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  2. How Nutcrackers Became a Classic Symbol of Christmas

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    Nutcracker dolls can trace their little wooden development back to the Ore Mountains of Germany in the late 17th century. Most often depicted as toy soldiers, they became gifts and symbols of good ...

  3. Nutcracker doll - Wikipedia

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    Nutcracker dolls, also known as Christmas nutcrackers, are decorative nutcracker figurines most commonly made to resemble a toy soldier. In German tradition, the dolls are symbols of good luck, frightening away malevolent spirits.

  4. Ore Mountain folk art - Wikipedia

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    Ore Mountain Toy Museum in Seiffen Exhibits in the Nutcracker Museum in Neuhausen. Ore Mountain folk art (German: Erzgebirgische Volkskunst) is a well-known form of highly artistic wood carving from East Germany. It encompasses the diverse forms of expression of the creative work beyond the classical or the modern arts, and in particular the ...

  5. Nutcracker - Wikipedia

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    The carving of nutcrackers—as well as of religious figures and of cribs—developed as a cottage industry in forested rural areas of Germany. The most famous nutcracker carvings come from Sonneberg in Thuringia (also a center of dollmaking) and Seiffen , as part of the industry of wooden toymaking in the Ore Mountains .

  6. German bratwurst booyah, giant nutcrackers and Krampus ... - AOL

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    More than 40,000 people visited On Broadway Inc.'s German-style holiday street market last year. It returns Friday with all kinds of festive new fun.

  7. List of productions of The Nutcracker - Wikipedia

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    Choreography: Alexander Gorsky (after Petipa) Company: Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow Premiere: 1919 Russian choreographer Alexander Gorsky, who staged a production of The Nutcracker in Moscow in 1919, is credited with the idea of combining Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy's roles (i.e. giving the Fairy's dances to Clara), eliminating the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavalier, giving the Cavalier's dances to the ...

  8. There's a Magical German Holiday Market in the Midwest US

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    From nutcrackers and cuckoo clocks to handcrafted ornaments and alpaca wool socks, the items we encounter could have been pulled straight from a Bavarian square.

  9. Henry Quackenbush - Wikipedia

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    Henry Marcus Quackenbush (April 27, 1847 – September 8, 1933), commonly called "H.M.", was an American inventor and industrialist who founded the H.M. Quackenbush Company [1] in Herkimer, New York. His company was widely known for its air rifles and for the invention of the metal, spring-jointed nutcracker. [2]

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