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2. Fred Thayer - Wikipedia

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   In the winter of 1876, Thayer went to a local tinsmith to construct a "bird cage" like mask with padding to the chin and forehead. [1] Practice sessions between Tyng and Thayer proved the mask successful and on April 12, 1877, the first professional baseball game was played with a catcher's mask.

3. Birdcage - Wikipedia

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   A birdcage (or bird cage) is a cage designed to house birds as pets. Antique (or antique-style) birdcages are often popular as collectors' items or as household decor but most are not suitable for housing live birds, being too small, improper shape, using unsafe materials or construction. [ 1 ]

4. Bird trapping - Wikipedia

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   Bird trapping techniques to capture wild birds include a wide range of techniques that have their origins in the hunting of birds for food. While hunting for food does not require birds to be caught alive, some trapping techniques capture birds without harming them and are of use in ornithology research.

5. Thaumatrope - Wikipedia

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   A 2012 paper [1] argues that a prehistoric bone disk found in the Laugerie-Basse rockshelter is a thaumatrope, designed to be spun using leather thongs threaded through the central perforation. The invention of the thaumatrope is usually credited to British physician John Ayrton Paris .

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7. Crickets as pets - Wikipedia

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   Their use declined when the Chinese concentrated on keeping crickets. Small cages are still used for transporting crickets. Some are curved to follow the shape of a human body; crickets need warmth and prefer to be kept close to the body. The cage is placed in a tao, a kind of protective silk bag, and is ideally carried in the pocket of a shirt ...