And Marcel Duchamp and other Dadaists had elevated the banal objects of everyday life to art back in the 1920s.

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The exhibit, according to the museum, brings together an extensive collection -- more than 60 objects associated with Lincoln's life, including an iron wedge used to split wood in the 1830s and his famous top hat, which he wore the night he was shot at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

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Her following is large and diverse, from royals and billionaires to those who aspire to live the luxury life to others who just want to look at big, beautiful objects.

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The exhibition features for the first time more than 300 objects from Bowie's life, from amazing stage outfits to rare photographs from the early years, videos of outstanding live performances screened in a thunderously loud surround-sound cinema, Bowie's own musical instruments, record cover designs and paintings.

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In every issue, ReadyMade magazine offers readers a plethora of ways to save energy and do right by the planet, through reusing and transforming objects from everyday life.

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They are the ornamentation motifs of flower, vine, flame, lotus petals, bamboo-shoot or water-buffalo teeth, used to decorate objects and architectural elements throughout Cambodia, and people have long drawn these motifs from the environment and social life - from the Angkorian period to today.

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