In addition to these two totem animals, the man who thought them up — political cartoonist Thomas Nast — also thought up the characters of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus. He used all four of his ...

In 1881 -- five years before the founding of The Coca-Cola Company -- political cartoonist Thomas Nast drew an extremely popular version of Santa based on Moore's poem. Nast's Santa was somewhat ...

Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus showed him in a dark frock with animal print fur trim and bold red boots. Thomas Nast was crucial in shaping Santa's image. In 1863, during the ...

In 1863, Thomas Nast illustrated the poem and decided to dress Santa in a red suit and make his home the North Pole. In 1927, a Finnish radio personality called Uncle Markus announced that Santa's ...

Eventually, St. Nicholas morphed into the secular Santa Claus. Artist Thomas Nast, an engraver in Morristown, New Jersey, who illustrated the front cover of Harper’s magazine for many years ...

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Thomas F. Meyers, born in Wilmington, Delaware, on Oct. 5, 1934, went home to the Lord on April 5, 2025, in Santa Maria. Tom enlisted in the National Guard at as a young man and served his country ...

Looking for quality Greek food in Boston? One Greek restaurant in the South End was just named one of 2025's best new restaurants by Condé Nast Traveler. The magazine's "2025 Hot List" was ...

The bigger concern will be for 2026 if the situation remains unchanged,” says Paul Brown, operations manager of Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska. Debi Thomas, owner of the Los Angeles ...

The past 1,064 days have been a long and trying odyssey for Justin Thomas. When he walked off the green at the 2022 PGA Championship holding the Wanamaker Trophy, he was a two-time major champion ...