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  2. Dreidel - Wikipedia

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    A dreidel, also dreidle or dreidl, [1] (/ ˈ d r eɪ d əl / DRAY-dəl; Yiddish: דרײדל, romanized: dreydl, plural: dreydlech; [a] Hebrew: סביבון, romanized: sevivon) is a four-sided spinning top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The dreidel is a Jewish variant on the teetotum, a gambling toy found in Europe and ...

  3. I Have a Little Dreidel - Wikipedia

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    "I Have a Little Dreidel" [1] (also known as "The Dreidel Song" [1] or "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel") is a children's Hanukkah song in the English-speaking world that also exists in a Yiddish version called "Ikh Bin A Kleyner Dreydl", (Yiddish: איך בין אַ קלײנער דרײדל Lit: I am a little dreidel German: Ich bin ein kleiner Dreidel).

  4. Traditional Mexican handcrafted toys - Wikipedia

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    The latter is notable because the boards feature both innocent and evil images such as devils, drunks, scorpions, hearts and flowers. [8] [11] One important category of toys is that of dolls. They have been made from various materials and some have become iconic. Oaxaca is famous for rag dogs dressed in local indigenous dress. [24]

  5. Hanukkah gelt - Wikipedia

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    Parents often give children chocolate gelt to play dreidel with. In terms of actual gelt (money), parents and grandparents or other relatives may give sums of money as an official Hanukkah gift. According to a survey done in 2006, 74 percent of parents in Israel give their children Chanukah gelt. [5]

  6. Hanukkah - Wikipedia

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    The dreidel, or sevivon in Hebrew, is a four-sided spinning top that children play with during Hanukkah. Each side is imprinted with a Hebrew letter which is an abbreviation for the Hebrew words נס גדול היה שם ( N es G adol H aya S ham , "A great miracle happened there"), referring to the miracle of the oil that took place in the ...

  7. Talk:Dreidel - Wikipedia

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  8. Hand-colouring of photographs - Wikipedia

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    Parallel efforts to produce coloured photographic images affected the popularity of hand-colouring. In 1842 Daniel Davis Jr. patented a method for colouring daguerreotypes through electroplating, [4] and his work was refined by Warren Thompson the following year. The results of the work of Davis and Thompson were only partially successful in ...

  9. Dirndl - Wikipedia

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    German pronunciation: is a diminutive of German pronunciation:, originally meaning "young woman". [a] [7] In Bavaria and Austria, Dirndl can mean a young woman, a girlfriend or the dress.