"A Visit from St. Nicholas", routinely referred to as "The Night Before Christmas" and "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem...
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Clement Clarke Moore (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
developer. He is best known as author of the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which first named each of Santa Claus's reindeer. Moore was...
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Santa Claus's reindeer (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Canada are the eight listed in Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, the work that is largely responsible for the reindeer becoming...
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Christmas elf (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
tomte, and St Nicholas himself is called an elf in A Visit from St. Nicholas (1823). The origins of the elf are said to have been derived from Norse mythology...
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Saint Nicholas Day, also called the Feast of Saint Nicholas, observed on 6 December (and/or its eve on 5 December) in Western Christian countries, and...
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Henry Livingston Jr. (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
been proposed as being the uncredited author of the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, more popularly known (after its first line) as The Night Before...
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Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the...
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Anapestic tetrameter (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
verse, and prominent examples include Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas" and the majority of Dr. Seuss's poems. When used in comic form...
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Santa Claus (redirect from St. Nick)
originates from folklore traditions surrounding the 4th-century Christian bishop Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children. Saint Nicholas became renowned...
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Tetrameter (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
"Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house" ("A Visit from St. Nicholas") "And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse...
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