Hundreds of U.S. Marines gather at Camp Commando in the Kuwait desert during a Christmas Eve visit by Santa Claus Dec. 24, 2002.
Santa Claus leads 26 Radio City Rockettes in wooden soldier costumes onto Sixth Avenue to salute the toy soldier Christmas marquee display at Radio City Music Hall, Oct. 29, 1997, in New York. The high-kicking dancers were celebrating their 65th season at the music hall.
A crowd of people in Santa Claus costumes gathers in front of a liquor store on Broadway in New York, Dec. 13, 2003. The group was participating in Santacon, a "not-for-profit, nonpolitical, non-religious demented Santa Claus convention."
A Christmas tree in downtown Moscow, Monday, Dec. 31, 2001, with the Historical Museum, left, and Kremlin St. Nicholas Tower, right, in the background. New Year's is the biggest holiday of the year in Russia, and is followed by the Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7. A statue of Ded Moroz, Grandfather Frost, the Russian Santa Claus, stands near the Christmas tree.
A Palestinian boy buries his head inside Christo Pynnonen's sack to get some candy in Manger Square in Bethlehem Dec. 22, 1998. Pynnonen, from Finland, spent the week dressed as Santa Claus, spreading Christmas cheer throughout the city as a guest of the Bethlehem municipality.
A boatful of Santas arrives in the Nyhavn Port during the 40th annual Santa Claus Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark July 22, 2003.
Frank Ricardo, dressed in a Santa Claus outfit, gives presents to Cumbu island residents traveling on a canoe along the Guama river in the Amazons near Belem, in the northern Brazilian state of Para, Dec. 23, 2003.
A fan dressed as Santa Claus cheers during the Buffalo Bills against the Miami Dolphins game at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y., Dec. 21, 2003.
A diver dressed as Santa Claus feeds fishes as part of the season's attraction at a local aquarium in Tokyo, Dec. 20, 2003.
On Dec. 22, 1994, President Clinton greeted Washington area schoolchildren as first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer look on in the State Dining Room of the White House.
Accompanied by a parachutist, right, a man dressed as Santa Claus lands on a sled attached to a parachute in the Swiss village of Saillon, Dec. 6, 2003.
Stuffed figures of Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus, shown Nov. 28, 2003, were hanging out for 11 months at the police department in Chesterfield Township, Mich. The police were trying to find their home.
Golf fans dressed as Santa Claus watch Tiger Woods on the 14th green on the opening day of the Presidents Cup 2003 Golf Tournament at the Fancourt Golf Estate, in George, South Africa, Nov. 20, 2003.
An exhausted Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (Yutaka Iwabu of Japan) rests during the final day of the Santa Claus Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 23, 2003.
Two-year-old Rachel Marita Hurley cries out for her mom, Rochelle Hurley, right, while Santa, also known as Cecil Howsen, tries to hold onto her Dec. 19, 1991 in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Carey Woodie, 3, watches Santa Claus rise up as her babysitter, Jennifer Douglas, plugs in the fan while decorating her yard for Christmas Dec. 1, 2004, in Fort Smith, Ariz.
Juanita, a 3-month-old mutt dressed as Santa Claus, is carried along a street in Porto, in northern Portugal, during a Santa Claus march Dec. 19, 2004. More than 5,000 people dressed as Father Christmas marched in the Portuguese city.
Two Peruvian traffic policewomen, dressed like Santa Claus and his helper, wave to people in front of the Government Palace in Lima's downtown Dec. 20, 2004. A group of men and women officers from Peru's "Phoenix" traffic police have taken to the streets this week dressed as "Papa Noel."
Two unidentified brothers cry as they are photographed with Santa Claus at Carlton Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, Dec. 20, 2004.