Legends of Santa

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Archaeologists in Turkey believe they have discovered the tomb of Saint Nicholas, famously known as Santa Claus

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Young Santa before he was employed by Coca Cola.

[Jasin]

Santa was a forest hobo in Finland.
He would eat the same magic mushrooms the reindeer did and get high on his magic sleigh
Reindeer in Finland, when consuming the mushies, would bump into trees and hence the pun on the Red Nose reindeer

Personally, I think this one is most likely a true basis for the Finland Santa at least.

[Bobby]

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Three Santas in Yakutia.

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The one in center Chyyskhan, which in Yakut means "cold, sharp, piercing wind", was there long before Christianity.

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Hot Santa chilling in ice hole

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This new view of the “Christmas tree cluster” NGC 2264, released on Dec. 17, 2024, combines data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical data from astrophotographer Michael Clow’s telescope in Arizona. Chandra data is represented in red, purple, blue, and white, while optical data is in green and violet.

Located about 2,500 light-years from Earth, NGC 2264 is a cluster of young stars between one and five million years old. The stars are seen here as blue and white lights surrounded by swirls of gas—the “pine needles” of the tree—with green representing light in the visible spectrum.

[Jasin]

Amazing. Bigger than God.

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George Orwell reads about 2025

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[Jasin]