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Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Friday, December 23, 2011
12 years ago13,554 views

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/12/santa-claus-is-coming-to-town-find-out.html

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

12 years ago #

http://santa-images.searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2011/12/map-of-places-600x479.jpg

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

12 years ago #

http://www.noradsanta.org/images/picture/table.jpg

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

12 years ago #

Also

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_296w/2010-2019/Wires/Online/2011-12-24/AP/Images/NORAD%20Tracks%20Santa.JPEG-090dc.jpg

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

12 years ago #

If you are not familiar with that story yet:

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It's [was] that time of year again! The stockings are hung by the chimney with care and Google and NORAD are ready to answer the question of “where?”

NORAD’s tradition of tracking Santa on Christmas Eve started in 1955, when a Sears and Roebuck ad promoting the Talk-to-Santa hotline inadvertently sent callers to CONAD (NORAD’s predecessor) commander-in-chief’s operations hotline. After recovering from the surprise that the call was not from the Pentagon or the White House but instead a little boy inquiring if the commander was Santa Claus, Colonel Harry Shoup asked his team to check their radar for signs of Santa’s sleigh and a tradition was born.
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