Santa Claus Is Coming To Town – Track Him With Norad
Several years ago, we added another holiday tradition to our list — helping NORAD keep tabs on Santa every Christmas Eve.NORAD’s Santa-tracking dates back to 1955, when a Sears and Roebuck magazine ad in Colorado Springs accidentally directed readers to call NORAD instead of the “Talk-to-Santa” hotline they were advertising.
Embracing the holiday spirit, the folks at NORAD provided callers with Santa’s location according to their radar and have tracked his journey ever since. Many years later, in 2004, the same holiday spirit inspired us to use Google Earth — it was called “Keyhole Earth Viewer” back then — to display Santa’s voyage around the world on Christmas Eve. Google hosted the entire tracker on a single machine and were excited to have an audience of 25,000 following St. Nick’s flight with us that night.
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Canadian brewery Labatt launched a controversial advertising campaign for Labatt’s Blue de-alcoholized beer, under the slogan “Leave one out for Santa. He’s driving.”. It made its debut at 45 Mac’s stores across the GTA in November and will run until month’s end. 
Today, Christmas festival is celebrated on a grand-scale in India as well as in all over the world. Christians and even the non-Christian community take part with great enthusiasm in the different festivities associated with it. Christmas celebration varies in various parts of India. In some parts, small clay oil-burning lamps, mango leaves etc are used as Christmas decorations and banana and mango trees are decorated. Churches, Markets and homes take on a festive air. There is lot of activity to celebrate in all over the world. So much eagerness is witnessed everywhere that people get high on the spirit of the festival. Balls, elaborately decorated Christmas trees, delicious cakes and Santa Claus moving in the streets distributing goodies to the children are the main attractions of Christmas festival. People decorate their houses, erect Christmas trees with branches hung with gifts and decorations, Joseph, make cribs with figures of baby Jesus Mother Mary, the three kings who come to visit the baby and shepherd boys and their herds grazing around portraying the scenes of Jesus’s Birth in the Bible. 
