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Talk:On the Origin of Species: Jynx (view source)
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::Indeed, as has been said (and I hope it gets adapted), it's not entirely correct. Saint Nicholas' name in German is Santa Claus, and the modern day Santa comes from the Dutch/Belgian(Flemish at least, dunno about Wallonia)/German legend of Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children, who was actually a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas Turk] (little known fact), but iirc he later moved to Spain. When the colonists went to America, they brought over the tradition, and it turned into the modern Santa Claus when big companies (Coca cola most notably, who weren't the first to use him though) started using him for advertising, depicting him as a rather short tubby guy instead of the traditional tall slim man.--[[User:El Nazgir|El Nazgir]] 15:32, 27 August 2010 (UTC) | |||
==Caroline Boston Weatherford== | ==Caroline Boston Weatherford== | ||