GIFT OF THE "MAGI"
This basketball player went from being the only rookie to win the NBA Finals MVP Award to co-owning the very team he played for that year.
Magic Johnson
Historians and religious scholars unanimously agree that no one has contributed more to the holiday of Christmas than this famous Jew.
Jesus Christ
This fictional miser once told Kermit the Frog to prepare eviction notices for Christmas Day delivery.
Ebenezer Scrooge
In a typical season of the TV show Psych, Sean and Gus might solve more than 400% of all the murders that take place in this city, based on its actual crime statistics.
Santa Barbara
It's a Pixar movie containing green aliens whose reverence of a claw is as religious as any Christmas observance.
Toy Story
X-rays, CAT scans, and Ultrasounds are all examples of this type of study.
Imaging
The song "White Christmas" was famously sung by this Jewish immigrant, who came to the United States from Russia, not Germany.
Irving Berlin
Imagining a nonexistent "War on Christmas," conservative pundits declared a war of their own, attempting to shoo this alliterative seasonal greeting out of the lexicon.
Happy Holidays
Sometimes called "devil winds," this weather phenomenon can fan dangerous wildfires and carry illness-inducing spores, but its more mythical behavior-altering powers are what inspired a song in the TV show "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend."
Santa Ana winds
Carcinisation is sometimes defined as "one of nature's many attempts to" do this. (It's happened at least five times.)
"evolve a crab."
In the Super Smash Brothers game series, this Pokemon is completely useless. Like, worse than Chansey.
Magikarp
With over 5.3 million copies sold, the 1967 Christmas album "A Christmas Album" is one of the best-selling holiday anthologies in musical history, put out by this Jewish star.
Barbara Streisand
On Christmas Eve, 2020, over 7,000 residents were shooed from their homes 50 miles north of San Diego by this kind of disaster.
Wildfire
In 1836, Mexican troops under the command of this man lay siege to the Alamo in what would become the most legendary battle of the Texas Revolution.
Santa Anna (General Antonio López de Santa Anna)
In the Futurama episode "A Tale of Two Santas," clawed physician John Zoidberg dresses up as this self-proclaimed friend of Santa Claus.
Jesus
The square root of negative two is an example of this kind of number.
Imaginary
In the movie Elf, Santa Claus himself was played by this Jewish actor, who appeared along fellow Chosen Actors James Caan and Zooey Deschanel.
Ed Asner
In the Hungnam evacuation, also known as the Miracle of Christmas, United Nations forces successfully evacuated over 86,000 refugees from this country in an operation that was completed on Dec 24th, 1950.
North Korea
You can still celebrate Christmas at the oldest church in the continental United States, built by Spanish Roman Catholics in this city.
Santa Fe
This homage to the Philadelphia Flyers' team captain is an apt name for Gritty's pet hermit crab.
Claw'd
This series of French military fortifications was thought to be impenetrable to a frontal attack, but in World War II, the Germans simply went around it.
Maginot Line
Jewish songwriter Johnny Marks specialized in Christmas songs, penning A Holly Jolly Christmas, Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, and this chart-topping 1949 hit based on a Robert Lewis May story from 10 years prior.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The celebration of Christmas was outlawed in this North American city for a period of 12 years, though that was before the Bill of Rights was a thing.
Boston
This third-largest city in Los Angeles County went from suburb to "boomburb," and arrived in the zeitgeist as the setting for an adorable story about zombies.
Santa Clarita
A humorous Super Bowl commercial for Monster.com featured children with unusual aspirations, including one who wanted to "claw [his] way into" this.
Middle management