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2. 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 geometric ...

3. Dale Chihuly - Wikipedia

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   Dale Patrick Chihuly was born on September 20, 1941, in Tacoma, Washington. [3] His parents were George and Viola Chihuly; his paternal grandfather was born in Slovakia. [3] In 1957, his older brother and only sibling George died in a Navy aviation training accident in Pensacola, Florida. [4] In 1958, Chihuly's father died of a heart attack at ...

4. Witch ball - Wikipedia

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   A witch ball with a base or stand. Witch balls sometimes measure as large as seven inches (18 cm) in diameter. The witch ball is traditionally, but not always, green or blue in colour and made from glass (others, however, are made of wood, grass, or twigs instead of glass). Some are decorated in swirls and brilliant stripes of various colours.

5. Yard globe - Wikipedia

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   A yard globe (also known as a garden globe, gazing ball or chrome ball) is a mirrored sphere displayed as a lawn ornament, typically atop a conical ceramic or wrought iron stand. Sizes ranges from 1 in (25 mm) up to 10 m (33 ft) in diameter, with the most popular gazing ball being 12 in (300 mm). [1][2][3][4][5] Gazing balls were originally ...

6. Crystal ball - Wikipedia

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   Optically, a crystal ball is a ball lens. For typical materials such as quartz and glass, it forms an image of distant objects slightly beyond the surface of the sphere, on the opposite side. Unlike conventional lenses, the image-forming properties are omnidirectional (independent of the direction being imaged) This omnidirectional focusing can ...

7. History of glass - Wikipedia

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   Bohemian glass, or Bohemia crystal, is a decorative glass produced in regions of Bohemia and Silesia, now in the current state of the Czech Republic, since the 13th century. [47] Oldest archaeology excavations of glass-making sites date to around 1250 and are located in the Lusatian Mountains of Northern Bohemia.