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  • Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal New York snow globe "It turns out that the plastic ones have a little hole in the bottom," says Michael Muntner , who displays his 7,000-piece snow-globe collection in his Bethesda, Md., and Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., homes.

    Draining a Snow Globe for Flight Miriam Gottfried 2011

  • Transportation Security Administration rules that restrict liquids and gels in carry-on bags have been a blow to snow-globe collectors.

    Draining a Snow Globe for Flight Miriam Gottfried 2011

  • Ben turns to the man who knows her best, Ron Swanson (who unexpectedly giggles "I love riddles!" after one triumph), to decipher her maddeningly opaque clues — which leads Ron to The Bulge and Ben (Adam Scott) to a Party Down reunion with Martin Starr as a dour employee at the local snow-globe museum.

    Matt's TV Week in Review: Stunts on Grey's and Glee, and More 2012

  • Lush and playful, the snow-globe instrumentals provide a fizzy backdrop for hipster vocals on 10 American and French Yuletide classics.

    Under the Tree, but No Sap Marc Myers 2011

  • The TSA says you can't carry a snow-globe onto a plane, even if it fits in your freedom baggie, because they can't measure how much liquid it contains, and therefore it must contain more than three oz of potential explosive, um, water.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • I breathed a sigh the strength of a snow-globe tornado.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • Diane Blake Harper, for being wonderful and for having the tackiest snow-globe collection ever.

    GONE LISA McMANN 2010

  • In any case, we were encapsulated in a proverbial snow-globe moment and we were both a little shaken.

    Christmas Magic Jack Canfield 2010

  • What happened was that the high school students from California were out here on their East Coast class trip, the kind that includes presidential memorials and snow-globe souvenirs, and irritable chaperones placing strips of Scotch tape on hotel room doors, determining who snuck out in the night by which seals got broken.

    In D.C., tourists come and tourists go -- often thanks only to the Bus Doctor 2010

  • Diane Blake Harper, for being wonderful and for having the tackiest snow-globe collection ever.

    GONE LISA McMANN 2010

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