Snow globe

It is even possible to buy globes with a slot in the centre to display your own favourite photograph. Depending on context, the word Stretch can refer to any of the following things:. Today's snowglobes can include music boxes, moving parts, internal lights, and even electric motors that make the "snow" move so that it isn't necessary to shake the globe. Stretch, a friend of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.. As they became more sophisticated, the glass became thinner, the bases were lighter (Bakelite was popular during the Art Deco period) and the snow was made out of particles of gold foil or non-soluble soap flakes although nowadays, for health and safety reasons, small pieces of white plastic are used. Slang term for a type of limousine. The snow was created by use of bone chips or pieces of porcelain, sand or even sawdust. A character in the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2.

Initially snow globes consisted of a heavy lead glass dome which was placed over a ceramic figure or tableau on a black cast ceramic base, filled with water and then sealed. The IBM 7030 computer, codenamed Stretch. It appears that the list of subjects is endless. Making something longer by stretching or pulling on it. Snowglobes have even been used for election campaigns. They feature many different scenes, ranging from the typical holiday souvenir to collectable ranges featuring Christmas scenes, Disney characters, popular icons, animals, military figures, historical events, etc.

Nowadays there are many different types available, produced by a number of countries from the mass produced versions of Hong Kong and China to the finely crafted globes still produced in West Germany. In the 1950s, plastic snowglobes arrived on the scene. Even Hollywood has been bitten by the snowglobe bug, with globes featuring in a number of films over the years, the most famous of which was in the opening moments of the 1941 classic Citizen Kane. During the 1940s, snow globes were often used for advertising purposes in America whilst religious snowglobes were common gifts for Catholic children in Europe during the 1940s and '50s.

. Many of these were produced by the Atlas Crystal Works which had factories in both Germany and America. Snowglobes became popular in England during Victorian times and, in the early 1920s, crossed the Atlantic to the United States of America where they became a popular collectors item. This quickly became a favourite souvenir for those attending.

In 1889 a snowglobe containing a model of the newly built Eiffel Tower was produced to commemorate the International Exposition in Paris, which marked the centenary of the French Revolution. However, by 1879 at least five companies were producing snowglobes and selling them throughout Europe. It isn't certain exactly when the first snowglobe was made but they appear to date from France during the early 1800s, possibly as a natural successor to the glass paperweight, which had become popular a few years earlier. Whatever you call them, virtual or real, they have a fascination for people young and old all round the world.

Snow globes, snowdomes, snow shakers, snowstorms, waterglobes, waterdomes, waterballs, blizzard weights, shake 'em ups, shakies, snowies. Today's snow globes often have a built-in music box that plays a christmas carol. Place it back onto a flat surface and watch the snow flakes flutter down. To activate the snow, one must shake the globe to churn up the white particles.

The sphere also encloses the water in the globe; the water serves as the medium through which the "snow" falls. A snow globe is a transparent sphere usually made of glass enclosing a miniaturized scene of some sort, often together with a model of a landscape.