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2. Mercury glass - Wikipedia

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   Mercury glass. Mercury glass (or silvered glass) is glass that was blown double walled, then silvered between the layers with a liquid silvering solution, and sealed. Although mercury was originally used to provide the reflective coating for mirrors, elemental mercury was never used to create tableware. Silvered glass was free-blown, then ...

3. Shiny Brite - Wikipedia

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   The Shiny Brite company produced the most popular Christmas tree ornaments in the United States throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In 1937, Max Eckardt established Shiny Brite ornaments, working with the Corning Glass company to mass-produce glass Christmas ornaments. Eckardt had been importing hand- blown glass balls from Germany since around ...

4. Christmas ornament - Wikipedia

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   Christmas ornaments, baubles, globes, "Christmas bulbs", or "Christmas bubbles" are decoration items, usually to decorate Christmas trees. These decorations may be woven, blown ( glass or plastic ), molded ( ceramic or metal ), carved from wood or expanded polystyrene, or made by other techniques. Ornaments are available in a variety of ...

5. National Christmas Tree (United States) - Wikipedia

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   It was the second-highest national Christmas tree in the history of the event, and it required 700 hand-colored light bulbs, 100 hand-crafted glass stars and several mercury-vapor floodlights to decorate and illuminate. [57] More than 8,000 people attended the 1939 ceremony. [58]

6. Mercury's Retrograde This Christmas—Here's How to ... - AOL

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   Mercury—planet of communication, transportation, and all things technical, you know things that are very important during the biggest travel and gift-giving time of the year—goes retrograde on ...

7. Pickle Ornaments on a Christmas Tree Hold Special Meaning ...

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   There are a few variations of the story, but legend goes that the first child to find the Christmas pickle ornament receives the first present, an extra present, or the job of handing out the ...