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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The poem crystallizes a number of ideas about St. Nicholas first found in Washington Irving's ''Knickerbocker History of New York''.
* [[Anonymous Author]]: The poem was
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]:
** "On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donner and Blitzen!" Only it isn't--the original poem retained the ''Dutch'' names ''Donder'' and ''Blixen'', as was suitable to the old Dutch settlers of New York who introduced <s>Sinterklaas</s> Santa Claus to America. Later re-printings [[Ret Conned]] the names into their more familiar German forms.
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