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2. Tinsel - Wikipedia

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   Tinsel was originally made from extruded strands of silver. Because silver tarnishes quickly, other shiny metals were substituted. Before the 19th century, tinsel was used for adorning sculptures rather than Christmas trees. It was added to Christmas trees to enhance the flickering of the candles on the tree. Tinsel was used to represent the ...

3. Legend of the Christmas Spider - Wikipedia

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   Legend of the Christmas Spider. The Legend of the Christmas Spider is an Eastern European folktale which explains one possible origin of tinsel on Christmas trees. It is most prevalent in Western Ukraine, where small ornaments in the shape of a spider are traditionally a part of the Christmas decorations.

4. The dangerous history of tinsel - AOL

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   One of the most popular and simple symbols of Christmas decorations has a surprising history. Tinsel was first invented in the 1600s but it wasn't cheap. Back then it was made from strands of ...

5. 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 ...

6. Behind the scenes of Hallmark's 'A Biltmore Christmas ... - AOL

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   Recreating the 1940s at Biltmore House. ... More than 65 Christmas trees are in Biltmore House, but only one is real ― the 35-foot-tall Fraser fir in the Banquet Hall. ... this huge tinsel tree ...

7. Christmas in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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   The Christmas tree was also changed. The traditional names of the tree, Christbaum or Weihnachtsbaum, was renamed in the press as a fir tree, light tree or Jul tree. [10] The star on the top of the tree was sometimes replaced with a swastika, a Germanic sun wheel or a sig rune, and swastika-shaped tree lights.