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  2. The Pushcart War - Wikipedia

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    Beset by truck-related "accidental" incidents, damaged carts, and injured fellows, the pushcart peddlers realize they need to fight back. Their response is the Pea-Shooter Campaign, which aims to flatten truck tires using pea shooters with pins in the peas so that everyone can see the trucks are the cause of the traffic problems.

  3. Barbie Dreamhouse - Wikipedia

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    The house was modular, meaning that children could deconstruct the rooms and rearrange them. [1] In 1990, the Dreamhouse was a two story McMansion with a glittery pink exterior. By 2008, the house remained pink but returned to the three-story townhouse shape that was sold in 1974. It featured a garage for Barbie's convertible. [1]

  4. Petronella Oortman - Wikipedia

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    By way of comparison, Petronella de la Court's dollhouse, for which 1,600 pieces of furniture and paintings and 28 fine dolls were commissioned, was sold in 1744 for 1,200 guilders. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Already celebrated in the 18th century, Oortman's dollhouse was bought by the state in 1821 and purchased by the Rijksmuseum in 1875. [ 5 ]

  5. Paper model - Wikipedia

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    Printable sheet to make a metro train of the Valencia Metro (Venezuela). This may be considered a broad category that contains origami and card modeling. Origami is the process of making a paper model by folding a single piece of paper without using glue or cutting while the variation kirigami does.

  6. Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House - Wikipedia

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    Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House is a 1984 stop motion animated television series produced by Smallfilms, directed and narrated by Oliver Postgate.It is based on Rumer Godden's The Dolls' House, originally published in 1947, and focuses on the toys in a Victorian dolls' house belonging to sisters Emily and Charlotte Dane.

  7. Peashooter (toy) - Wikipedia

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    The pinturas de castas (casta paintings) are a rare glimpse into the daily life of ordinary people in 18th century colonial Mexico. They reveal how different races and classes interacted, dressed, worked, and played. Some of these paintings show the toys that children used, including a depiction of a boy with a peashooter and visible projectile ...

  8. The Haunted Dolls' House - Wikipedia

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    It is a doll house in Strawberry Hill Gothic, six feet long, with many dolls: a middle-aged couple, two children, an old man in bed, and various servants. Dillet retires to bed, but is suddenly woken up by the sound of a bell tolling one o'clock and notices the doll's house, now looking more like a real house in a real landscape, coming to life.

  9. Tucker XP-57 - Wikipedia

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    Tucker XP-57 was the designation of a lightweight fighter which was proposed to the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) in 1940. Nicknamed the "Peashooter", it was developed by the Tucker Aviation Corporation under Preston Tucker, who later became famous for the Tucker '48 Sedan.