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It seems that it was Luther who messed it all up (not wanting St Nikolaus) in catholic Germanic lge areas we still have St Nikolaus and in the Netherlands, who didn't give in (maybe because they were mainly calvinist: Northern Belgium, Austria, also Switzerland (again Calvinism?) but, according to one of my friends one has also St Nikolaus in Georgia! <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Annie<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Fritz Goerling wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">Yesterday I drove around Bamako/Mali together with a British colleague. We got a kick out of watching </SPAN><ST1:STREET w:st="on"><ST1:ADDRESS w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">Malian street</SPAN></ST1:ADDRESS></ST1:STREET><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> vendors selling inflatable Santa Clauses (Father Christmases) at red lights. To my surprise I learnt from my British colleague that the Brits call Santa Claus by the name Father Christmas while in German these are two different characters. In </SPAN><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">Germany</SPAN></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">St.</SPAN></ST1:PLACE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> Nikolaus comes on the 6</SPAN><SUP style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">th</SPAN></SUP><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> of December, and the Weihnachtsmann (Santa, Father Christmas) comes on Christmas Eve.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">What tradition do you have in your language/country and how do you refer to Santa/Father Christmas as one or two different persons?</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">Merry Chistmas!</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; ">Fritz Goerling</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="apple-style-span"><FONT size="1" color="black" face="Helvetica"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></P></DIV><SPAN width="1" style="color: white;; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></SPAN></SPAN></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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