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Based on historical data and more than 50 years of NORAD tracking information, they believe that Santa Claus is alive and well in the hearts of children throughout the world.

Santa Claus is known by many names, including Saint Nick. Historians claim that the history of Santa starts with the tradition of Saint Nicholas, a 4th century Christian priest who lived in the Middle East in an area of present-day Turkey who became famous for his kindness. He was known for giving gifts to the less fortunate, sprinkling gifts of gold down people’s chimneys or hiding surprises in their stockings.

It may be that the Santa we know today emerged from the legacy of Saint Nicholas. Clearly, Santa’s basic approach to gift giving is strikingly similar. Could they be the same person? Only Santa Claus knows for sure.

Long before the Wright brothers flew the first airplane or the Montgolfier brothers launched the first hot air balloon, Santa had to find a way to travel from house to house at great speed. We know from our Santa Cam images that Santa’s choice for quick transportation was a herd of flying reindeer. Detailed information on these reindeer remains elusive; we do know, however, that Santa enlisted the reindeer to help him with his worldwide mission of gift-giving. A veil of sweet mystery hides the rest.

by noradsanta.org

Have you seen any trailers for the new 2012 movie? Did it make you think that the world was going to come to an end? If the answer is yes, then you are not alone.

The movie is about the 2012 Mayan prophecy .. many people believe the world is going to end because the Mayan calendar ended on or around December 21, 2012.

Well the movie studio have decided to use this to their advantage, creating face websites and Facebook pages making people fear the end of the world is coming.

It has become so bad that thousands of people are emailing NASA with fears about doomsday, this has caused NASA scientist David Morrison to release a statement saying “I don’t have anything against the movie. It’s the way it’s been marketed and the way it exploits people’s fears.”

As for what Morrison thinks about the Mayan calendar ending on that date, he says “Calendars exist for keeping track of the passage of time, not for predicting the future. The Mayan astronomers were clever, and they developed a very complex calendar. Ancient calendars are interesting to historians, but they cannot match the ability we have today to keep track of time, or the precision of the calendars currently in use. The main point, however, is that calendars, whether contemporary or ancient, cannot predict the future of our planet or warn of things to happen on a specific date such as 2012. I note that my desk calendar ends much sooner, on December 31 2009, but I do not interpret this as a prediction of Armageddon. It is just the beginning of a new year.”

Warren Betts, whose company helps push out the real science stories tied to movies, also weighed in on this movie saying they have gone too far with the promotions.

He said, “I think people are really, really worried about the world coming to an end. Kids are contemplating suicide. Adults tell me they can’t sleep and can’t stop crying. There are people who are really, really scared. People are very gullible, it a sad testimonial that you need NASA to tell you the world’s not going to end.”

This is absolutely ridiculous, it embarrasses me that people are gullible they fell for the Y2K and now have fallen for the 2012 (when the 2012 prophecy is based on a calendar ending, nobody saying we are all going to die). I have a feeling that a lot of people will be killing themselves in 2012 and doing crazy things because they think the end is coming.

Here are the list of the films that will be showed on the Cham Palace Cinema

A Syrian model, center, displays a creation during a competition for Syrian fashion designers with 12 participants, in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009.  The competition is the first of its kind in Syria, which in recent years has been trying to open up and soften its image as an authoritarian country, and is meant to encourage young Syrian designer talents.

Work n Art is an open public place where artists are able to exchange their experiences in different scopes of art. This place is the first of its kind in Syria; a professional artistic venue for experimentation. It provides artists with raw material, tools, technical and artistic advise, in order to enhance their abilities in the sculptor domain. Work n Art will assess workshops with pre-determined topics, gathering and reserving output in order to organize exhibitions, while making sure to guarantee the moral and professional rights of all artists. Work n Art was opened on November 22, 2008. It has since welcomed many artists of all ages, where they have competed and excelled, with their creative works.

Location: Centre Culturel Français

Hey guys have you hear about the new paintball field in Damascus, well let me tell you that soon there will be a new place to stress out, this new paintball field will be opened soon on the airport high way. There is no sign when the opening day will be, but I guess that will be soon this summer.

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