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2. Hex sign - Wikipedia

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   Hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, related to fraktur, found in the Fancy Dutch tradition in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. [1] Barn paintings, usually in the form of "stars in circles", began to appear on the landscape in the early 19th century and became widespread decades later when commercial ready-mixed paint became readily ...

3. Barnstar - Wikipedia

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   Some hex signs incorporate star shapes, while others may take the form of a rosette or contain pictures of birds and other animals. [7] The term barnstar has been applied to star-shaped anchor plates that are used for structural reinforcement, particularly on masonry buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries.

4. Distelfink - Wikipedia

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   It frequently appears in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art. [2] It represents happiness and good fortune and the Pennsylvania German people, and is a common theme in hex signs and in fraktur. The word distelfink (literally 'thistle-finch') is (besides Stieglitz) the German name for the European goldfinch. [3]

5. Fancy Dutch - Wikipedia

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   Many popularly associated characteristics of Pennsylvania Dutch culture, including spielwerk, hex signs, [5] and other aspects of Pennsylvania Dutch art, music, and folklore, are derived from the Fancy Dutch.

6. Fraktur (folk art) - Wikipedia

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   Fraktur is a highly artistic and elaborate illuminated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, named after the Fraktur script associated with it. Place of creation also includes Alsace, Switzerland, and Rhineland which are also contributed to the folk art. [1] Most Fraktur were created between 1740 and 1860. [2]

7. Keira Knightley Reveals the Unusual Reason She Doesn ... - AOL

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   Keira Knightley’s number one reason for having no more kids isn’t the pain of childbirth or the endless nights of disrupted sleep.. On Monday, Dec. 9. the actress, 39, gushed about her two ...