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The surprising story behind the snow globe’s invention in Vienna
Ever wonder how the snow globe was invented? Vienna holds the story of the family that made the snow globe a collectible ...
In the opening scene of the 1941 mystery Citizen Kane, the eponymous protagonist, played by Orson Welles, clenches a snow globe in his hand as he utters his last word: “rosebud.” The glass-encased ...
Erwin Perzy I, a surgical instruments mechanic in Vienna, was experimenting with a water-filled glass globe around 1900 to amplify light when added particles drifted down like snow. The "snowfall" ...
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