Posts Tagged ‘nutcracker’

Why We Love the Nutcracker

Many people this holiday season will experience the joy of attending a local performance of The Nutcracker ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It’s the most implausible American tradition imaginable, an import from fin-de-siècle Russia straight to your hometown. It’s living proof of the capacity of music and the art of dance to leap the bounds […]

Outrage Over Target’s Trans Nutcracker & Disabled Black Santa Christmas Decorations

Home » Comedy, North America, Social » Outrage Over Target’s Trans Nutcracker & Disabled Black Santa Christmas Decorations     Internet users mocked retail chain Target this week for selling bizarre Christmas decorations such as a nutcracker holding a trans flag and wearing a rainbow flag hat or a black Santa Claus sitting in a […]

Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Ballet in Two Acts

On Christmas Eve, a little girl has a dream… Awakening of feelings, first tender gestures, the world of childhood which gradually merges into that of adults… behind what seems to be a children’s tale unfolds a true initiation novel danced. And, while the children exclaim at Drosselmeyer’s magic tricks and take pleasure in frightening themselves […]

Paranthropus “Nutcracker” Teeth Theory Debunked in New Study

Living approximately between 2.6 million years ago and 0.6 million years ago, the  Paranthropus genus is closely related to our genus,  Homo sapiens , serving as a long-standing close fossil relative to our species. They lived from the end of the Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene, and both these genera are believed to have evolved from […]

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