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The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as caribou in North America, is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, Subarctic, tundra, boreal and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. This includes both sedentary and migratory populations.
While overall widespread and numerous, some of its subspecies are rare and at least one has already become extinct.
Reindeer vary considerably in colour and size. In most populations, both sexes grow antlers annually, but females lack antlers in a few. Antlers are typically larger on males.
Hunting of wild reindeer and herding of semi-domesticated reindeer (for meat, hides, antlers, milk and transportation) are important to several Arctic and Subarctic peoples. In parts of Sápmi, reindeer pull pulks. In Christmas folklore, Santa Claus's flying reindeer are well known for pulling his sleigh.
The name Rangifer, which Carl Linnaeus chose for the reindeer genus, was used by Albertus Magnus in his De animalibus, fol. Liber 22, Cap. 268: "Dicitur Rangyfer quasi ramifer". This word may go back to a Saami word raingo. For the origin of the word tarandus, which Linnaeus chose as the specific epithet, he made reference to Ulisse Aldrovandi's Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia fol. 859–863, Cap. 30: De Tarando (1621). However, Aldrovandi – and before him Konrad Gesner – thought that rangifer and tarandus were two separate animals. In any case, the tarandos name goes back to Aristotle and Theophrastus – see 'In history' below.
Actors: Veikko Honkanen (actor), Jeremy Burdek (producer), Gilles Waterkeyn (producer), Nadia Khamlichi (producer), Mikael Wahlforss (writer), Pierre Philippe Hendrickx (miscellaneous crew), Adrian Politowski (producer), Mikael Wahlforss (producer), Pierre Drouot (miscellaneous crew), Rauno Ahonen (actor), Maija-Liisa Peuhu (actress), Lieven Vanhove (miscellaneous crew), Lieven Vanhove (miscellaneous crew), Jan Goossen (producer), Kiti Kokkonen (actress),
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy,Actors: Mikael Wahlforss (producer), Mikael Wahlforss (writer), Rauno Ahonen (actor), Kiti Kokkonen (actress), Rinna Paatso (actress), Santtu Karvonen (actor), Veeti Kallio (actor), Paula Vesala (actress), Juhani Rajalin (actor), Susa Saukko (actress), Jon Jon Geitel (actor), Niko Kivelä (actor), Henni-Liisa Stam (actress), Antti Jaakola (actor), Thomas Wipf (writer),
Genres: Animation,Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle (actor), Pierre-François Martin-Laval (actor), Max Cullen (actor), Benoît Allemane (actor), Lorànt Deutsch (actor), Magda Szubanski (actress), Julie Gayet (actress), Line Renaud (actress), Nerida Tyson-Chew (composer), Bruno Salomone (actor), Christian Davin (producer), Didier Brice (actor), Shane Jacobson (actor), Avrill Stark (producer), Avrill Stark (producer),
Plot: Santa doesn't want to retire, but rules are rules and he must train someone to replace him. The lucky winner, to be chosen from among millions of children, must be named Nicholas, be an orphan and have a pure heart. On the other side of the planet, there is a little boy who is a perfect match, but his lack of self-confidence and fear of heights make him a poor contestant. Will Santa agree to step down, and help his apprentice take his place?
Keywords: christmasActors: Michelle Trachtenberg (actress), Mark Cuban (producer), Jerry Wasserman (actor), Michael Adamthwaite (actor), Bob Clark (producer), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (actress), Crystal Lowe (actress), Peter New (actor), Aaron Pearl (actor), Andrea Martin (actress), Juan Riedinger (actor), Karin Konoval (actress), Lacey Chabert (actress), Robert Milicevic (miscellaneous crew), Torrence Hall (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: In the 70's, the boy Billy is born with yellow skin due to a liver disease and his dysfunctional mother rejects him. Later he witnesses his mother and her lover killing his beloved father and burying him in the basement of their house, and he is locked in the attic alone along his childhood. When he is a teenager, he is sexually abused by his mother and she has a baby girl called Agnes. During Christmas, the deranged Billy escapes from his imprisonment, kills his mother and stepfather and blinds one eye of Agnes. He is declared insane and his sister is sent to an orphanage. In the present days, Billy escapes from the Clark Sanatorium to spend Christmas with his family. Meanwhile, his former house is the Delta Alpha Kappa sorority house in the campus of the Clement University, and the housemother and the sisters Kelli Presley, Dana, Lauren Hannon, Megan, Heather, Megan Helms, Melissa and Eve Agnew are preparing the house for Christmas party in a stormy night while Clair Crosby is in her room writing a card to bury the hatchet with her sister. When three sisters vanish, the others receive weird phone calls and believe something is wrong, but they find that they are trapped in the location.
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Genres: Animation, Family,Actors: Fred Sadoff (director), Clive Marshall (actor), Jonathan Collins (actor), Penny Whittam (actress),
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Genres: Family,Reindeer, reindeer, reindeer
I caught one of your horns
And even if it rains here
It's much worse in the north
Reindeer, reindeer, reindeer
I caught one of your horns
And even if it rains here
It's much worse in the north
And you move like shadows
In the dark
And you glitter and you glimmer
And you bark
Moon's light the feathers
The sleigh this year is heavier
I thought we'd reached Warzava
But we are stuck in Vasa
And Santa here is faster
This house must be the last now
And we follow mister Santa
To the end
Reindeer, reindeer, reindeer
Your formate friend
Humble heavy loaded
And soon it's time again
And you move like shadows
In the dark
And you glitter and you glimmer
And you bark
Moon's light the feathers
The sleigh this year is heavier
I thought we'd reached Warzava
But we are stuck in Vasa
And Santa here is faster
This house must be the last now
And we follow mister Santa
To the end
Moon's light the feathers
The sleigh this year is heavier
I thought we'd reached Warzava
But we are stuck in Vasa
And Santa here is faster
This house must be the last now
And we follow mister Santa
To the end
And we follow mister Santa
To the end
And we follow mister Santa
To the end
And we follow mister Santa
To the end
And we follow mister Santa
To the end
Moon's light the feathers
The sleigh this year is heavier
I thought we'd reached Warzava
But we are stuck in Vasa
And Santa here is faster
This house must be the last now
And we follow mister Santa