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.

* 1897 – The " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus " editorial is published in the New York Sun.

The strip ends with the husband saying to his wife " Yes Virginia, there is a Father Christmas ".

The editorial, which included the famous reply " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus ", has become an indelible part of popular Christmas folklore in the United States and Canada.

In 1971, after seeing Virginia's obituary in The New York Times, four friends formed a company, called Elizabeth Press, and published a children's book titled Yes, Virginia that illustrated the editorial and included a brief history of the main characters.

In 1996, the story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted into a holiday musical " Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus " by David Kirchenbaum ( music and lyrics ) and Myles McDonnel ( book ).

In 2003 " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus " was depicted in a mechanical holiday window display at the Lord & Taylor department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Another indication of the popularity of " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus " is the use of " Yes, Virginia, there is ( a ) ( subject – person, object, activity, and / or concept )" ( or similar phrase ) in satire, parody, and as an idiomatic expression to insist that something is true, without the expression becoming a cliché.

Macy's, in partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, launched its first Believe campaign in 2008, based on " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus ".

The 2008 Macy's Believe holiday commercial featured Jessica Simpson, Donald Trump, Martha Stewart and others quoting various popular lines from " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

In 2009, Macy's and Macy's ad agency JWT produced Yes, Virginia, a CGI animated Christmas special, after pitching and selling the idea to CBS.

The 2009 holiday season impacts from the " Yes, Virginia " special broadcast on the CBS television network on December 11, 2009, were: 1 ) " Yes, Virginia " reached more than 3. 7 million television viewers, 2 ) the associated public relations effort resulted in a substantial lift in overall exposure during Macy's most critical season with 1. 84 billion impressions generated, 3 ) On the night of the show on December 11, 2009, " Yes, Virginia " was Google's No. 1 and No. 4 hottest search terms, 4 ) " Yes, Virginia " made TV Guide's coveted Hot List.

The answer is, `` Yes ''!!

`` Yes, sir '', she said, `` is that definite ''??

Became `` Yes, the first half hour is tough, but by then I'm so numb I don't notice it ''!!

Yes, he believed that the Jews were `` enemies of the Reich '', and such a belief is, of course, typical of `` patriotic '' anti-Semites ; ;

Yes, this is she??

`` Yes, what is it ''??

Yes, and as tension mounts in this world, fear is increasing.

Yes, Arlene is her name ; ;

Next to each name is a checkbox, or another similar way to mark ' Yes ' or ' No ' for that candidate.

Yes it is caused by God.

However, interim President Kabila urged Congolese to vote ' Yes ', saying the constitution is the country's best hope for peace in the future.

The asks for an algorithm that takes as input a statement of a first-order logic ( possibly with a finite number of axioms beyond the usual axioms of first-order logic ) and answers " Yes " or " No " according to whether the statement is universally valid, i. e., valid in every structure satisfying the axioms.

An often quoted example is Samuel Johnson's definition for oats: " Oats: a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people ", to which his Scots friend, Lord Elibank, retorted, " Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?

* Yes, I have seen Galaxy Quest and no, Star Trek fandom is not really like that.

Paul heard him out and said merely, " Yes, pray for me ; because of my weaknesses, the Church is badly governed ".

Accepting an offer is usually accompanied by adding a new offer, often building on the earlier one ; this is a process improvisers refer to as " Yes, And ..." and is considered the cornerstone of improvisational technique.

Yes, Antichrist is near whom the Lord Jesus Christ “ shall consume with the spirit of his mouth .” “ Woe unto them ,” he cries, “ that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days .”... Savage tribes in countless numbers have overrun all parts of Gaul.

The saying " Let your Yes be Yes and your No be No " from James 5: 12 is interpolated into a sayings complex from Matthew 5: 34, 37.

A similar example is the Politician's syllogism, satirized on the television show Yes Minister:

The Dangerhouse session version of " Los Angeles " was also featured in a Dangerhouse compilation in 1979 called " Yes L. A ." ( a play on the now-famous No Wave compilation No New York ), a picture disc that featured other early-punk-era LA bands like the Weirdos and Black Randy.

", and reboot his mind by explaining him a simplified version of the God as essentially omnipotent solution (" Yes.

) Among performing her classic hits, other numbers unreleased in the album version included " I Believe You " by The Carpenters, a rap version of " Liza With A ' Z '", " Yes ", and Mary J. Blige's " Family Affair.

The British progressive rock band Yes included an extended cover of this song on their 1969 debut album and have played their version live on many occasions.

A computer game version of Yes, Prime Minister was released in 1987 for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson Stout and a bit part in Dad's Army, his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in the television series Yes Minister ( and Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister ), for which he won four BAFTA awards, and as King George III in Alan Bennett's stage play The Madness of George III ( Olivier Award ) and the film version entitled The Madness of King George, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

The band also made gramophone records for various record labels, including OKeh, Edison, Cameo and Pathé Records ; their biggest hit was a 1925 version of " Yes Sir, That's My Baby " for Columbia Records.

This revival added Kahn / Donaldson songs not in the original 1928 show: " My Baby Just Cares For Me " ( from the 1930 film version ), " Yes, Sir, That's My Baby ", and " You " ( lyrics by Harold Adamson ).

** cover version: Ja, wenn wir alle Englein wären (" Yes, if we were all little angels ", 1981, Fred Sonnenschein und seine Freunde aka Frank Zander )

This version pronounced his name " mix-yes-spit-lick " and demonstrated this by turning into a mixer, an album cover of the group Yes, back into himself while spitting at Superman, and then a dog that licks him ; he demonstrated the pronunciation after, in a nod to the old Super Friends cartoon, Clark read his name using the pronunciation from that series, " Mix-ul-plict ".

In April 1970, Howe joined Yes and after retreating to a farm in Devon to rehearse and write new material, he played his first show with the group at the Lyceum on 7 July 1970 ( where the version of " Clap " on The Yes Album was recorded ).

The Yes Album had the first live version of Clap, a heavily syncopated guitar Rondo with roots in Ragtime, and Country Blues.

A version of Twenty Questions called Yes and No is played as a parlor game by characters of Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol.

The Yes Album was remastered and reissued in 2003 by Rhino Records with several bonus tracks, including a studio version of " Clap ".

The original LP and CD version of The Yes Album refer to the song as " The Clap ".

Howe guested on Wakeman's solo album The 3 Ages of Magick, while Wakeman is on Howe's 2005 solo album Spectrum and contributed to Howe's recording of " Australia " for the US version of the Yes collection The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection.

" The More We Live " was the product of a new writing partnership between Chris Squire and Billy Sherwood, who had briefly been considered as replacement for Jon Anderson in the Rabin-led version of Yes.

Under a modified version of the Missouri Plan, appellate judges ( including supreme court justices ) would only be subjected to a " Yes / No " retention vote rather than partisan opponents.

In the same year she appeared as the Prime Minister's special policy advisor, Claire Sutton, in Anthony Jay's and Jonathan Lynn's stage version of Yes, Prime Minister, which premiered at the Chichester Festival in May 2010 and moved to the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End in September 2010.

In 2010 he played the role of Jim Hacker in the stage version of Yes, Prime Minister at the Chichester Festival Gielgud Theatre, in London's West End from 17 September 2010.