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  2. 40 Best DIY Christmas Ornament Ideas from Instagram - AOL

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    Print photos of each member of your family and glue them onto brown-painted, recycled jar lids to make this easy ornament idea from @hellowonderful_co. Add pipe cleaner antlers and a mini pompom ...

  3. Victorian decorative arts - Wikipedia

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    Victorian decorative arts refers to the style of decorative arts during the Victorian era. Victorian design is widely viewed as having indulged in a grand excess of ornament. The Victorian era is known for its interpretation and eclectic revival of historic styles mixed with the introduction of Asian and Middle Eastern influences in furniture ...

  4. Ornament (art) - Wikipedia

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    Ornament (art) Rococo interior of the Wilhering Abbey ( Wilhering, Austria ), with a trompe-l'œil painted ceiling, surrounded by highly decorated stucco. In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in ...

  5. Iznik pottery - Wikipedia

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    Dish with foliate rim decorated with flowers and a cypress tree, with a dollar pattern border, c. 1575. Iznik pottery, or Iznik ware, named after the town of İznik in Anatolia where it was made, is a decorated ceramic that was produced from the last quarter of the 15th century until the end of the 17th century.

  6. Cutting out this phrase from a half-century-old law would ...

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    Cutting out this phrase from a half-century-old law would save homebuyers $175,000 and help tackle the housing crisis, economists say

  7. Benin ivory mask - Wikipedia

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    The Benin ivory mask is a miniature sculptural portrait in ivory of Idia, the first Iyoba ( Queen Mother) of the 16th century Benin Empire, taking the form of a traditional African mask. The masks were looted by the British from the palace of the Oba of Benin in the Benin Expedition of 1897 . Two almost identical masks are kept at the British ...

  8. Marquetry - Wikipedia

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    Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie; from the French marqueter, to variegate) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or designs. The technique may be applied to case furniture or even seat furniture, to decorative small objects with smooth, veneerable surfaces or to freestanding pictorial ...

  9. Christmas - Wikipedia

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    The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ ‎ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the Eucharist.

  10. Fashion - Wikipedia

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    Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing ( styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging.

  11. Sumer - Wikipedia

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    Sumer (/ ˈ s uː m ər /) is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.