Smithsonian Magazine1d
Why Is Santa From the North Pole? Here’s How the Legend Originated and Why Different Towns Lay Claim to It
Santa Claus is usually good news for tourism—and locales all over the world embrace their proximity to the Christmas figure ...
In Alaska, Santa's helpers work around the clock to deliver holiday packages
During the holidays, there are 33 delivery planes a day which fly in and out of Anchorage, Alaska, carrying about 80,000 ...
What's In Santa's Bag for Pittman, Calipari and Van Horn?
Along with coach Nolan Richardson's basketball team, I spent much of the week prior to Thanksgiving in 1998 in Fairbanks, ...
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From sleigh to Humvee: Operation Santa Claus 2024 wraps up in Yakutat
Approximately 50 Alaska National Guard service members, volunteers from the Salvation Army, AKNG Child and Youth Program and ...
Where is Santa right now? NORAD tracker maps his Christmas flight
NORAD, the North American Aerospace Command, is tracking Santa on his trip around the world this Christmas, so children and ...
Alaska Dispatch News3d
Santa and Mrs. Claus use military transports to bring Christmas to Yakutat
Santa Claus meets children after arriving at the school in Yakutatas part of the Alaska National Guard's Operation Santa initiative. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen). YAKUTAT — Forget the open-air ...
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Santa and Mrs. Claus use military transports to bring Christmas to an Alaska Native village
YAKUTAT, Alaska — Forget the open-air sleigh overloaded with gifts and powered by flying reindeer. Santa and Mrs. Claus this week took supersized rides to southeast Alaska in a C-17 military ...