Nutcrackers in the form of wooden carvings of a soldier, knight, king, or other profession have existed since at least the 15th century.

Steinbach Nutcrackers have become popular in the United States as well, and the recreated " Bavarian village " of Leavenworth, Washington, even features a nutcracker museum.

All Clark's Nutcrackers have a sublingual pouch capable of holding around 50-150 seeds, depending on the size of the seeds ; the pouch greatly enhances the birds ' ability to transport and store seeds.

The 6 – 7 mm long seeds have a 2 cm wing and can be wind-dispersed, but are also very often dispersed by Spotted Nutcrackers.

Nutcrackers range from 32 – 38 cm in length ( from tip of beak to tip of tail ) and have a wingspan ranging from 49 – 53 cm.

The to long seeds have only a vestigial wing and are dispersed by Spotted Nutcrackers.

The 9 – 12 mm long seeds have only a vestigial wing and are dispersed by Spotted Nutcrackers.

The to long seeds have only a vestigial wing and are dispersed by Spotted Nutcrackers.

The seeds are large, 10 – 16 mm long and have only a vestigial wing ; they are dispersed by Spotted Nutcrackers.

The seeds are long, with a wing ; they are mostly dispersed by the wind, but some are also dispersed by Clark's Nutcrackers.

The seeds are 5 mm long, with a 10 – 20 mm wing ; they are mostly dispersed by the wind, but some are also dispersed by Clark's Nutcrackers, which pluck the seeds out of the opening cones.

They ’ ve been caught stealing acorns from Acorn Woodpecker caches and robbing seeds and pine cones from Clark's Nutcrackers.

Popular attractions at the market include the Nativity Scene ( a crèche or crib ), Zwetschgamännla ( figures made of decorated dried plums ), Nussknacker ( carved Nutcrackers ), Gebrannte Mandeln ( candied, toasted almonds ), traditional Christmas cookies such as Lebkuchen and Magenbrot ( both forms of soft gingerbread ), Christstollen ( Stollen ), a sort of egg bread with candied fruit, Bratwurst, and for many visitors one of the highlights of the market: Glühwein, hot mulled wine ( with or without a shot of brandy ), or Eierpunsch ( an egg-based warm alcoholic drink ).

* Nutcrackers and Christmas Trees in historic Klin

Nutcrackers usually work on the principle of moments as described in Archimedes ' analysis of the lever.

The United States Postal Service ( USPS ) in October 2008 issued four stamps with Nutcrackers for the first time.

These featured custom-made Nutcrackers made by Richmond, Virginia, artist Glenn Crider.

Food is taken both from the ground and from trees, where the Nutcrackers are very agile among the branches.

Clark's Nutcrackers each cache about 30, 000 to 100, 000 each year in small, widely scattered caches usually under 2 to 3 cm of soil or gravelly substrate.

Nutcrackers retrieve these seed caches during times of food scarcity and to feed their young.

Limber Pine, Pinus flexilis, is an important source of food for several species, including Red Squirrels and Clark's Nutcrackers.

Spotted Nutcrackers are not migratory, but will erupt out of range when a cone crop failure leaves them short of a food supply, the thin-billed eastern race macrorhynchos being the more likely to do this.

Britain records about 8 vagrants per year, but in 1968 over 300 Nutcrackers visited Britain as part of a larger irruption into western Europe, probably due to a spell of early cold weather in Siberia.

After the end credits roll, two other Nutcrackers arrive at the scene of the battle.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

The American people have indeed come a long way in the brief interval between 1930 and 1961.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).

I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

Had he been able to escape this long siege of invalidism, I'm convinced, Papa would have left a sizable estate.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.

American taxpayers have been impressed by the surpluses for a long, long time.

The Federal program eventually should have a favorable impact on Missouri's depressed areas, and in the long run that will benefit St. Louis as well.

Gov. John M. Dalton, himself a lawyer and a man of long service in government, spoke with rich background and experience when he said in an address here that lawyers ought to quit sitting in the Missouri General Assembly, or quit accepting fees from individuals and corporations who have controversies with or axes to grind with the government and who are retained, not because of their legal talents, but because of their government influence.

a person will never have spiritual poise and inner peace as long as the heart holds a grudge.

Evidently the war drum beating and hysteria so painstakingly being stirred up in the West have been planned long in advance.

Top scientists have warned that an area hit by an atomic missile of massive power would be engulfed in a suffocating fire storm which would persist for a long time.

Some of the stumps are as much as three feet long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying sediments.

And particularly in the musical field, adaptations have long been the rule, from Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow to Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady.

`` I think I've fixed the pump so we won't have to worry about it for a long time '', he said.

What matter the others so long as I have my place in history ''.

I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming, `` O Gogol, O Chekhov, O Thackeray and Dickens, what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks, a birdbath, and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps ''??

On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.