Please excuse the trickyness of this challenge - I've eaten all chalk and therefore need to mix up the days a wee bit... and have just got some MB power happening.. so to Day 11 before Day 10, on Day 29!?A Sesame Street Clip that I do remember...
BABUSHKA: From Russian бабушка (bábuška, “grandmother, granny”), diminutive of баба (bába, “old woman”). Also known as Russian Nesting Dolls, and Matryoshkas, Babushka's make up a set of a wooden figures which separate, top from bottom, to reveal a smaller figure of the same sort inside, which has, in turn, another figure inside of it, and so on. The number of nested figures is traditionally at least five, but can be much more, up to several dozen with sufficiently fine craftsmanship. Modern dolls often yield an odd number of figures but this is not an absolute rule; the original Zvyozdochkin set, for instance, had an even number. The form is approximately cylindrical, with a rounded top for the head, tapering toward the bottom, with little or no protruding features; the dolls have no hands (except those that are painted).
Italian Phrase of the day: "Amo il mio mama"- I love my mama..
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