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By: gammafunction

gammafunction — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:15:11 +0000

1. a sears store
2.NORAD -north american air defense
3.Santa claus

In 1955, a Sears store, at the time known as Sears Roebuck and Company, placed Christmas advertising that included a phone number where children could reach Santa Claus. The only problem was that the phone number was printed incorrectly.

As excited children began dialing on Christmas Eve, they reached NORAD, instead of Santa…but people at NORAD understanding what the problem was…continue the tradition of ‘tracking Santa’

By: yaksha

yaksha — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:48:55 +0000

Answer: NORAD
[very big rip]
For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa. The tradition began on Christmas Eve in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. store advertisement for children to call Santa on a special “hotline” included an inadvertently misprinted telephone number. Instead of Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief’s operations “hotline.” The Director of Operations, Colonel Harry Shoup had his staff check radar data for any indication of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Indeed there were signs of Santa and children who called were given an update on Santa’s location. Thus, the tradition was born. To listen to Colonel Shoup talk about the experience, click here. In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States created a bi-national air defense command for the North American continent called the North American Air Defense Command, known as NORAD. NORAD inherited the tradition of tracking Santa.
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By: sidsen

sidsen — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:09:58 +0000

sleepy hence wont bother even paraphrasing – NORAD comes to public attention at Christmas, when it tracks Santa Claus on his journey around the world delivering toys for the world’s children for 51 years. This tradition started in 1955 when a local Sears store in Colorado misprinted the phone number and children thought they were calling Santa, but called CONAD (NORAD’s predecessor) instead.

By: nishansolo

nishansolo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:25:24 +0000

Sears, Roebuck and Co.
NORAD
Santa Clause

NORAD Tracks Santa website, and the whole tracking of the Santa thing, which all started thanks to the Sears ad 51 years ago.

By: prasanth

prasanth — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:57:13 +0000

In 1955, a Colorado Springs-based Sears store ran an advertisement encouraging children to call Santa Claus on a special telephone hotline. Due to a printing error, the phone number that was printed was the hotline for the Director of Operations at the Continental Air Defense (CONAD), the predecessor to the north american air defense command (NORAD) they instructed their staff to give Santa’s position to any child who called in. this tradition has been carried out till date

By: Shakeel

Shakeel — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:17:00 +0000

1)Sears Roebuck & Co
2)North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
3)Santa Claus

NORAD tracks the Santa Claus for kids out of a strange incident that occurred in 1955 thanks to Sears Roebuck & Co.More Details below:

“It was more than half a century ago, on Christmas Eve in 1955, that a Sears Roebuck & Co. store in Colorado Springs advertised a special hotline number for kids to call Santa. What the company didn’t know at the time was that they had inadvertently misprinted the telephone number. Instead of Santa’s workshop, the phone number put kids through to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization responsible for the aerospace defense of the U. S. and Canada. Worse, it wasn’t just any number at NORAD: it was the commander-in-chief’s operations hotline. In the spirit of the season, Colonel Harry Shoup, the director of operations at the time, had his staff check radar data for any indication of a sleigh making its way south from the North Pole. They found that indeed there were signs of Santa, and merrily gave the children who called an update on his location. Thus, a tradition was born, and NORAD has continued to help children track Santa on Christmas Eve ever since.

By: shashank

shashank — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:09:31 +0000

NORAD tracking Santa!

NORAD comes to public attention at Christmas, when it tracks Santa Claus on his journey around the world delivering toys for the world’s children for 51 years. This tradition started in 1955 when a local Sears store in Colorado misprinted the phone number and children thought they were calling Santa, but called CONAD (NORAD’s predecessor) instead.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:09:08 +0000

NORAD ( North American Aerospace Defence Command) ( Visual 2) comes to public attention at Christmas, when it tracks Santa Claus ( Visual 3) on his journey around the world delivering toys for the world’s children for 51 years. This tradition started in 1955 when a local Sears store ( Visual 1) in Colorado misprinted the phone number and children thought they were calling Santa, but called CONAD (NORAD’s predecessor) instead.

Regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:08:30 +0000

Regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee

By: Archana

Archana — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:01:37 +0000

pic 1 : Sears Roebuck & Co. department stores.
pic 2 : North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
pic 3 : Santa :)

connect : mission of tracking Santa
It started in 1955, on the Christmas eve when the Sears advertisement to call Santa on a ‘hotline’ had a misprinted phone number. Instead of Santa, the phone number put people through to NORAD commander-in-chief s operations ‘hotline’. NORAD used radar data for indications of Santa crossing the north pole and children who called where given updates on location of Santa.