On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 15:51:32 -0600, wrote:
The season is here to contemplate how reindeer fly. The article below
seems to make more sense than most I have read, but I actually thought
that since the middle of the 20th century, the reindeer flew based on
electronics, mechanics, hydraulics, computers, power cells, and other
modern marvels. What do you think?
This is a SERIOUS matter, for fun and the season....
Be creative!!!
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From:
http://science-at-home.org/how-do-reindeer-fly/
How Do Reindeer Fly?
And along with that "Yes, Virginia, there is
a Santa Claus".
From: Newseum
http://tinyurl.com/pr66qxc
HERE IS A SANTA CLAUS
JOIN US DEC. 12, 2015, AT OUR 17TH ANNUAL YES, VIRGINIA FAMILY DAY
Eight-year-old Virginia OHanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New
Yorks Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial
Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has
since become historys most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in
part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other
editorials, and on posters and stamps
PHOTO GALLERY
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
THE EDITORIAL
DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, If you see it in THE SUN its so.
Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
VIRGINIA OHANLON.
115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the
skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They
think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little
minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be mens or childrens, are
little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in
his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured
by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge..
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 to
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 romance
to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in
sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world
would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You
might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas
Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming
down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign
that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those
that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on
the lawn? Of course not, but thats no proof that they are not there.
Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and
unseeable in the world.
You may tear apart the babys rattle and see what makes the noise inside,
but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man,
nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived,
could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside
that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is
it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real
and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand
years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he
will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
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http://www.newseum.org/exhibits/onli....TTiqmeEF.dpuf
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