But how did Santa become the holiday's figurehead? Here's a history lesson on ol' Saint Nick. Santa Claus' origins date back to about 280 A.D. when St. Nicholas was born, the History Channel reports.

Any kid can tell you where Santa Claus is from—the North Pole. But his historical journey is even longer and more fantastic than his annual, one-night circumnavigation of the globe. The ...

Throughout the last 200 years, several distinctive elements have come together to create the image of the Santa Claus children wait for each Christmas Eve. Clement Clarke Moore, an American ...

Given its predictive power, you might expect the biggest Santa Claus rally in history to have taken place during a raging bull market, but the opposite is true. Since 1969, the S&P 500's biggest ...

We explore the many faces of Santa Claus with Christmas historian... Once an elf, now a hottie: A brief history of Santa Claus When Americans catch a glimpse of Santa Claus — whether in movies ...

Our modern conception of the character of Santa Claus goes decidedly easy on what through most of his history, was one of his core functions: Not just lauding kids with gifts, but actively taking ...

It is a fact, strange but true, that Santa Claus’ corpse was stolen from its tomb. Though Christmas carols and Claymation specials have for some reason neglected the heist of St. Nick’s dead ...

A Candid History. He says he's never seen Santa portrayed in quite this way, but Santa Claus has been shape-shifting in our popular imagination for hundreds of years, taking on new meaning — and ...