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  2. List of string figures - Wikipedia

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    "Opening A", seen from below "Two Diamonds" Heraklas' "Plinthios Brokhos" made in a doubled cord.Resembles "A Hole in the Tree" with different crossings. "Cradle", the first (and opening) position of Cat's cradle "Soldier's Bed" from Cat's cradle "Candles" from Cat's cradle "Diamonds" from Cat's cradle "Cat's Eye" from Cat's cradle "Fish in a Dish" from Cat's cradle "Grandfather Clock" from ...

  3. String figure - Wikipedia

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    String figures may also involve the use of the mouth, wrist, and feet. They may consist of singular images or be created and altered as a game, known as a string game, or as part of a story involving various figures made in sequence (string story). String figures have also been used for divination, such as to predict the sex of an unborn child. [1]

  4. Howdy Doody - Wikipedia

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    Most of the puppet characters, including Phineas T. Bluster, the cranky mayor and chief killjoy of Doodyville, Dilly Dally, a foolish carpenter who was usually the butt of Bluster's plots, Flub-a-dub, a beast with a duck's head, cat's whiskers, and the parts of several other animals, Heidi Doody, Howdy's sister, and Howdy himself, of course ...

  5. Peter Evans (restaurateur) - Wikipedia

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    After The Cat's Whisker was closed down by the police due to overcrowding, Peter Evans formed a partnership with accountant Tom Beale and butcher Reg Eastwood. [12] Together, they established the first Angus Steak Houses at 1 Kingly Street, Soho , which was previously the location of The Cat's Whisker.

  6. Chinese jump rope - Wikipedia

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    Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game. German-speaking children call Chinese jump rope gummitwist and British children call it elastics. The game is typically ...

  7. Crystal radio - Wikipedia

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    The device at top is the radio's cat's whisker detector. A second pair of earphone jacks is provided. 1970s-era Arrow crystal radio marketed to children. The earphone is on left. The antenna wire, right, has a clip to attach to metal objects such as a bedspring, which serve as an additional antenna to improve reception.

  8. Wooly Willy - Wikipedia

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    The original Wooly Willy was manufactured by the Smethport Specialty Company in 1955. Wooly Willy is a toy in which metal filings are moved about with a magnetic wand to add features to a cartoon face. [1]

  9. Hand jive - Wikipedia

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    In 1957, when filmmaker Ken Russell was a freelance photographer, he recorded the teenagers of Soho, London, hand-jiving in the basement of The Cat's Whisker coffee bar, where the hand-jive had been invented by Leon Bell of Leon Bell and the Bell Cats. [1]