Gnomes

Apr 2002	Price that a Canadian firm charges for a ten-inch cement "Garden Liberal" resembling Prime Minister Jean Chretien: $50	Harper's Index Source: Castart Studios (Victoria, B.C.)
Oct 2001	Minimum number of garden gnomes relocated to the forest since 1996 by France's Garden Gnome Liberation Front: 6,000	Harper's Index Source: Le Front de Libération des Nains de Jardin (Villemoutiers, France)
Nov 1998	Number of ornamental figures based on German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Germany's Garden Gnome Museum: 14	Harper's Index Source: Das Deutsche Gartenzwerg Museum (Weisbaden, Germany)

April 15, 2005	A London grandmother coldcocked a burglar with a garden gnome.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CNN.com
July 17, 2001	One 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.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

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