They have been made from many different perspectives and with many different intentions.
A quilt made by an unidentified artist around 1880 has letters made from many different fabrics, arranged in horizontal rows.
Solar panels can be made from many different semiconductors, including thin film coated onto glass with nanotechnology and from crystalline silicon.
The radical premise of our nation is that one people can be made from many, yet in each new generation we find reasons to limit who those "many" can be — to wall off access to America, literally or figuratively.
This book is made from many encounters in sub-Saharan Africa over 40 years; with Africans (truck drivers, politicians, warlords), naturally, but also with snakes, malaria, famine, thirst and the sun.
That Was Satire That Was Humphrey Carpenter Gollancz, £20, 378pp Buy it at BOL That loved, vilified and ever more fantasised construct known as "the sixties" is made from many building blocks.
A single digital photograph can be made from many different images superimposed on one another.
The new lens is a metamaterial, an artificial material with a structure made from many tiny parts, and it could drastically expand what lenses can do.
Now the poor young exist in a sort of cultural jus made from many such reduced decadences, while those of us born between 1945 and 1961 keep on turning up the heat.
Usually, these measurements are made from many kilometers away, so that it is only possible to tell the average movements of large pockets of air several hundred meters across.
