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2. Nutcracker doll - Wikipedia

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   An average handcrafted nutcracker doll is made out of about 60 separate pieces. [2] Nutcracker dolls traditionally resemble toy soldiers, and are often painted in bright colors. [1] Different designs proliferated early; by the early 19th century there were ones dressed as miners, policemen, royalty or soldiers from different armies. [2]

3. How Nutcrackers Became a Classic Symbol of Christmas

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   Nutcracker dolls can trace their little wooden development back to the Ore Mountains of Germany in the late 17th century. Most often depicted as toy soldiers, they became gifts and symbols of good ...

4. Bearskin - Wikipedia

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   Soldiers of the British Coldstream Guard and Italian 1st Regiment "Granatieri di Sardegna" in full dress uniform wearing bearskins. A bearskin is a tall fur cap derived from mitre caps worn by grenadier units in the 17th and 18th centuries. Initially worn by only grenadiers, bearskins were later used by several other military units in the 19th ...

5. Nutcracker - Wikipedia

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   Decorative nutcrackers became popular in the United States after the Second World War, following the first US production of The Nutcracker ballet in 1940 and the exposure of US soldiers to the dolls during the war. [14] In the United States, few of the decorative nutcrackers are now functional, though expensive working designs are still ...

6. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King - Wikipedia

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   Original publication in 1816 in Berlin in the collection Kinder-Märchen, Children's Stories, by In der Realschulbuchhandlung. "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a novella–fairy tale written in 1816 by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil ...

7. Shako - Wikipedia

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   In the US Army, a lower felt shako superseded the top hat style, bearskin crest surmounted "round hat" in 1810. [7] The "Belgic" shako was a black felt shako with a raised front introduced in the Portuguese Marines in 1797 and then in the Portuguese Army in 1806, as the barretina. It was later adopted by the British Army, officially replacing ...