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2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

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. 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 ...

6. Holiday lighting technology - Wikipedia

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   A variety of sizes, shapes and colours can be seen among these lights. Holiday lighting technology has been subject to considerable development and variation since the replacement of candles by electric lights. [citation needed] While originally used during the Christmas holidays as Christmas lights, modern electric light arrays have become ...

7. National Christmas Tree (United States) - Wikipedia

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   The National Christmas Tree and Pathway of Peace trees consumed 7,000 watts over four weeks in 2010, at a cost of about $180. [238] (The National Christmas Tree alone consumed 2,000 watts in 2011.) [212] The lighting scheme used 60,000 LED lights and 265 spherical ornaments in 2013, [220] [221] while consuming just 5700 watts. [220]