known as Santa Monica, California.

About 342 of the Texian troops captured during the Goliad Campaign were executed a week later on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, under Santa Anna's direct orders, widely known as the Goliad Massacre.

In 1783 a financial institution known as the Monte Camerale di Santa Teresa opened here in Palazzo Marliani, with the function of managing the public debt.

* Architect Arnolfo di Cambio designs the Florentine cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore, better known simply as Il Duomo.

* Centro: ( Downtown ) is located on the 7th District and comprises the center of La Paz and principal avenues of the city, like Arce Avenue, July 16 Avenue ( also known as " Prado Avenue "), Mariscal Santa Cruz Avenue and Camacho Avenue, this last one being the home of the headquarters of the principal banks and companies of the country.

* The church of Santa Maria del Carmine is one of the best known examples of Gothic brickwork architecture in northern Italy.

* The church of Santa Maria Consolatrice degli Afflitti, simply known as Chiesa del Purgatorio, dating from 1643 and consecrated in 1667.

The 1831 Federal Pact between Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos and Santa Fe Provinces opposed a military alliance to the League and ultimately defeated it during 1832, its former members joining the Federal Pact into a loose confederation of Provinces known as the Argentine Confederation.

During the eighteenth century, the figure of the priest, mathematician and botanist José Celestino Mutis ( 1732 – 1808 ), was delegated by the Viceroy Antonio Caballero y Gongora to conduct an inventory of the nature of the Nueva Granada, which became known as the Botanical Expedition, which classified plants, wildlife and founded the first astronomical observatory in the city of Santa Fé de Bogotá.

Perhaps the best known Duomo is Milan Cathedral, but other well-known cathedrals include San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome and those of Alba, Ancona, Mantua, Parma and Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore.