Smart Union quickly evolved from making cheap, injection-moulded figurines to toys with mechanical and then electronic parts.

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Both moulded their choreography to help Ms Guillem shine with a new energy.

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Multi-directional strength is achieved by layering the sheets with the fibres pointing in different directions before they are moulded into shape.

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Just metres away from where the coffin was discovered was something else which, if dug up in the garden, would probably be thrown away - a squashed, grey pot, hand-moulded, not made on a wheel, and with a crude decoration of lines and punch-marks.

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Skilled workers in these "Gartenzwergmanufacturs" (zwerg being the German for "dwarf") moulded 3ft (1m) tall figures in terracotta and ceramic mixes, with carefully detailed and hand-painted features.

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CDM's imaging system, it passes first through conventional optical elements, and then through a lens moulded into a shape of a cubic-like function (ie, with a surface which, instead of being spherical, is relatively flat in the centre but has scalloped edges).

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