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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...