Real facts of Christmas tree

Written by admin on October 24th, 2008 in Real facts of Christmas tree.

Real facts of Christmas tree

Christmas trees were used for business in the United States from 1850.Until rather now a day, all the Christmas trees are coming from the jungles. The best selling trees are Virginia pine, Noble fir, white pine, Fraser fir, Scotch pine, Balsam fir and Douglas fir. More than 2.000 trees are normally cultivated per acre. Averagely 1.000-1.500 these trees will live. Usually all the trees need trimming to reach the form of Christmas tree. At the feet of six or seven, the trees are ready for the harvest. It will take six to ten years to struggle with the strong rain, wind, hail and the dryness to obtain a ripe tree. In the United States, there is more of 21, 000 farmers for growing Christmas tree. The habit of an official Christmas tree of Chicago was launched in 1913 and mayor Carter H. Harrison in park of Grant lighted it first time.

The first enhanced Christmas tree was in Riga, Latvia in 1510. Re-used trees were used to make barriers for soil erosion and were placed in the ponds as the fish shelter. Mark Carr started the first Christmas tree for retail in the United States in 1851 in New York. The Christmas trees helps to eliminate the dust and the pollen from the air. 100.000 people are working in the Christmas tree business.98 percent of all the Christmas trees are developed with the farms. President Coolidge began the national ceremony of lighting of Christmas tree on the lawn of the White House in 1923.

The trees such as hawthorns and cherry were used as Christmas trees in the ancient period. The use of small candles to light a Christmas tree begins in the middle of the 17th century. Teddy Roosevelt prohibited the Christmas tree of the White House for ecological cause. The tree in your house will consume as much as a quarter of water per day. True Christmas trees are implied in less than one tenth percent of the housing fires. 93% of true Christmas tree is re-used by their users by the community re-using programs, their garden or the back yard. Nearly 175.000 Real Christmas trees were sold through the E-business or the catalogue and shipped mail orders.

Christmas trees are packed to protect from the damage of branches while transporting. The helicopters help to raise the Christmas trees harvested of the farms. One acre of Christmas trees envisages the daily oxygen for 18 people. First the reference to the printed Christmas trees appeared in Germany in 1531. In 2002, 446.996 acres of ground in the United States were in the production of Christmas tree. 2 or 3 plants are planted for each harvested Christmas tree. In the Christmas tree farmers 2004 planted sixty million plants of Christmas tree. In 2003, 78% of bought Christmas trees were precut and 22% were removed by own. 30-35 million real Christmas trees were sold in the United States each year.

Pink Christmas tree

Written by admin on October 23rd, 2008 in Pink Christmas tree.

Pink Christmas tree

The pink Christmas trees are the right way to make your children’s to express their creativity. Let the children to select their own tree for their celebration and decorating will give you the idea about what they thinking.

The pink Christmas trees are a marvelous selection for the small princess in your life. Any small girl or lofty girl will want the one of the latter for her play room, bedroom, or for hall so that it will be decorate with “girly” choices. You will note that the pink Christmas trees sparks an interest into the majority of the girls because they like the idea to decorate their own Christmas tree and a pink Christmas tree is just as an allowance. You can easily find a pink Christmas tree pretty and, in the majority of the cases, they will be available in your near by store.

Pink Christmas trees can be obtained in the majority of the stores in all the various sizes and forms. They have the price just like the other kinds of trees and you are sure to find one in more or less any price. You can also find some kits, which comprise a pink Christmas tree, but that will also come out with the matched ornaments. It will be a great idea, if you want all with the match or if you would like to have all in a handy package. The prices on these kits are normally pretty cheap, too. The major of the time these kits come with a tabletop tree, thus if you seeking a big pink Christmas tree, then you have to probably buy the tree and the ornaments individually.

Expand the size of the space where you want to put the pink Christmas tree. In the majority of the bedrooms, a large tree would occupy the full room thus a tabletop tree would function better. However, if you have a playroom or a hall, then a pink Christmas tree can adapt and it look great. First decide where you want to put the tree and then you can determine what size will function better for you and your family.

It is necessary that you permit your children to select the ornaments and to decorate the tree themselves. This will facilitate them to collect much pride in decorating their own tree. They may not decorate it as you wish, but if it is their tree and they think that it seems large, whereas that is the most vital. Permit them to use their imaginations to help and transform their Christmas tree into their own masterpiece. The pink Christmas trees would be unusual thinking, but they will make the dream of your small princess to come real.

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Origin of Christmas tree

Written by admin on October 21st, 2008 in Origin of Christmas tree.

Origin of Christmas tree

There are many customs and symbols, which we associate Christmas including the Christmas tree, placing biscuits for the Santa Claus, and sending Christmas cards and present for Christmas. You watch all the ethnicity, which is terrific, with your family without thought about where they started or of why they became so famous initially.

While you do not need to know why you rejoice the holidays of Christmas in your style, it leads to the interesting conversation when you are sipping the egg flip in front of the chimney. Thus, if you are ready to enjoy with your family and friends with your knowledge of the Christmas holidays, evoke these interesting facts about the holidays that are largely celebrated.

Modern Christmas term derived from the olden English “Christ masse” it means the “mass of Christ. ” Christ derived from Greek language, which was the language spoken by Christ himself. The Greek form of work was Khristos, that the means “anointed one. ”

The origins of the Christmas tree really predate Christ and the history of Christianity by thousands of years. The tree finds it’s beginning from the period of the druids, a community made up of the wizards, prophets and pastors. During the period of the spring solstice of druid, who comes on December 21, the pastor of druid enhanced the outdoor trees with apples and candle lit to show their enjoyment to their god Odin. The candle implies the light of their god Balter. The Christians afterward followed the practice largely and decorated their fir trees with apples to represent the abrasion of Adam and Eve’s grace.

The first Christmas tree was given to the soldier of the battle, Winfried from England, who was journeyed to the Scandinavian forests to hide the pagan, as per to the myth. When Winfried approach with an undisciplined crowd being ready to lead a human sacrifice before the crowned oak of Geismar, he cut shorted the tree and a fir tree immediately spouted out from where the tree of oak was formerly held. Winfried claimed the tree was the three of the Christ who symbolize the love and the kindness, which should be in each one’s house.

The Santa Claus is an old lively, merry and fat fellow who travels the whole world on the Christmas Eve providing the presents to deserving children. The modern-day the Santa Claus finds his beginning in Saint Nicholas.

Christmas cards were initiated during the 1840s in Great Britain with the introduction of postal system and the penny stamp. While a penny was huge money during those days, the giving the Christmas cards became very popular by the 1860s.

The earliest druids were the pioneer to known about the society to have worn spray of sacred and mistletoe. The priests of druid thought that the holy could remain forever and vibrant the whole year because it had the magic belongings. We could have also taken certain other symptom of traditions from the druids. Mistletoe, on the one hand, implying fertility and was looked to the bottom of the Christian church for its organization with not-virginity.

Gift giving came to us from the Romans. The Romans swapped garlands of holy like gifts during their festival of Saturnalia, which coincided with the winter solstice of the druid. The garlands were a symbol of the outside life. Later, much of Christians would start to decorate their houses with the holy during the festival of Saturnalia to avoid the irritation of the Romans. Thereafter the ornament with the holy was absorbed in Christian customs.

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National Christmas tree

Written by admin on October 18th, 2008 in National Christmas tree.

National Christmas tree

In the US, a big tree close to the White House is enhanced as national Christmas tree. Switching-on Christmas lights on the tree is done by the American president early in the season of Christmas. And it is an annual televised event and months long festival known as Pageant of peace. And the small trees nearby are other decorations bringing to the national Christmas tree and referred as the Pathway to peace.

The habit of having “National Christmas tree” started in 1923 at the time of Calvin Coolidge. At the same year, Paul D. Moody presented Balsam fir tree from Vermont, and it was placed in the ellipse apart from the White House. At 5:00 on the Christmas Eve, standing at the foot of the tree, President Coolidge was briefly addressed to a crowd and electrically lights the tree with a touch of a button. 2.500 electric bulbs in white, red and green, given by the electric league of Washington, lighted up the tree. In 1932, the hidden loudspeakers were fitted in the tree to play the Christmas anthems, beginning a customs, which continued during decades. The tree was widely known as “singing tree” and fascinated lots of visitors.

Because of alteration changes in the Sherman plaza, the rituals were moved in 1934 to Lafayette Park, which is at north side of the White House. Instead of using the same tree each year, one of the fir trees of 23 feet at North Carolina beside the statue of Andrew Jackson was used in alternative years between 1934 and 1938 to safeguard the trees. New star shape lights were used to decorate the tree in 1935, but some were wrapped in a week, making necessary they set up a barrier eight-side fence for the following year to guard the tree from gangsters.

In 1940 National Community Christmas tree, ignited by Franklin D. Roosevelt American president, lighted before the Washington Monument. In 1939 and 1940, the National Community Christmas tree the turned over to the open ground of ellipse in the south of the White House. In 1946, the ceremony of lighting, emission on the radio and since 1925, it become a televised program.

From 1948 to 1951, President Truman enjoyed his Christmas holidays in his house at Missouri and lit the National community Christmas tree by the remote control. The red lights decorated the state trees around the National Christmas tree in 1965. From here 1953, the radio transmits and the remote transmission of the program of lighting the tree had developed to be very widespread. Each year of 1954 to 1972, a new cut tree was carried to the White House.

In order to preserve energy, in 1973 the tree was decorated mainly with not-energy-consuming materials such as balls and garlands. With minimum weight and heat on the branches, this also helps to save the tree. In 1995 the national Christmas tree was lighted by natural solar energy for the first moment by President George Bush.

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History of Christmas tree

Written by admin on October 17th, 2008 in History of Christmas tree.

History of Christmas tree

When your child reaches the age Christmas will become important. All arrangements, scheduling and enhancement, all the thing about holidays is an enthralling experience. With the enthusiasm curiosity about the colors also comes, the songs, the customs that each family needs. Like elders, we use to celebrate with our own family in our own way and style. We hang the lights in our own way, make particular cakes and biscuits, we even watch certain exposures of the holidays TV, in the following years, because, in the right manner that we do it.

For some families who enjoy the Christmas, custom is that the universal is almost a Christmas tree. It remains the most accepted sign of Christmas in all the houses, and it is so dominating in our culture because we seldom wonder. Like the majority of our holidays practice, the story of the Christmas tree is not exactly clear, but it is almost during ancient time, and it is mostly related to the ritual monk. Many antique traditions venerated the same, which remained green in winter while other trees were naked. The green trees were used as a remainder, which the spring would pass, and the ground would be again fertile.

Like the ancient Rome, green trees were used like part of the celebration of New Year festival of Saturnalia. Romans changed branches and brushwood of the plants as blessing of good-luck. Many historians believe that the pagan of Scandinavia were the first people to bring the real trees indoor as symbol of mid winter of the promise of the next warmly of the spring. The German Saxon could have been the first to light their trees with candles, and to enhance them with decoration-curios of the good fortune. The custom of the interior tree was so strong in Germany; it strongly assumed that the first use of the Christmas trees by Christians originated there, with some specialist placing its source at the eighth century.

First filed Christmas tree was in England took place in 1841, when the Queen Victoria husband, Prince Albert who born in Germany established a tree in the castle of Windsor. In America, the German settler used Christmas trees during 1830′S. The habit took many years for propagating in the United States, because the majority of the people rightly thought that its pagan origins, but by the 1890′S the Christmas tree enhanced the interiors of the majority of the American houses.

Today we like to decorate our trees with the various ornaments, which have the important sense to our lives. The ornaments earlier, especially in Europe, with even food-delicacies envisaged satisfying the spirits of the good luck. With regard to your child, naturally, your Christmas tree has a completely different reason.

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Christmas tree ornament

Written by admin on October 16th, 2008 in Christmas tree ornament.

Christmas tree ornament

It occurs only once per year and decorations are a treasure to be seen. The final touch for any Christmas tree is the ornaments. Perhaps you have memories of a personalized ornament given to you as a child or perhaps it is the custom to hang them with your family - making sure that each one is entirely distant from its neighbor for that extra stroke of beauty. Christmas Ornaments for the Christmas trees, which we select, should resembles our family and ourselves.

There are various kinds of ornaments for Christmas trees. There is something for every one with unique specialty and sure it will fulfill your desire. The glass ornaments are very costly, because they require more complicated work and make more beauty to any type of Christmas tree. The glass ornaments reflects the lights and radiate them through the room, and perhaps, even a flutter. These ornaments are regularly decorated with the hand, which is makes it more exclusive and attracts the eyes of others.

There are a numerous strong ornaments, also existing, in various colors and shapes. If you have a kid who likes to be close play with the Christmas tree, the ornaments cannot be considered as the best choice. Or, if you pet which appreciates the mystic of the little tree, you can select something strong. That is why there are plastic materials, which are safer for your naughty family.

If you have kids, there is lots of way to make charming ornaments for Christmas trees at the house. By using the golden ribbon, attach a bow and keep it on the tree. Continue this till your tree is filled with golden memories of imagination of your child. You can also buy the flat ornaments made out of white ceramics, like your children, change them into beautiful ornaments for Christmas trees.

These attractive small signs of Christmas are all over during these season. If you have excitement to eat, then you can add the terrible chocolate ornaments to the Christmas trees. Leave those trees and for more beautification you can tie red bowls around the tree as your wish. If your child would like a letter personalized from Santa, contact with one services and enquire about the sending ornament for your child personalized with his name written on it. It will be really one of the special ornaments on the tree and your child will be very happy by seeing it.

The ornaments for Christmas trees are really glazing on the cakes. Let them reflect you, your house, your love and your family for the holidays. The most valuable ornaments are those, which we decorate with affection. Not very astonishingly, they are also more gorgeous.

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Christmas tree existence

Written by admin on October 15th, 2008 in Christmas tree existence.

Christmas tree existence

In fact it is nothing but Christians pagan belief: The tree is the sign of the carnival of the revival of the life. Something new is not always sophisticated. The situation here is reverse because the spiritual suggestion was with force added to a secular position.

The Christmas trees are very popular because they exist in several shapes and forms. They can be manmade or real. For the real trees, the silver fir, Fraser fir, balsam fir and the Norway spruce, noble fir, Douglas, stone pines and Scot are mostly used in Northern Europe and North America. But the fake trees are more suitable and very popular because they are less costly. In the United States 70% of the trees are artificial. Latest manmade Christmas trees were manufactured by the companies, which produced brushes. At the beginning trees were created with pig bristles, plastic bristles, the dyed green color, or spiral wire. The manufacturer is in a practical mood so we can expect in various type.

The people care for the ecological matters are not very convinced with all fresh things coming up with PVC trees are more deadly poisonous. The experts think that the dust or the leaves from the trees should not be consumed or gasped. The polythene trees are less poisonous but very costly than PVC trees.

Decorations of Christmas tree had undergone various alterations. At the 16th century the Christmas trees were enhanced with the roses that are normally, related the Virgin Mary. The wafers, nuts, paper roses, chocolate, and lighted candles were the famous decorative substance for the trees in 17th century. Till the middle of 19th centuries biscuits, the chains of popcorns, the dry grapes, nuts and the pretzels were used but the remain half year the toys, jingles, garlands and paper decorations were the famous enhancing items. Angels, flags, Stars or kept at the peak of the tree. They were the Germans who presented the range of ornaments to the global market expanding from the butterflies, stars with the tiny musical apparatus.

The initially known decorated Christmas tree was in Latvia at 1510. The Georgian kings brought the first Christmas tree to England from Germany. The royal court was not following the habit of setting the Christmas trees. It was the Germans who began the custom at the 16th century with the ornamented wood pyramids with trees and candles.

The famous story is-It was chill evening in Germany around the 16th century. Martin Luther King was hypnotized by the sight of the glimpse stars in the sky in between the branches of tree. He struggled to describe his incident to his family. He took a small fir tree from the garden and brought inside and enhanced with candles. By this the tendency of decoration started.

The evergreen trees are magic sign of the life. They remind us about the spring summer. Electric lights and Candles are used as decorative items so that the light of spring can hide the darkness of the winter.

The selection of Christmas trees is regarded as a fine art. It is an annual ritual, which marks the official beginning of this season. Or else there is provisional retail in the shopping centers and reduction stores. The customers like to go to seek farms for external tree settings. The real Christmas trees are more famous in Virginia because they are not put down after Christmas but are used as landscape.

Christmas tree decoration

Written by admin on October 14th, 2008 in Christmas tree decoration.

Christmas tree decoration

Decorating the Christmas trees with biscuits and chocolates is a grand way to give your tree the personal feel. It’s an innovative and the results can astonish in conditions by their artistic impression. Decorate the artificial tree with the cooked items is way to create it more intimate and true glance. A slim Christmas tree seems really big with the decorations done with the small wrapped chocolates.

Enhancing the Christmas trees with eatables went back at times before Christ was born. Presenting of food was normally kept beside the ridge and the windows to feed the good spirits and to save themselves from the bad ones. The first Christmas trees were in real of the fake of the shape of pyramid. The habit of keeping pickle and other foods on the steps of the cedar pyramids of wood, which were built by hand, was very common in Germany before the 16th century. It was followed till Martin Luther came beside and presented the straight shape, which was fetched inside and lighted with candles and became popular in Christmas tree.

Enhancing the Christmas trees with shortbread and gingerbread is also a custom, which came from Slavic cultures and Germanic. Normally at present you can buy any kinds of various biscuit cutters this certainly arouse one’s creativity when it suddenly creates eatable decorations of Christmas. The popular shapes of biscuit cutter are Christmas stockings, stars, Santa and reindeer. Though you could also enhance your tree with gingerbread or shortbread in any form, which you like.

There are really attractive innovative biscuit cutters on the market including those formed like natural scenes. A good idea to decorate your tree is by using the heart shaped biscuits. Enhancing the Christmas trees with chocolates can be more effective. You can hang the simple cadies, lollypops and chocolates under flexible packing. The caramels wrapped in foil look good on a large slim Christmas tree. Chocolates can also be stuck together to make the garland interesting, brilliant and delicious.

It is also very easy to make the Christmas tree attractive by using the pins and Styrofoam balls. You could also use the frozen fruit. In truth a historical decoration of Christmas is with the oranges, which is cloves. In theory you could also use oranges as base for any type of ornament home made chocolates.

Moreover, the cane candy is one of most effective sign of Christmas and it is really a symbol of Jesus. A candy manufacturer founded it in Indiana at the stage of 1800’s. He came out with the idea to make a flat white peppermint candy. The white color shows the purity and nature of Jesus without sin. And the three small lines show the pain bared by Christ on the cross. The reason there are three is because it implies the holy trinity. The bold line implies the blood of Jesus. The right side at the top resembles the shepherd’s because Jesus is the man of shepherd.

When it happens to enhancing the Christmas trees, one cannot speak about popcorn. The popcorn is one of more useful in decorating of Christmas tree. The popcorn balls, which are colored with the food coloring, also make very attractive decorations of Christmas tree. These popcorn balls resemble like the snow balls on your tree.

Another exclusive idea is to decorate your Christmas tree with self made chocolates apples. These luminous red feasts absolutely look fantastic, particularly on a white or green tree. A nice compliment to the candy apples would be the gold chocolate coins or the foil covered chocolates in the form of Santa.

While enhancing the Christmas trees with the chocolates and with the cookies remember that your achievement is only up to your imagination. Martha Stewart’s book on cooking are a perfect resource for motivation. You can also get better opinion on the web sites and by seeking the established sites of Christmas tree to get new more opinions.

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Christmas tree

Written by admin on October 13th, 2008 in Christmas tree.

Christmas tree

Usually, the Christmas tree was not placed till December 24, the day before Christmas, and it was taken till January 6, the 12th night. The Germans usually put their tree on Christmas Eve and have it till January 1st, till the New Year revelry’s gets over. However, in the new age many peoples placing their trees in the first and second weeks of December. This made the real possible that the many number of people use the manmade trees instead of bringing the real fir tree or pine inside which would happens to fall of leaves and them naked branches by Christmas Day.

The history of the Christmas tree has surely has its roots in pagan customs. The Celtic druids and Norse pagan worshipped the evergreen trees because they were everlasting and did not expire, and reminds green when all other trees and plants died in the naked winter. The pagan of Scandinavians have begun the tendency to bring the decorated trees inside in order to attract the native people and tree in their houses to join the celebrations. The German pagan tribes are the pioneers to keep the candles on the trees, whereas the Romans in Saturnalia, their midwinter celebrations, evergreen branches are considered and exchanged like signs good luck.

It is said that the first Christmas tree was brought to England by Prince Albert in the 1840s and a picture of the Prince Albert, Queen Victoria and their children before an enhanced Christmas tree. The fashion become very popular and the Christmas tree became one of the principal symbols of English Victorian Christmas. The way that we enhanced our Christmas tree nowadays have much to the Victorians - we imitated their style and decorations and when we imagine Christmas, it is mainly Victorian Christmas. Prince Albert was has the habit of providing countless Christmas trees to the schools and the army barracks for seasonal festival.

It is said that the German colonists who fetch the habit from their motherland presented the initial Christmas trees to the United States. In these days it is usual to the cities and councils to plant many trees so that all can have fun. Many these are attached to particular events and given as memorial gifts, instance the Christmas tree were given annually from the town of Oslo to the London city like appreciation for the British assist of Norwegian challenge during the Second World War.

The Thuringian Christmas in the time of 1850’s in Germany started to sell the garlands formed by glass and golden angels. and the English Christmas trees in the times of 1860’s would be hung with tiny gifts, though the majority of presents were always put in the tree. By the 1890s Victorians managed to go completely to the top of the tree - the Christmas tree would extend from the floor to the ceiling and would be decorated with doll, glitter and garlands, it will be a great recreation for the children.

Christmas light history

Written by admin on October 12th, 2008 in Christmas light history.

Christmas light history

The initially known Christmas tree, electrically luminous was the tree created by Edward H. Johnson, a colleague of inventor Thomas Edison. He had Christmas tree light bulbs particularly created for him, When he was a chairman of Edison Electric Light Company, an ancestor of these days Con Edison electric of misleading. He proudly showed his Christmas tree, which was self cabled with electric incandescent bulbs of 80 red, white and blue size of nuts, on December 22, 1882 in his on the fifth avenue in New York City. The local newspapers ignored the history, thinking it as a publicity act.

Anyway, a reporter of Detorid newspaper published it, and Johnson became largely considered as a father of electric lights of Christmas tree. And from 1900, the companies started to tie up the Christmas lights behind their windows. The Christmas lights were too costly for the middle class person; as such, the electric Christmas lights did not become the replacement for majority of candles until 1930.

In 1895, President of United States Grover Cleveland conceitedly provided the first electric lite Christmas tree in the White House. It was an enormous specimen, comprising more than hundred multicolored lights. General Electric Co. from Harrison, New Jersey manufactured the first lit of Christmas tree out of strings of the multiples of eight sockets.

Each socket took a small light of carbon-filament of lamp. From there, the Christmas trees was electrically lighted, but only inside, developed with full of enthusiasm in the United States and elsewhere. San Diego in 1904 and New York City in 1912 were the first filed examples of the use of the lighted Christmas tree outside. The library of congress credits the city to inventing “the custom of decorating evergreen tree with lights on Christmas goes back to 1956 when the Mcadenville Men’s club visualized the idea to decorate some trees around the McAdenville center. However, Rockefeller center Christmas tree had “lights” since 1931, but did not have true electric lights till 1956. Moreover, the exposure of Christmas light of Philadelphia and the Christmas tree of Disney also started in 1956. Although General Electric offered community lighting competition during 1920’s, it would take till the middle of the 1950’s for the use of such lights to be implemented by the normal households.

Over a certain period of time, strings of Christmas lights are succeeded in penetrating their use in the places other than the Christmas trees. Soon, the cords of the mantles decorated by lights and the doors inside the houses, and functioned along the roofs, and the veranda of the houses and companies. In modern age, all city skyscrapers are decorated with the long vertical strings, and performed concurrently in Grand ceremonies of illumination.

In the middle of 2000’s, the video of the house of Carson Williams was broadly spreaded on the Internet as a viral video. It acquire a national attention in 2005 at Today Show on NBC, the Inside edition and the CBS Evening News and was telecasted commercial Miller television. Williams changed his pastime into business undertaking, and was commissioned to measure up his dream to a range of 250,000 lights in a shopping center at Denver, as well as exhibit in parks and zoos.

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