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  2. History of glass - Wikipedia

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    Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The history of glass-making dates back to at least 3,600 years ago in Mesopotamia. However, most writers claim that they may have been producing copies of glass objects from Egypt. [ 1 ] Other archaeological evidence suggests that the first true glass was ...

  3. Shiny Brite - Wikipedia

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    The Shiny Brite company produced the most popular Christmas tree ornaments in the United States throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In 1937, Max Eckardt established Shiny Brite ornaments, working with the Corning Glass company to mass-produce glass Christmas ornaments. Eckardt had been importing hand- blown glass balls from Germany since around ...

  4. Garden ornament - Wikipedia

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    Lawn ornament. A front lawn featuring a fountain and a small sculpture of an elephant. Lawn ornaments are decorative objects placed in the grassy area of a property. [1][2][3][4][5][6] Animal forms: animal statues such as frogs, turtles, rabbits, deer, flamingoes and ducks are cast in plastic or cement. Bathtub Madonna: a statue of Mary the ...

  5. J. W. Fiske & Company - Wikipedia

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    J. W. Fiske & Company of New York City was the most prominent American manufacturer of decorative cast iron and cast zinc in the second half of the nineteenth century. [1] In addition to their wide range of garden fountains, statues, urns, and cast-iron garden furniture, they provided many of the cast-zinc Civil War memorials of small towns ...

  6. Acanthus (ornament) - Wikipedia

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    In architecture, an ornament may be carved into stone or wood to resemble leaves from the Mediterranean species of the Acanthus genus of plants, which have deeply cut leaves with some similarity to those of the thistle and poppy. Both Acanthus mollis and the still more deeply cut Acanthus spinosus have been claimed as the main model, and ...

  7. Kew Gardens - Wikipedia

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    The Palm House was built by architect Decimus Burton and iron-maker Richard Turner between 1844 and 1848, and was the first large-scale structural use of wrought iron. It is considered "the world's most important surviving Victorian glass and iron structure". [25] [26] The structure's panes of glass are all hand-blown.

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