A man dressed as a pig to mark 2007 as the Year of the Pig in Chinese astrology is seen in the centre of Kiev, Ukraine.

In my opinion, the best Johnny Depp website out there on the Internets:

depp.ca

In French, Santa Claus, “Le Pere Noel“. Pronounced (le pear – noel). That’s a pretty easy one and a nice way to sneak in an extra (non-dirty French word of the week 😉

Now here’s for the Turkish part.

Santa Claus is a variation of a Dutch folk tale based on the historical figure Saint Nicholas, a bishop from Myra in Asia Minor (the greater part of modern-day Turkey), who used his whole inheritance to assist the needy, the sick, and the suffering. His charity became legend when a man lost his fortune and found himself incapable of supporting his three daughters, who would not be able to find husbands as they lacked dowries. This man was going to give them over to a life of prostitution; however, St Nicholas provided them with gold, enabling them to retain their virginal virtues and marry.

This is probably one of the most remote connections to modern day Turkey that could possibly be made. Ask any Turkish person though and Santa was smoking shisha, playing? backgammon, and eating kebabs

One of the few (perhaps only) Christmas trees with every single Star Trek ornament released by Hallmark annually. Who knew Kirk celebrated? I thought he was Jewish, Spock atheist, and Sulu Buddhist. And shouldn’t Uhura be celebrating Kwanzaa?

Actually the entire Federation was a Marxist utopia according to some, so none of them should have followed any religion.

However, as we can see here, these satellite photos captured various alien cultures orbiting the tree.

As you can see the Klingons, Borg, and Cardassians exchanging gifts…
The rest of the pictures, er evidence, is/are here?:mrgreen:

Literally.

Heard these guys a few times on Sirius satellite radio. A Cuban band (I believe) they do salsa covers of popular singles like Coldplay’s Clocks, U2’s I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, and others like it.

A very interesting mix, you can listen to all of the songs (for free woot!) by clicking right here?:mrgreen: