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Christmas . Did Coca-Cola really invent Santa's red suit? 5 Things You Never Know.Is it true that the origin of Santa Claus is an evil being created by German folklore?answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071222075857AAHGEu2
Germany's black forest, before Christianity came to the place, they had a legend about creatures called tomtin. These were wholly evil little dwarf-like creatures, who wore red (the color of blood). They would band together, pull a traveler to the ground and beat him. The tomtin had a leader, though. He was known as Nacht Rupert. Nacht Rupert would sometimes come into villages taking a small army of tomtin with him, and could sometimes be seen peering into windows. He would often kill those he was watching, unless the people inside were keeping to the old faiths, in which case he would give gifts. When the Catholic faith made it to the area, they were appalled at such a thing, and decided to replace the notion with a saint, who happened to be St. Nicholas. At first, though, this did not erase his sinister reputation. For some time, he was known as 'Buller Claus' (translates to 'Belled 'Nicholas') because of the chains and bells that he carried. When he approached a house, the tomtin went ahead to rouse sleeping children, drag them from their beds, and ask them questions on the Christian catechism. If they could not answer or answered incorrectly, the tomtin beat them with sharp sticks and chains while St. Nicholas pelted them with hard coal until they bled and the tomtin licked the blood from their wounds. If they were able to answer correctly, they were (grudgingly) rewarded with an apple or sweetmeat. Luckily, St. Nicholas would only come once a year, on a certain day in winter. Later, the image of the tomtin softened, and they became 'Santa's little helpers' or 'Christmas Elves'. Also, things changed around a bit, and now it is Santa who wears the red (color of blood) suit. Just think of that next time you see Santa at the shopping mall!
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The Santa Claus we all know and love — that big, jolly man in the red suit with a white beard — didn’t always look that way. In fact, many people are surprised to learn that prior to 1931, Santa was depicted as everything from a tall gaunt man to a spooky-looking elf. He has donned a bishop's robe and a Norse huntsman's animal skin. In fact, when Civil War cartoonist Thomas Nast drew Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly in 1862, Santa was a small elflike figure who supported the Union. Nast continued to draw Santa for 30 years, changing the color of his coat from tan to the red he’s known for today.Here, a few other things you may not have realized about the cheerful guy in the red suit.The Coca-Cola Company began its Christmas advertising in the 1920s with shopping-related ads in magazines like The Saturday Evening Post. The first Santa ads used a strict-looking Claus, in the vein of Thomas Nast.In 1930, artist Fred Mizen painted a department-store Santa in a crowd drinking a bottle of Coke. The ad featured the world's largest soda fountain, which was located in the department store Famous Barr Co. in St. Louis, Mo. Mizen's painting was used in print ads that Christmas season, appearing in The Saturday Evening Post in December 1930.In 1931 the company began placing Coca-Cola ads in popular magazines. Archie Lee, the D'Arcy Advertising Agency executive working with The Coca-Cola Company, wanted the campaign to show a wholesome Santa who was both realistic and symbolic. So Coca-Cola commissioned Michigan-born illustrator Haddon Sundblom to develop advertising images using Santa Claus — showing Santa himself, not a man dressed as Santa.For inspiration, Sundblom turned to Clement Clark Moore's 1822 poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (commonly called "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"). Moore's description of St. Nick led to an image of a warm, friendly, pleasantly plump and human Santa. (And even though it's often said that Santa wears a red coat because red is the color of Coca-Cola, Santa appeared in a red coat before Sundblom painted him.)Sundblom’s Santa debuted in 1931 in Coke ads in The Saturday Evening Post and appeared regularly in that magazine, as well as in Ladies Home Journal, National Geographic, The New Yorker and others.From 1931 to 1964, Coca-Cola advertising showed Santa delivering toys (and playing with them!), pausing to read a letter and enjoy a Coke, visiting with the children who stayed up to greet him, and raiding the refrigerators at a number of homes. The original oil paintings Sundblom created were adapted for Coca-Cola advertising in magazines and on store displays, billboards, posters, calendars and plush dolls. Many of those items today are popular collectibles.Sundblom created his final version of Santa Claus in 1964, but for several decades to follow, Coca-Cola advertising featured images of Santa based on Sundblom’s original works. These paintings are some of the most prized pieces in the art collection in the company’s archives department and have been on exhibit around the world, in famous locales including the Louvre in Paris, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the Isetan Department Store in Tokyo, and the NK Department Store in Stockholm. Many of the original paintings can be seen on display at World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Ga.In the beginning, Sundblom painted the image of Santa using a live model — his friend Lou Prentiss, a retired salesman. When Prentiss passed away, Sundblom used himself as a model, painting while looking into a mirror. Finally, he began relying on photographs to create the image of St. Nick.People loved the Coca-Cola Santa images and paid such close attention to them that when anything changed, they sent letters to The Coca-Cola Company. One year, Santa's large belt was backwards (perhaps because Sundblom was painting via a mirror). Another year, Santa Claus appeared without a wedding ring, causing fans to write asking what happened to Mrs. Claus.The children who appear with Santa in Sundblom’s paintings were based on Sundblom's neighbors — two little girls. So he changed one to a boy in his paintings.In 1942, Coca-Cola introduced "Sprite Boy," a character who appeared with Santa Claus in Coca-Cola advertising throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Sprite Boy, who was also created by Sundblom, got his name due to the fact that he was a sprite, or an elf. (It wasn’t until the 1960s that Coca-Cola introduced the popular beverage Sprite.)In 2001, the artwork from Sundblom's 1963 painting was the basis for an animated TV commercial starring the Coca-Cola Santa. The ad was created by Academy Award-winning animator Alexandre Petrov.
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Santa Claus and Christmas go hand-in-hand - in the other hand, Father Christmas is holding an ice cold bottle of Coca-Cola.The gigantic brand has more to do with the big man in red than the supposedly traditional mince pie and glass of sherry.But while it is often said his trademark red suit is solely down to the soft drink's long-running advertising campaign, many historians believe the colours were inspired by the Bishop of Myra in the 4th Century.He had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him, and so he became the model for Santa Claus.But the association with Coca-Cola has done little to harm any link with a red suit - and the brand denies it is solely responsible for Saint Nick's garb."Before the Coca‑Cola Santa was even created, St Nick had appeared in numerous illustrations and written descriptions wearing a scarlet coat," its site reads."However, it is true that Coca‑Cola advertising played a big role in shaping the jolly, rotund character we know and love today."In 1931, Swedish-American artist Haddon Sundblom was commissioned to paint Santa Claus for the company's Christmas adverts.Prior to this, he had been portrayed in a variety of ways throughout history: tall and gaunt; short and elfin; distinguished and intellectual; even downright frightening.Coca-Cola adds: "Sundblom’s paintings for Coca‑Cola established Santa as a warm, happy character with human features such as rosy cheeks, a white beard, twinkling eyes and laughter lines."This grandfather-style Coca‑Cola Santa captivated the public and, as our adverts spread globally, the perception of the North Pole’s most-famous resident changed forever."These historic Coca-Cola Christmas adverts show how little has changed in 80 years of festive marketing.Proving that they know when holidays are coming, the mega-brand have consistently put Santa Claus at the heart of their posters.Starting in 1931, a rotund St Nick holds up a glass of the iconic pop up with the tag line "my hat's off to the pause that refreshes".Even 83 years later, a smiling Santa with slightly less rosy cheeks, dominates the poster.
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America and the Creation of Santa Claus.
America and the Creation of Santa Claus: A Guide
The American Santa Claus is generally considered to have been the invention of Washington Irving and other early nineteenth-century New Yorkers, who wished to create a benign figure that might help calm down riotous Christmas celebrations and refocus them on the family. This new Santa Claus seems to have been largely inspired by the Dutch tradition of a gift-giving Sinterklaas, but it always was divergent from this tradition and was increasingly so over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. So, the American Santa is a largely secular visitor who arrives at Christmas, not the 6 December; who dresses in furs rather than a version of bishop's robes; who is rotund rather than thin; and who has a team of flying reindeer rather than a flying horse. At first his image was somewhat variable, but Thomas Nast's illustrations for Harper's Illustrated Weekly (1863-6) helped establish a figure who looks fairly close to the modern Santa. This figure was taken up by various advertisers, including Coca-Cola, with the result that he is now the 'standard' version of the Christmas visitor and has largely replaced the traditional Father Christmas in England.The Origin of American Christmas Myth and Custom - By B.K. Swartz, Jr., Emeritus Professor at Ball State University (this page is now hosted on arthuriana.co.uk by kind permission of B. K. Swartz, Jr.). A very nicely illustrated schematic version of the evolution of Santa Claus from St Nicholas, with extremely good coverage of the development of Santa Claus (including dates for the first appearance of various features).Christmas Reborn: The Creation of a Consumer Christmas - An interview with Professor Stephen Nissenbaum, author of an important book on the nineteenth-century American 're-invention' of Christmas and the creation of Santa Claus, The Battle for Christmas. This interview includes discussion of both of these topics. Santa Claus Does More Than Deliver Toys: Advertising's Commercialization of the Collective Memory of Americans - An interesting journal article from 2000 that has been made freely available (pp. 207-40 of the PDF). This provides a good summary of the early development of St Nicholas before going into considerable detail on the American tradition of Santa and its evolution and spread.Santa Claus: Building a Better Father Christmas - A good article which is largely based on Nissenbaum's work, making the case for the American tradition of Santa Claus being the creation of an early nineteenth-century New York elite, who transplanted the Dutch Sinterklaas into New York in a successful attempt to civilise Christmas.Did Coca-Cola Invent Santa Claus? - A detailed discussion of the common belief that the modern image of Santa Claus was the sole creation of 1930s Coca-Cola advertising, which rightly rejects this as a myth. Another good demolition of this myth and brief discussion of the nineteenth-century 'creation' of the American Santa Claus is available here: Did the Popular Image of Santa Claus Originate in a Coca-Cola Ad?
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Mürren Prior to 1903. And Prince Nicholas of Romania.The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Louis Glaser of Leipzig. The card was posted in Switzerland on Wednesday the 5th. August 1903. It was sent to a recipient who lived at:
The Bar,
West Grinstead,
Nr. Horsham,
Sussex,
England.
There was no message on the back of the card, as the recipient's name and address stretched across the undivided back.
Mürren
Mürren is a traditional mountain village in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland, at an elevation of 1,638 metres (5,374 ft) above sea level. It cannot be reached by public road.
It is also one of the popular tourist spots in Switzerland, and summer and winter are the seasons when Mürren becomes busy with tourists. Mürren has a year-round population of 450, but has 2,000 hotel beds.
The village features a view of the three towering mountains Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau.
Prince Nicholas of Romania
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 5th. August 1903 marked the birth of Prince Nicholas of Romania, second son of King Ferdinand I of Romania and his wife Queen Marie.
In her memoirs, his mother wrote:
"He was exceedingly independent, and always
funny. He never could be still for a second; he
was for ever “up and doing.”
Although far from good or obedient, he had a
way of getting people to do what he wanted.
Wherever Nicky went, he went to rule and order
about, not because he was imperious and
aggressive, but because he was funny.
His funniness was of the good-humoured,
irresistible kind which amuses even the dullest.
Even as a tiny tot, his repartees were so comic
that, instead of receiving the scolding he
deserved he roused instead fun and laughter.
Comically sly, he always had his own way,
breaking down every defence or restriction."
He had a long nose, piercing blue eyes and silvery hair. His mother recalled him often tugging his sister Mignon's hair.
Prince Nicholas, who was born at Peleş Castle, Sinaia, died at the age of 74 in exile on the 9th. July 1978 in Madrid, Spain.
