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 The appearance of multiple simultaneous Santa Clauses is a sure
sign that mankind's most widely recognized and commercialized
religious holiday is near. It's also a sign that the holiday is celebrated
by many more people than just faithful Christians, for better or
worse. From the traditional Christmas markets in Germany to elfin
divers feeding dolphins in Japan to the Church of the Nativity in
Bethlehem where it all began, Christmas is observed worldwide for
commercial, irreverent, and religious reasons. Gathered here are
images of people as they herald the advance of an entire season
built, loosely or faithfully, around the birth of Jesus Christ. - Lane
Turner (37 photos total)
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German bicycle
designer Didi Senft,
known during the
Tour de France as
"El Diabolo",
presents his latest
Christmas-themed
construction in
Storkow, Germany
on November 29,
2012. (Patrick
Pleul/AFP/Getty
Images)
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A diver dressed as
Santa Claus swims
with a dolphin at
Hakkeijima Sea
Paradise in
Yokohama on
November 27,
2012. (Yuriko
Nakao/Reuters) #
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Workers fill the
beard of a helium
balloon in the shape
of Santa Claus
ahead of the
Thanksgiving
parade in New York
on November 21,
2012. (Carlo
Allegri/Reuters)
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Volunteer Santas are reflected in
a fountain during their 110th
annual Sidewalk Santa Parade in
New York on November 23, 2012.
The donations they raise are used
for a holiday food voucher
program for needy residents.
(Richard Drew/Associated
Press) #

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Finished hand-made, wooden
christmas figures are displayed
at the Seiffener Volkskunst
Christmas decorations factory
on November 20, 2012 in Seiffen,
Germany. Seiffen is home to a
number of workshops that
specialize in hand-painted
wooden Christmas decorations
and carvings. (Joern
Haufe/Getty Images) #

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The Rockettes dancers
perform on opening
night of the 2012 Radio
City Christmas
Spectacular at Radio
City Music Hall in New
York on November
13, 2012. (Amanda
Schwab/Starpix/Associ
ated Press) #
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Claire Robertson from
Scottish Ballet poses
dressed as the Good Snow
Flake inside a lifesize snow
globe during a promotion
for their production of The
Nutcracker on November
20, 2012 in Glasgow. (Jeff J
Mitchell/Getty Images) #

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Shoppers walk through fake
snow on Oxford Street
during a traffic-free
Christmas shopping day in
central London on
November 24, 2012. (Olivia
Harris/Reuters) #

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Booths offer traditional
Thuringian handcrafts
and sweets and a big
Ferris wheel at the
Christmas Fair in
Erfurt, Germany on
November 28, 2012.
(Jens Meyer/Associated
Press) #

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The
Rockefeller
Center
Christmas
Tree is lit on
November
28, 2012 in
New York.
(Stan
Honda/AFP/
Getty
Images) #

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Shoppers walk on a snow-like carpet
as they visit a Christmas home show
on November 14, 2012 in London
with over 400 exhibitors at the Earls
Court exhibition centre. (Peter
Macdiarmid/Getty Images) #

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Hundreds of
people gather
in the rain to
attend the
opening of the
traditional
Christmas
Market on the
Roemerberg
square in
Frankfurt on
November 26,
2012. (Michael
Probst/Associat
ed Press) #

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Amidst a fanfare
ceremony with
fireworks, the
Christmas lights are
switched on at
Harrods
department store in
London on
November 1, 2012.
(Andrew
Matthews/PA/Asso
ciated Press) #

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Fireworks explode over the state
Capitol following the lighting of
the state Christmas tree on
November 16, 2012, in Lansing,
Mich. (Al Goldis/Associated
Press)

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People enjoy Christmas LED lights that
change colors in Tokyo's Shiodome on
November 26, 2012. (Kazuhiro
Nogi/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Gardener Sue
Dale inspects
poinsettia plants
prior to their
shipment from
the
Ravensworth
nursery near
Richmond,
England on
November 13,
2012. The
Nursery has
grown 18,000
plants. (Nigel
Roddis/Reuters)
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James Parker lifts a
Christmas tree at
Garrocher Tree Farm on
November 10, 2012 in
Creetown, Scotland.
The tree grower won
the title of Champion
Christmas Tree Grower
2012 at the 14th Annual
British Christmas Tree
Growers' Association
and will now deliver a
sixteen foot six inch tree
to take up residence
outside 10 Downing
Street. (Jeff J
Mitchell/Getty
Images) #

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Abraham Plaza (left) and Eduardo Rosales
drag a Christmas tree through a field at the
Omni Farm in West Jefferson, N.C. on
November 17, 2012. Crews at the farm will
harvest nearly 20,000 Christmas trees this
season. North Carolina has 1,500 Christmas
tree growers with nearly 50 million Fraser Fir
Christmas trees on over 35,000 acres. (Chris
Keane/Reuters) #

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Joe Balku, who
donated the
tree, drives a
stake into the
Rockefeller
Center Christmas
tree before
workers stood it
up on November
14, 2012 in New
York City. The
tree, an 80-year
old Norway
Spruce, weighs
approximately 10
tons and
measures 80 feet
tall. (John
Moore/Getty
Images) #

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Marching
band
members
attend the
2012
Hollywood
Christmas
Parade in Los
Angeles on
November 25,
2012. (Phil
McCarten/Re
uters) #

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A believer visits the Church of
the Nativity, the site revered
as the birthplace of Jesus, at
the beginning of the
Christmas season in the West
Bank city of Bethlehem on
November 24, 2012. (Marko
Djurica/Reuters) #

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A child looks
at a christmas-
themed shop
display on
November 28,
2012, in Paris.
(Joel
Saget/AFP/Ge
tty Images) #

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Carly Serepetti
checks out the
decorated
Christmas trees
on display in
Dearborn, Mic
h. on
November
25, 2012.
(David
Guralnick/Detr
oit
News/Associat
ed Press) #

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A woman poses for a
photograph at a Lego
Christmas attraction set up
outside a shopping mall in
Hong Kong on November
22, 2012. (Anthony
Wallace/AFP/Getty
Images) #

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A girl touches a
Christmas tree
made out of
over 2000 glass
baubles on the
main street of
Valletta, Malta
on November
28, 2012. (Darrin
Zammit
Lupi/Reuters) #

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An employee places a newly
painted glass Christmas and
New Year decoration in a
drying rack at the "Biryusinka"
toy factory in Russia's Siberian
city of Krasnoyarsk on
November 27, 2012. The
factory, founded in 1942,
produces decorative glass
spheres, which can be found
on Christmas trees all over
the country and in Moscow's
Kremlin in particular, during
the festive season. (Ilya
Naymushin/Reuters) #

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Artists join in a show at
Strasbourg's Christmas
market, one of the largest
and oldest French
Christmas markets, on
November 24, 2012 in
Strasbourg, France. With
over 300 market chalets,
Strasbourg attracts over
1.6 million visitors during
the Christmas season.
(Patrick Hertzog/AFP/Getty
Images) #

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A Japanese woman
dressed as a reindeer
poses for a picture
before the start of the
Santa Claus Winter
Games in Gallivare,
above the polar circle
in northern Sweden on
November 17, 2012.
Santas from all over
the world gather for
the games. (Jonathan
Nackstrand/AFP/Gett
y Images) #

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A postal employee dressed as Santa Claus
displays letters as he poses for the opening day
of the Santa Claus secretariat in Libourne post
office in France on November 6, 2012. Since
1962, they have operated as one of the postal
addresses for mail sent to Santa Claus written
by children from 160 countries. 1,400,000 letters
and 180,000 emails have received replies
during the 2011 Christmas holiday season.
(Regis Duvignau/Reuters) #

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A Christmas teddy bear is
wheeled on a trolley at the
Steiff stuffed toy factory on
November 23, 2012 in
Giengen an der Brenz,
Germany. Founded by
seamstress Margarethe
Steiff in 1880, Steiff has
been making stuffed teddy
bears since the early 20th
century ever since her
nephew Richard Steiff
exhibited the first
commercially produced
teddy bear in Europe in
1903. (Thomas
Niedermueller/Getty
Images) #

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Children run inside
a pinata store in
Managua on
November 12,
2012. The
government will
distribute 250,000
pinatas to families
across the country
as part of
Christmas
celebrations(Osw
aldo
Rivas/Reuters) #

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Chatsworth staff
member Rosie
Hodgkinson appears
as Cinderella in the
painted hall of
Chatsworth as the
stately home's
Christmas events get
underway on
November 6, 2012 in
Chatsworth, England.
(Christopher
Furlong/Getty
Images) #

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Spectators look up
at the stage at
Macy's Herald
Square Christmas
Window Unveiling
on November
15, 2012 in New
York. (John
Minchillo/AP Images
for Macy’s) #

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A chocolate
Santa Claus
waits in a
display
window of a
boutique on
November 11,
2012 in
Munich. (Peter
Kneffel//AFP/
Getty
Images) #

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Workers prepare a
tray of traditional
'frutas escarchada'
at the Peces
Mazapanes bakery
on November 28,
2012 in Consuegra,
Spain. The company
opens annually
during the three
months leading up
to Christmas, hiring
32 workers to
produce traditional
Spanish Christmas
cakes called
Mazapanes. (Denis
Doyle/Getty
Images) #

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Adam Briere
filled his cart
with gifts for his
children in a
department
store during
Black Friday at a
mall in Braintree,
Mass. on
November 23,
2012. (Aram
Boghosian for
The Boston
Globe)#

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A man kisses a
woman as they look
in the window of a
jewelery shop on
New Bond Street on
November 26, 2012
in London. Shoppers
spent an estimated
£100m in the
capital's West End
over the weekend as
Christmas
approaches. (Oli
Scarff/Getty
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