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Gnomes

Apr 2002Price that a Canadian firm charges for a ten-inch cement "Garden Liberal" resembling Prime Minister Jean Chretien: $50
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Castart Studios (Victoria, B.C.)

Oct 2001Minimum number of garden gnomes relocated to the forest since 1996 by France's Garden Gnome Liberation Front: 6,000
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Le Front de Libération des Nains de Jardin (Villemoutiers, France)

Nov 1998Number of ornamental figures based on German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Germany's Garden Gnome Museum: 14
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Das Deutsche Gartenzwerg Museum (Weisbaden, Germany)

April 15, 2005A London grandmother coldcocked a burglar with a garden gnome.
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CNN.com

July 17, 2001One hundred and five garden gnomes were stolen and placed in the middle of a roundabout in Chavelot, France, by the Liberation Front for Garden Gnomes, a group that aims to free all garden gnomes.

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