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US-Canada military ‘tracks’ Santa Claus for 68th year

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North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) created a 3D, interactive website at www.noradsanta.org showing Santa and his reindeer on their imagined worldwide delivery route.
The joint US-Canadian military monitoring agency has continued its decades-long tradition of tracking Santa’s whereabouts, helping children around the globe find out when his reindeer-powered, present-filled sleigh is coming to town.
A 3D, interactive website at www.noradsanta.org showed Santa and his reindeer on their imagined worldwide delivery route, allowing users to click and learn more about the various cities along the way.
The Santa tracker presented by the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) dates to 1955, when a Colorado newspaper advertisement printed a phone number to connect children with Santa but mistakenly directed them to the hotline for the military nerve centre.

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