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  2. Christmas ornament - Wikipedia

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    Christmas tree lights and Christmas bulb. 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.

  3. Christmas tree - Wikipedia

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    Christmas tree decorated with lights, stars, and glass balls Glade jul by Viggo Johansen (1891) Typical North American family decorating Christmas tree (c. 1970s). A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.

  4. 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 ...

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  6. Yule log (cake) - Wikipedia

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    Yule log (cake) A Yule log or bûche de Noël ( French pronunciation: [byʃ də nɔɛl]) is a traditional Christmas cake, often served as a dessert near Christmas, especially in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Lebanon, Switzerland, Vietnam, [1] and Quebec, Canada. Variants are also served in the United States, United Kingdom, Cambodia, Scandinavia ...

  7. Couroupita guianensis - Wikipedia

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    Couroupita guianensis, known by a variety of common names including cannonball tree, is a deciduous tree in the flowering plant family Lecythidaceae.It is native to the tropical forests of Central and South America, and it is cultivated in many other tropical areas throughout the world because of its fragrant flowers and large fruits, which are brownish grey.

  8. Witch ball - Wikipedia

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    A witch would draw a picture of the intended victim, then throw the ball at the part of the victim they wished to injure. Christmas ornament. Patrick Leigh-Fermor mentions the daughters of a gasthof (guest house) owner hanging witch balls on the Christmas tree, Boppard, Germany, 1933, which suggests a link to modern baubles. See also

  9. Christmas lights - Wikipedia

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    Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights, festive lights or string lights) are lights often used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide. The custom goes back to when Christmas trees were decorated with candles, which symbolized Christ being the light of ...

  10. Abies balsamea - Wikipedia

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    Balsam fir is a small to medium-size evergreen tree typically 14–20 metres (46–66 ft) tall, occasionally reaching a height of 27 metres (89 ft). The narrow conic crown consists of dense, dark-green leaves. The bark on young trees is smooth, grey, and with resin blisters (which tend to spray when ruptured), becoming rough and fissured or ...

  11. Platanus - Wikipedia

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    Platanus ( / ˈplætənəs / PLAT-ən-əss [1]) is a genus consisting of a small number of tree species native to the Northern Hemisphere. They are the sole living members of the family Platanaceae . All mature members of Platanus are tall, reaching 30–50 m (98–164 ft) in height.