One of these original songs, " LeRoy the Redneck Reindeer ", was issued as a Christmas single late in the year, peaking at number 33 upon its initial release and re-entering the country music charts for the next two years based on Christmas airplay.

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 ".

The Russian name " Chukchi " is derived from the Chukchi word Chauchu (" rich in reindeer "), which was used by the ' Reindeer Chukchi ' to distinguish themselves from the ' Maritime Chukchi ,' called Anqallyt (" the sea people ").

Each December the Zoo also offers a special Reindeer Festival, during which people may come view, and feed Santa's Reindeer, and visit the " big guy " in person.

Before Christmas 1999, GTR released Christmas All Over The World, his first seasonal album, with half being Christmas standards such as " Jingle Bells ", " White Christmas ", " Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer ", " What Are You Doing New Year's Eve ", " The Christmas Song ( Chestnuts Roasting )", and " Joy to the World ", on which his daughter Elizabeth accompanied him.

In addition to his signature song, " Back in the Saddle Again ", Autry is still remembered for his Christmas holiday songs, " Here Comes Santa Claus ", which he wrote, " Frosty the Snowman ", and his biggest hit, " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ".

Banbury played an important part in the English Civil War as a base of operations for Oliver Cromwell, who is reputed to have planned the Battle of Edge Hill in the back room ( which can still be visited ) of a local inn, The Reindeer as it was then known ( today's Ye Olde Reine Deer Inn ).

Honey's prediction becomes all the more alarming when Scott links it with the recent crash of a Reindeer carrying the Soviet ambassador, which had total flying hours close to Honey's estimate, and which crashed in northeastern Quebec.

Honey is sent to Canada to examine the debris of the crash, travelling on board a Reindeer aircraft on which he meets the two heroines of the novel, Corder and Teasdale.

The Reindeer Section are a Scottish indie rock supergroup formed in 2001 by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, which released albums and gigged in 2001 and 2002.

The Reindeer Section arose – according to Lightbody – out of a chance get-together of musicians at a Lou Barlow gig in Glasgow in 2001, at which Lightbody drunkenly laid down the challenge to others to " make an album together ", to which everyone said " yeah yeah ".

Among Marks's many works is " Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer ", which was based on a poem of the same name, written by Marks ’ s brother-in-law, Robert L. May, Rudolph's creator.

It was a stop-motion animated adaptation of the Johnny Marks song " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( which had been made into a Max Fleischer traditional animated short almost two decades before ).

Further Sodankylä is home to Luosto, which is a ski and safari resort in the heart of the national forest that specialises in authentic and uncommercialised Husky, Reindeer, Skidoo and Santa excursions.

It weighed the equivalent of three Reindeer and was filled with 1000 presents, which were then given to children in The Children's Society's projects.

Reindeer hunting – which is also commonplace in many other parts of the world – is considered so vital to the cultural heritage of certain groups that there is an attempt being made to get it placed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

A large amount of flow of the Churchill River after Manitoba-Saskatchewan border comes from the Reindeer River, which flows from Wollaston and Reindeer lakes.

Artistic work blossomed, with Venus figurines, cave painting, carvings and engravings on bone or ivory ( such as the Swimming Reindeer ), petroglyphs and exotic raw materials found far from their sources, which suggests emergent trading links.

Operation Reindeer, which began on 4 May 1978, was South Africa's second major military operation in Angola, the first being Operation Savannah.

Their other television work includes Black Books, the Comic Relief one-off special Robbie the Reindeer, for which he and Cecil won a BAFTA in 2000, Little Britain, Trigger Happy TV, So Graham Norton, Smack the Pony, The Armando Iannucci Shows and Spitting Image.

The scene where Scuzzlebutt puts a star on top of a tree is a reference to a similar scene in the 1964 television special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, in which the Abominable Snow Monster places a Christmas star atop a large tree.

Monstrous pies were a feature of 18th-century Essex rural festivals ; the Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie festival is still in existence, and other inns around the edge of Epping Forest were famed for pies ( rabbit pie at The Reindeer, Loughton, now Warren House, and pigeon pie at The King's Head, Chigwell ).

Reindeer herds were managed in the Shaktoolik area around 1905.

Reindeer herders from Lapland were brought to Unalakleet to teach sound herding practices in 1898.

Ives ' " A Holly Jolly Christmas " and " Silver and Gold " are now considered Christmas standards some 45 years after they were first featured in the 1964 CBS-TV presentation of the Rankin & Bass stop-motion animated family special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Reindeer were introduced on the island in 1900 in an attempt to bolster the economy.

ABC has since expanded this holiday programming, adding made-for-television movies, a litany of Rankin-Bass sequels ( this was complicated somewhat because the broadcasting rights some of the original specials, including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, were still owned by CBS ), and other original programming to create " The 25 Days of Christmas.

Reindeer were offered up to them, and every clan and family had its own hill of sacrifice.

As indicated by the title of Belle & Sebastian's third record, The Boy with the Arab Strap, and by Aidan Moffat's involvement in the two Reindeer Section albums, they were a central part of Glasgow's influential late 1990s music scene.

Lilliendahl supplied them with defective rockets, and before the station was built, they were forced to tow the dead whales to the Reindeer, where they were flensed and processed the old fashioned way.

Of course their faces were covered with glitter, their hair was full of glitter, the actors who played the Moon Reindeer had their entire bodies covered in green glitter.

Stand-alone Christmas specials are also popular, from newly created animated shorts and movies to repeats of those that were popular in previous years, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and A Charlie Brown Christmas.

These plans were abandoned and were expanded into a new plan called Operation Reindeer.

During this time, such novelty recordings as " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( a Montgomery Ward jingle that became a book and later a classic children's movie ) and the fictional music group " The Chipmunks " were among the most commercially successful music ventures of the time (" The Chipmunk Song " was a # 1 hit single in 1958 ).

Novelty recordings like " Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( a Montgomery Ward jingle that became a book and later a classic children's movie ) and the fictional music group " The Chipmunks " were among the most commercially successful music ventures of the time.

At the launch of Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941, German units of Alpine Corps Norwegen were sent east from Norway to occupy Petsamo, in Operation Reindeer ( Renntier ).

Bakuli and Kima Bay were added to Splashin ' Safari, Turkey Whirl and Plymouth Rock Café were added to the Thanksgiving section, the Star Spangled Carousel replaced Thunder Bumpers on Chesapeake Bay in the Fourth of July section, and Reindeer Games replaced Kids Castle in the Christmas section.

Kronstam dominated the Royal Danish Ballet's repertory for more than two decades, dancing over 120 roles, many of which were created, such as the role of Romeo in Sir Frederick Ashton's Romeo and Juliet ( 1955 ), the Husband in John Cranko's Secrets ( 1956 ), Nilas in Birgit Cullberg's Moon Reindeer ( 1958 ), and the Prince in Flemming Flindt's The Nutcracker ( 1971 ).

By the end of 1984, it was reported that sales of " Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer " were, by record label: Oink: 50, 000 45s sold ; Soundwaves: 175, 000 45s sold ; Epic: 150, 000 45s sold and 90, 000 LPs sold.

In both surveys, results of which were reported in 2007, the only song that reached the top of both " most-disliked lists " was " Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

Reindeer lichen, like many lichens, is slow growing ( 3 – 5 mm per year ) and may take decades to return once overgrazed, burned, trampled, or otherwise consumed.

In 1863 Roys refitted the Reindeer and once again sailed to Iceland, but he damaged his rudder while off the coast of the island, and was only able to save one of the many whales he shot that season.