Today is Monday, December 29, 2015. We learn about tracking Santa Claus and about getting un-divorced.
Tracking Santa Claus
On Christmas Eve, millions of children are tracking Santa Claus.
They use the NORAD Santa Tracker.
It all began with a typo.
In 1955, Sears Roebuck & Co. ran an advertisement in a Colorado Springs-area newspaper with a phone number that children could call to speak with Santa. But rather than being a direct line to the North Pole, the misprinted number instead connected to a telephone on the desk of the Continental Air Defense Command’s director of operations, Col. Harry Shoup.
Shoup’s children recall how it all happened with Storycorps.
Shoup started to get calls and eventually decided to play along. He staffed the line and called a local radio station. He told the radio station that he had seen an unidentified flying object, one that looked like a sleigh.
Now, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) tracks Santa every year. Staff members, family members, and friends volunteer their time to respond to letters, emails, calls, and they track Santa’s flight each Christmas.
Reconcilable Differences
If your irreconcilable differences ever become reconcilable, do not plan on undoing your divorce in New Hampshire.
The state’s Supreme Court this month upheld a lower court ruling refusing to vacate a New Castle couple’s 2014 divorce after 24 years of marriage. Terrie Harmon and her ex-husband, Thomas McCarron, argued on appeal that their divorce decree was erroneous because they got back together. But the justices, in a unanimous ruling issued December 2, said the law specifically allows them to grant divorces, not undo them.
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