Origins of the NORAD Santa tracker

From NPR:

This Christmas Eve people all over the world will log on to the official Santa Tracker to follow his progress through U.S. military radar. This all started in 1955, with a misprint in a Colorado Springs newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret hotline at the Continental Air Defense Command, now known as NORAD.

Shoup's children, Terri Van Keuren, 65, Rick Shoup, 59, and Pam Farrell, 70, recently visited StoryCorps to talk about how the tradition began.

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The animated holiday display windows at Printemps, a high end department store in Paris. [h/t: Martini's for Milk]




Doctor Who BBC One Christmas Ident 2009 with David Tennant