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“Merry Christmas”Argentine – Felices Pascuas y Felices A o NuevoAruba (language: Papiamento) – Bon Pasco y Feliz A a NoboBohemian – Vesele VanoceBrazilian – Boas Festas e Feliz Ano NovoBulgarian – Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo ristovoChinese – (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan (Catonese) Sing Dan Fi LockDanish – Glaedelig JulDutch – Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gulek kig Nieuwjaar!Engish (American) – Merry ChristmasFilipino – Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon sa Inyong LahatFilipino (dialect: Tagalog) – Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon sa Inyong LahatFrench – Joyeux NoelGerman – Froehliche WeihnachtenGreen – Kala Christouyenna!Hawaiian – Mele KalikimakaHebrew – Mo’adim Lesimkha. Chena tovaHindi – Shub Naya BarasHungarian – Kellemes Karacsonyi un nepeketIcelandic – Gledileg JolIndonesian – Selamat Hari NatalIraqi – Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah

Irish – Nollaig Shona DhuitItalian – Buon NataleJapanese – Kurisumasu wa Omedeto gozaimasu. Shinnen omedeto.Korean – Sung Tan Chuk Ha (Merry Christmas only!)Maltese – Il-Milied u is-sena t-tajba lil kullhadd.Manx – Nollick ghennal as blein vie noaNavajo – Merry KeshmishNorwegian – God JulPennsyvania German – En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!Polish – Wesolych Swiat (Bozego Narodzenia)Portuguese – Boas FestasRomanian – Sarbatori veseleRussian – Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdesva is Novium GodomSerbian – Hristos se rodiSlovakian – Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoceScots Gaelic – Nollaig chridheil huibhSerb-Croatian – Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova GodinaSlovak – Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy RokSpanish – Feliz NavidadSwedish – God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt ArThai – Sook Sun Wun Christmas Lae Sawaddee Pee Mai Ka (female ending)Vietnamese – chung Mung Giang SinhYugoslavian – Cestitamo Bozic

Little 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon of 115 West 95th Street in New York wrote to the New York Sun in 1897, and said that some of her friends said Santa does not exist.

She went on, “Papa says, “If you see it in the Sun, it is so!” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?”

And this is what editor Francis P. Church wrote:

“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you

know that they abound and give your life its highest beauty and joy.

“Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus!

“It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no ro-mance to make tolerable this existence.

“We would have no enjoyment ex-cept in sense and sight.

The eternal light with which child-hood fills the world would be extin-guished.”

Yes, VirginiaThere is a Santa

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MerryChristmas

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MerryChristmas

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