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  2. Department 56 - Wikipedia

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    Department 56 is a U.S. manufacturer of holiday collectibles, ornaments and giftware, known for its lit Christmas village collections and Snowbabies collection. It is owned by Enesco and based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. The brand's first products were issued in 1976, and various distinct villages and sub-series have been introduced since then.

  3. List of firsts at the Geographic North Pole - Wikipedia

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    First to parachute onto North Pole: Vitaly Volovich and Andrei Medvedev (Soviet Union) [7] on May 9, 1949, [8] [9] from Douglas C-47 Skytrain, registered CCCP H-369. [10] First vessel to reach North Pole: the submarine USS Nautilus. August 3, 1958; First to reach North Pole by surface travel (on Ski-Doo): Ralph Plaisted. April 19, 1968

  4. Operation Deep Freeze - Wikipedia

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    Operation Deep Freeze I (1955-56), Operation Deep Freeze II (1956-57), and Operation Deep Freeze III (57-58), prepared the United States for the start of the IGY on 1 July 1957. [9] The Mobile Construction Battalion for ODF I established Little America base in Kainan Bay and a base at McMurdo, and for ODF II built Byrd and the South Pole ...

  5. North Pole - Wikipedia

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    The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distinguish from the Magnetic North Pole .

  6. List of northernmost settlements - Wikipedia

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    There are no permanent civilian settlements north of 79° N, the furthest north (78.55° N) being Ny-Ålesund, a permanent settlement of about 30 (in the winter) to 130 (in the summer) people on the Norwegian island of Svalbard. Just below this settlement at 78.12° N is Svalbard's primary city, Longyearbyen, which has a population of over 2,000.

  7. Christmas village - Wikipedia

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    A Department 56 New England Series village display. A Christmas village (or putz) is a decorative, miniature-scale village often set up during the Christmas season. These villages are rooted in the elaborate Christmas traditions of the Moravian Church, a Protestant denomination. In the tradition of the Moravian Church, nativity scenes have been ...

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