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For Canadian Researcher, It’s A Microscopic Christmas

There was Tiny Tim, and then the Little Drummer Boy — but they had nothing on the microscopic gingerbread house believed to be the smallest in the world and unveiled Wednesday by a Canadian researcher.

About half the size of one made in France last year, it was cut and etched from silicon, complete with sharply defined bricks and trim, and a Canadian flag for a welcome mat.

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