With the outbreak of World War I the reputation of the Germanic gnome plummeted.
The manufacturing heartland of the early gnome or dwarf centred on the town of Graefenroda in Germany.
As the first proud Germanic dwarves arrived in England they were promptly re-named as the more humble "gnome".
GNOME, oblivious to my pain and blind to my desires, launched itself once more.
Perhaps not unconnected with the spread of gnomish undress, the late 20th Century also saw the much awaited arrival of the female gnome.
The event, called Gnome Time, will take place in the foyer of Malvern Theatres at 12:30 GMT on Friday 18 November.
People in Worcestershire are being offered the chance to take part in a world record attempt by dressing up as gnome.
Although gnome devotees have successfully withstood the pressures of horticultural correctness, they could yet fall victim to the cult of celebrity.
British companies, such as the one owned by the father of the future Prime Minister John Major, built their success on the gnome trade.
So came the heyday of the traditional concrete garden gnome.
The first known gnome figure in Britain was bought in Germany by Sir Charles Isham, a rich eccentric, and installed at Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire in the 1860s.
Each name falls into one of three categories: Cool (Pop Rockette or Meat Mitts), puns or word play (Metro-Gnome or Deal Breaker) or left-fielders (Buzz Kill or The Poser).
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Only your fists, power-ups, and the occasional giant egg (which transforms you into a gnome or transfer you to the back of a laser-breathing dinosaur) can keep you running.
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After all, if the web can help two isolated hearts find love, or connect the owner of an unwanted garden gnome with someone keen to buy it, surely it can help an editor find the freelancer of his dreams and vice versa.
Who brought the first gnome to England will probably never be proven, but the first to record using the figures in his garden was Charles Isham at Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire who by the 1870s had a series of gnome tableaux in among his giant rock garden.
Or the fact that I was fortunate enough to grow up in a tiny community in Western Maine where the only media I consumed was The Muppet Show on PBS and a backyard that was filled with gnome gardens and mysterious bogs where my grandparents encouraged me to explore and play.
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