Santa Claus is widely known today as a jolly ... In 1881 -- five years before the founding of The Coca-Cola Company -- political cartoonist Thomas Nast drew an extremely popular version of Santa ...

The character of Santa Claus is based on the Christian bishop Saint Nicholas of Bari, who was widely known for being a generous man who distributed gifts to the poorest, especially children.

Santa Claus’ uniform may have some variations ... Santa’s iconic costume had been (determined) decades before.” Coca-Cola wasn’t even the first soft drink to promote Santa in his suit ...

Santa Claus’ uniform may have some variations ... Santa’s iconic costume had been (determined) decades before.” Coca-Cola wasn’t even the first soft drink to promote Santa in his suit ...

The classic Claus that so many of us know by heart comes from Clement Clarke Moore’s 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” commonly referred to as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.” ...

This Dutch background is key because Santa Claus is in fact a borrowing into English of the Dutch name Sinter Klaas, which sometimes dialectally appeared as Sante Klaas. Still, before the 1830s ...