Originally Posted By DAR I was watching a documentary yesterday about Santa Claus. The Dutch called St. Nick, Sinter Klause who gave presents to good people but he had a partner known as Black Peter who would take away from the bad people. It was a little un-pc but really interesting.
Originally Posted By JazzCat Ugh, disney pete! I watched that too last Sunday and really learned a lot; enjoyed it very much. I also really liked the documentary about the Christmas origins.
Originally Posted By Dave Dar, here is something else in case you didn't know. The Santa Claus as we know him in the red suit and white beard was created by Coca cola company (aka Coke)
Originally Posted By mawnck Unh-unh. <a href="http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/cocacola.asp" target="_blank">http://www.snopes.com/holidays...cola.asp</a> "However, the modern version of Santa Claus was not created by Coca-Cola; Sundblom's illustrations were based upon what had already become the standard image of Santa ... Illustrations of lavishly bearded Santas (and his predecessors), showing figures clothed in red suits (and hats) with white fur trimming, held together with broad black belts, were ... common long before Coca-Cola's first Santa Claus advertisement appeared, as evidenced by these examples from 1906, 1908, and 1925, respectively ..." Just for the record, I was pointed to this page after making the same claim elsewhere.
