St. Nicholas, whose feast day is celebrated on Dec. 6, is well known as possibly the real-life inspiration for the beloved Christmas character of Santa Claus. Not a lot is known about the historical ...

The Broadcom tale of the two Henrys is a study in contrasts: one man deliberate and reserved, the other anything but. Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli founded the Irvine chip maker in 1991 and ...

In 1953, church personnel in Bari, Italy, opened up the tomb of St. Nicholas in order to start the process of mitigating water damage to the crypt over nearly a millennium. Once restoration was ...

It is hard to imagine the cheery, plump version of Santa Claus emerged from Saint Nicholas, the 4th century Bishop of Myra who, as a nursing infant, fasted on holy days and whose bones were stolen ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The legends surrounding jolly old St. Nicholas — celebrated annually on Dec. 6 — go way beyond delivering candy and toys to children. NEW YORK (AP) — The white-bearded Christian saint ...

The people of Bari, a city in southern Italy, have a deep devotion to St. Nicholas, their patron saint and beloved protector. “How can you not love St. Nicholas? And how can you not feel loved by St.

If you celebrate Christmas, you may have found some presents under the tree, and you may believe those mysterious presents came from a jolly old man in a red suit. He has a lot of names, including ...

Jeff Bezos is now the richest person in history. How does the fortune of the last Tsar compare to the owner of Amazon.com? Since the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas II, he can also be named ...

"They are your favorite dancers' favorite dancers." That's what Nicole Nicholas, granddaughter of Black dance legends, the Nicholas Brothers, has to say about the dynamic duo of Fayard and Harold ...

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 60 Minutes looks back at Bob Simon's 2014 profile of Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children from the Nazis. The transcript of the story is ...

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