Backstory — Nutcrackers
Christmas Past
English - November 23, 2023 08:01 - 11 minutes - 7.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 746 ratingsHistory winter christmas holiday holidays nostalgia season seasonal xmas yule yuletide Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Decorative nutcrackers — most often resembling a toy soldier, but available in countless other characters — are synonymous with the Christmas season. Why? It’s a story whose origins predate Christmas itself. And whose history involves a mining town, Napoleon, dance theater, and World War two. So...let’s get crackin’!
Mentioned in this Episodehttp://www.nutcrackermuseum.com/
Music in this Episode "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies" — Kevin MacLeod, via Wikimedia Commons "March from the Nutcracker" — Trygve Larsen, via Pixabay "Chinese Dance from the Nutcracker" — Trygve Larsen, via Pixabay "Arabian Dance from the Nutcracker" — Trygve Larsen, via Pixabay "Wish Background" — Kevin MacLeod, via Incompetech