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What is it? . . . . . . A bird, a plane, a part from a car or perhaps a rare pre-Columbian artifact? . . . Use your imagination, combined with all your knowledge and experience, plus any clues in the picture, to figure out what it is! |
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Week of December 12, 2005: |
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Once you make your guess about what the image shows--or if you give up--scroll down to the bottom of this page, or click below, for the full picture.
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DON'T GO ANY FURTHER UNLESS YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT IT IS! |
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An extreme close-up view of a colorful tinsel garland. According to legend, tinsel came about as a Christmas tree decoration due to a sad tale of a woman whose husband had passed away. She was left with several children to raise and worked very hard to support them. She worked hard on a tree to greet the children on Christmas day, but during the night, spiders spun webs through the limbs of her tree. According to legend, the Christ child witnessed the webbing and knowing the woman would be devastated to find all her work ruined, he changed to webs into silver. Actually, tinsel was first used in Germany in 1610 and was originally made of silver. Machines were invented to stretch out the silver into thin strips soon afterward and inventors tried unsuccessfully to create tinsel from a mixture of lead and tin. However, the mixed tinsel tended to be too heavy and prone to breaking, so people reverted to the use of silver until the mid-20th century. |
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This image is the property of the owners of the following website: http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ |
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