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39 DECEMBER 2018 DID YOU KNOW? SNOWMAN SEARCH DID YOU KNOW DID YOU KNOW ? ? ? ? ? ? SNOWMAN SEARCH In 1494, Piero de’ Medici ordered Michelangelo to create a snowman in the courtyard of his palace. The Zuriyama Observation Field located in Akabira, Hokkaido, Japan, created 2,036 snowmen by hand in only one hour. Laboring for an hour to build a snowman burns approximately 238 calories. That’s more than dancing and not far from what you’d burn going for a bike ride. Locals in Zürich, Switzerland, explode a snowman to predict the arrival of spring. A “perfect” snowman is best attempted when snow is around 30 degrees to provide for ideal moisture content. BUTTONS CHRISTMAS COLD FREEZE FROZEN MELT OLAF SCARF SNOW WINTER CARROT COAL FROSTY HAT NOSE PIPE SCULPTURE SNOWBALLS WHITE FUN FACTS: SNOWMAN SAY WHAT? IT WAS A SYMBOL OF FRENCH RESISTANCE. During a lull in the Franco-Prussian War in December 1870, several soldiers in the French National Guard who came from artistic backgrounds decided to mount a monument to their pursuit of independence. Under the leadership of Alexandre Falguiere, they crafted a 9-foot-tall snow woman dubbed La Resistance.