<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3c0ff037-1740-426f-b90b-70334eb178c3/9CE24F65-927C-4933-81BF-9E052DB73424/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.oldeworldsantas.com/nast-santa.htm" href="http://www.oldeworldsantas.com/nast-santa.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.oldeworldsantas.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oldeworldsantas.com/nast-santa.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.oldeworldsantas.com/img/4B1AC9A6-F34D-46EB-90B3-E6B978ACC5DC" alt="A stout Santa in a short jacket, pants and stocking cap" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oldeworldsantas.com/nast-santa.htm"><BLOCKQUOTE> <SPAN id="capital2">I</SPAN>nspired by Clement Moore's poem, <I>'A Visit from St. Nick',</I> this Santa is an interpretation by political cartoonist, Thomas Nast of the 1800s. Unlike the gift-bringer of Mr. Nast's German heritage, 'Pelznickel', this one was a jolly, stout fellow as the poem portrays him. Thomas Nast's pen & ink sketches of this Santa appeared in <I>'Harper's Weekly'</I> magazine at Christmas for many years; and in his book in 1889, <I>'Thomas Nast's Christmas Drawings for the Human Race</I>'. He also originated many of the Santa Legends: Santa's home at the North Pole; the writing of letters to Santa; leaving a snack for Santa and Santa spying on childrens' behaviour throughout the year. </BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9CE24F65-927C-4933-81BF-9E052DB73424/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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