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2. Christopher Radko - Wikipedia

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   Designer, businessman. Known for. Founding the eponymous Christmas ornaments brand. Christopher Radko is an American businessman and designer known for starting the eponymous Christmas ornaments business. [1] [2] He is called the "Czar of the Christmas Present" by The New York Times and the "Ornament King'' by the Chicago Tribune. [1] [3] [4]

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. Acanthus (ornament) - Wikipedia

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   In architecture, an ornament may be carved into stone or wood to resemble leaves from the Mediterranean species of the Acanthus genus of plants, which have deeply cut leaves with some similarity to those of the thistle and poppy. Both Acanthus mollis and the still more deeply cut Acanthus spinosus have been claimed as the main model, and ...

5. Make Your Own Kind of Music - Wikipedia

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   The first recording of "Make Your Own Kind of Music" was on a 1968 single by the New York City-based trio the Will-O-Bees (Janet Blossom, Steven Porter, and Robert Merchanthouse), who regularly performed Mann/Weil compositions. In 1972, Barbra Streisand 's concert album Live Concert at the Forum featured the medley "Sing"/ "Make Your Own Kind ...

6. Islamic geometric patterns - Wikipedia

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   Islamic geometric patterns are derived from simpler designs used in earlier cultures: Greek, Roman, and Sasanian. They are one of three forms of Islamic decoration, the others being the arabesque based on curving and branching plant forms, and Islamic calligraphy; all three are frequently used together. [1] [2] From the 9th century onward, a ...

7. Celtic knot - Wikipedia

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   Celtic knots ( Irish: snaidhm Cheilteach, Welsh: cwlwm Celtaidd, Cornish: kolm Keltek, Scottish Gaelic: snaidhm Ceilteach) are a variety of knots and stylized graphical representations of knots used for decoration, used extensively in the Celtic style of Insular art. These knots are most known for their adaptation for use in the ornamentation ...