Archive for November, 2006

Has Ahrlar section of Topkapi Palace to serve as museum

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

ANKARA - Turkish Daily News

The Has Ahrlar section of Topkapi Palace will be converted into the Islam, Science and Technology History Museum, in collaboration with the Culture and Tourism Ministry and Greater Istanbul Municipality.

According to a written statement released by the ministry, the museum will feature material and equipment related to astronomy, geography, the marine sciences, geometry, chemistry, physic, optics and architecture.

The Has Ahrlar section of Topkapi Palace, which underwent restoration and is currently owned by the Greater Istanbul Municipality, will be handed over to the Culture and Tourism Ministry, which will utilize the building as a museum, the statement said.

Professor Fuat Sezgin, director of the Institute of Arabic-Islamic Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, will also contribute to the organization and display of works in the museum, reported the Anatolia news agency.

Saturday, November 25, 2006

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Elissa has four little sisters - Daily News - Galveston County

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

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Elissa has four little sistersDaily News - Galveston County, TX - Nov 25, 2006… Three of the four boats, all but Grace, were built at the museum. “Boatbuilding skills are also a part of many maritime museums,” Voss said. …
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COYOTE POINT MUSEUM PLANS WILDLIFE CENTER

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

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COYOTE POINT MUSEUM PLANS WILDLIFE CENTER

Source: ANN MURAKAMI, Mercury News Staff Writer
By Spring 1991, people will be able to walk on the wild side and rub elbows with Bay Area animals in a new wildlife center at the Coyote Point Museum in San Mateo. Construction is expected to begin later this month for the three-acre center, which will feature every creature native to the area, from river otters to banana slugs. The center, in the Coyote Point Recreation Area, will include large rock formations with pockets of exhibits housing small mammals. The entire outcrop area will be

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‘Great Dying’ changed marine life forever

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Before and after

About 95% of the Earth’s marine species and 70% of its land species were wiped out during a mass extinction about 250 million years ago, according to Australian and US researchers.

This event, which occurred at the end of the Permian age and is known as the Great Dying, fundamentally changed which species survived in the world’s oceans.

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Discovering history - Suffolk Evening Star

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

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Discovering historySuffolk Evening Star, UK - Nov 21, 2006… Mr Tyas, 44, who lives in Tower Mill Road, said: “It has involved searching into the historical archives and maritime museums to try to get the plans for the …
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Learning Centers not just for kids - Inside Bay Area

Friday, November 17th, 2006

Learning Centers not just for kids
Inside Bay Area, CA - Nov 17, 2006
… The activities for students include field trips to places like the Coyote Point Museum and the Exploratorium in San Francisco and classroom presentations from …

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Seattle Art Museum to auction eight paintings now in storage

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Wednesday, November 8, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

By Sheila Farr

Seattle Times art critic

Eight American paintings from the collection of the Seattle Art Museum will be auctioned Nov. 29 at Sotheby’s in New York, including “New York Abstraction,” by acclaimed painter John Marin (1870-1953), valued at $600,000 to $800,000. The painting was a gift to the museum from the late patrons Anne and Sidney Gerber.

Also on the block will be Chauncey Foster Ryder’s oil “That Which The Sea Gives Up,” first shown at the Paris Salon of 1907 where it received an honorable mention, and then in Seattle at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909.

The paintings appear in Sotheby’s catalog for the upcoming sale.

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