Want to add some value to your Christmas collectables? Head to your local thrift store because you might just be able to ...

Thirty-three years ago, Mary Myers carved and painted her first nutcracker because she thought the ones in stores looked too shiny and new — too perfect. That day in 1989, the Virginia Beach resident ...

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 ...

Nuts are highly nutritious and have been eaten around the world since ancient times. In the last century, nuts became a dietary mainstay particularly the European Alps and parts of Australia, South ...

Decorating the tree, like many modern Christmas traditions, was originally a German innovation. Nuts, fruits and candles were the most common decorations, and some families would later take the tree ...

Although Germany is famous for its handcrafted wooden nutcrackers, the figurines were first fashioned out of wood in France and England in the 15th and 16th centuries. By the 18th century, craftsmen ...

An Italian bronze nutcracker dating back to the 4th Century BC is one of the earliest ones known. And, history teaches us that Anne Boleyn received a nutcracker as a gift from King Henry VIII, too.