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- The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located in Manhattan, New York, U.S., is one of the largest and most well-known museums in the ...26 KB (3,976 words) - 06:38, 25 July 2023
- The Field Museum of Natural History (commonly abbreviated to FMNH or The Field Museum) is located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It sits ...15 KB (2,331 words) - 19:38, 26 March 2024
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- anthropological museums: the Peabody Museum at Harvard, the American ... At Harvard, Putnam revealed his enormous talent for natural observation ...9 KB (1,359 words) - 10:26, 11 April 2024
- :For Science Museum of London, see Science museum (London) ... A science museum or a science center is a museum devoted primarily ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- A virtual museum is a museum that houses collections in digital form ... into a virtual museum, such as The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County ...12 KB (1,742 words) - 20:36, 3 May 2023
- The Deutsches Museum (German Museum) in Munich, Germany, is the world ... The museum was founded on June 28, 1903 at a meeting of the Association ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- "ASTRA" National Museum Complex ( Complexul Naţional Muzeal ... ) is a museum complex in Sibiu, Romania, which gathers under the Romanian ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- The Field Museum of Natural History (commonly abbreviated to FMNH or The Field Museum) is located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It sits ...15 KB (2,331 words) - 19:38, 26 March 2024
- Extinction is a natural part of the history of life, and some researchers ... Reconstruction of Mauritius Dodo, Natural History Museum, London]] ...10 KB (1,436 words) - 11:03, 2 August 2023
- believed that an eternal reality underlies the natural order. ... as an assistant in the Harvard University museum of natural history that his ...9 KB (1,298 words) - 09:40, 15 May 2021
- these are curated at the American Museum of Natural History (NYC) ... * Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 2007a. [http://www ...8 KB (1,212 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- educational and research institute and museum complex, administered and ... Field Station]: Located at the Natural History Museum, this project was ...22 KB (3,235 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
- and shared a reverence for America's natural beauty with contemporary ... *"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every ...14 KB (2,021 words) - 23:21, 29 September 2021
- anthropologist, archaeologist, geologist and museum director. His ... contributions to museology in his time as museum curator in several institutions ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 10:58, 9 May 2023
- tell even more. Their beauty, rarity, and history unlock the secrets of their ... remains can be seen today at the British Museum in London. ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 17:39, 16 August 2023
- [[Image:British Museum from NE.JPG|thumb|300 px|Main entrance of the ... until their removal to the new Natural History Museum in 1887. The ethnography ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- A museum (from the Greek mouseion, which denotes a place or temple ... museums of this type include the Natural History Museum in London, the Oxford ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- of Allosaurus skull (San Diego Natural History Museum). ... were excavated near Shell, Wyoming by the Museum of the Rockies and the University ...11 KB (1,532 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- An open air museum is a distinct type of museum that exhibits its ... should properly called a "living history museum." This type ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- Mixed-grass sub-region of the Grassland Natural Region. This is the warmest ... The Grassland Natural Region is characterized by cold winters, warm ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 15:24, 29 January 2024
- The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), located in Manhattan, New York, U.S., is one of the largest and most well-known museums in the ...26 KB (3,976 words) - 06:38, 25 July 2023
- * Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 2007a. [http://www ... * Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 2007a. [http://www ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 12:10, 2 February 2024
- He also had a deep interest in the natural sciences, and studied botany ... Powell's explorations, collections, and knowledge of the natural ...11 KB (1,704 words) - 01:23, 10 February 2023
- and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works ... Under Budge's directorship, the British Museum came to hold arguably ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- After moving to Germany to study History of Music at Munich University ... 1959-1973, published by the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 01:11, 11 November 2022
- [[Image:Quagga-london.jpg|thumb|Quagga specimen at Natural History ... skins such as the one held by the Natural History Museum in London, there ...10 KB (1,564 words) - 04:03, 7 December 2022
- layout and exhibits of a children's museum also factor in studies in ... On! Europe Association of Children's Museum (HO!E), established in 1994 ...29 KB (4,459 words) - 16:38, 10 December 2023
- that Homo erectus was a major stage in the history of human evolution. Just ... (e.g., Lantian). H. erectus utilized the natural corridor of the Great Rift ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 12:01, 2 February 2024
- * Natural History Museum (NHM). 2007a. [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research ... * Natural History Museum (NHM). 2007b [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research ...16 KB (2,396 words) - 18:44, 22 November 2023
- * Georgia Museum of Natural History and Georgia Department of Natural ... * Zoological Museum Amsterdam (ZMA). 2007. [http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/zma3d/detail ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 01:45, 9 January 2023
- Bowman, Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture (New York: Columbia ... ==Historical and Natural SitesIsmail Serageldin and Joan Martin-Brown ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- iguanas in their art (Berrin and Larco Museum 1997). The iguana has also ... * Berrin, K., and Larco Museum. 1997. The Spirit of Ancient Peru: ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 23:45, 4 October 2021
- drawing on the practices of archaeology, history, antiquity, and Near Eastern ... graves in the sand, and because of the natural, arid, dry environment they ...16 KB (2,384 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
- damage to an understanding of the history of life. (See Bone Wars.) ... " to establish the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale ...12 KB (1,930 words) - 04:44, 18 November 2022
- in his house under the floorboards or in a museum strong box (Gould 1990; Kreger ... * Gould, S. J. 1990. Men of the Thirty-third Division. Natural History ...9 KB (1,362 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- a folio of her work to the British Museum. Her shrewd business sense ... on their faces. She wanted to show their natural beauty, and she often asked ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 21:09, 4 October 2022
- unicorn-myth/ The Unicorn Myth] World History Encyclopedia (October 23 ... unicorn Chinggis Khan versus the Unicorn] History Today 66(4) (April 2016 ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 23:41, 8 November 2023
- the sculpture to the Victoria and Albert Museum (now Dr Bhau Daji lad Museum ... followed by the INS Vikrant maritime Museum. Mangrove swamps line much ...10 KB (1,412 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- have been on display in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem, since about 1770. ... 9 in M. J. Everhart, Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 16:31, 10 November 2022
- Until the late 1970s genre styles such as nudes, portraits, and natural ... curated William Eggleston show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976 as ...7 KB (1,047 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- agriculture in irrigated oases, and huge natural gas and petroleum resources ... The Ashgabat National Museum of History contains over 500,000 exhibits ...13 KB (1,843 words) - 04:04, 18 August 2023
- one of the outstanding technicians in the history of photography, and the ... public collection of photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1946 ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- Just as in the development of a human being, in the history of life ... * Natural History Museum. 1983. British Mesozoic Fossils. The Natural ...11 KB (1,570 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- Relief sculpture has a notable history dating back over 20,000 years ... originated with the stone-cutters of pre-history. Relief focuses more on ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- a skillful poet and essayist. Chinese art history abounds in anecdotes about him. ... Uprising in 1900. Now it is in the British Museum collection, missing the first ...12 KB (1,928 words) - 16:38, 25 February 2023
- For an artist that loved so much of the natural world, it seems rather odd ... might be seen as representing progress in history. In 1933, Paul Klee returned ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- histories of Amherst College.W. S. Tyler, History of Amherst College during ... [[Image:Amherst College Museum of Natural History.jpg|thumb|left|250 ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 06:57, 25 July 2023
- permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ... #039;s. Though his interest in depicting natural light and his bold use of ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 23:11, 17 May 2023
- by a means other than experiencing the natural infection. Typically, this ... == History of immunization == Recognizing that an infectious disease ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 16:11, 27 July 2021
- in the country. Through its 60-year history, SNU has grown to the level ... Seoul National University's history presents a cross-section ...21 KB (2,854 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- batting average in Major League Baseball history at .356, including a record ... Series or any other World Series in all history."Shoeless Joe Jackson ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 20:02, 21 April 2023
- P.T. Barnum's "American Museum," and later his circus ... is preserved and celebrated in the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut. ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 04:19, 24 November 2022
- Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), states ... (named after Martha Washington) is in the museum's archived collection ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
- fh000031.jpg|thumb|375px|A mummy in the British Museum]] ... unknown mummy is on display in the British Museum and has been given the nickname ...24 KB (3,616 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the disease or ... Code (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). After the Nuremberg ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 15:28, 10 October 2021
- known for her large, close-up paintings of natural objects and landscapes. ... art can help people to re-assess their natural impulse (whether it be divine ...23 KB (3,732 words) - 07:37, 24 January 2023
- Old Galle constitutes a "living museum" as well as host ... == History == According to James Emerson Tennent, Galle had been the ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- for Abraham Lincoln, on display at the Museum of Funeral Customs.]] ... friendly coffins made entirely of natural materials such as bamboo ...11 KB (1,709 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- by the River Aar but outgrew the natural boundaries of the river ... Museum, Museum of Communication, and Natural History Museum. ...18 KB (2,738 words) - 17:14, 29 September 2023
- added further evidence to the model of the history of the biosphere as one ... Thomas Jefferson, well-versed in the natural sciences, suggested to ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Extinction has occurred throughout the history of living organisms ... While extinction is an inherent feature of the history of life, there ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 06:16, 13 September 2023
- painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in ... He was soon apprenticed to a Leiden history painter, Jacob van Swanenburgh ...23 KB (3,470 words) - 03:58, 8 December 2022
- of the president and vice president), the Museum of Natural History, the Salvo ... economic and financial crisis in recent history, which developed mostly ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- Lunar Highlands near Descartes Crater (National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.)]] Feldspar is the name of a group of rock-forming ...5 KB (690 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- us to gain a sense of the Earth's history, including tectonic processes ... the geochemistry and phase relations of natural or synthetic materials at ...5 KB (724 words) - 02:53, 24 November 2022
- Library, opened in 2004, is devoted to the natural sciences, functioning as ... those of the associated University Museum) and a library of 20,000 ...19 KB (2,825 words) - 22:33, 23 June 2023
- to be a definitive moment in the history of science. Wilberforce Timeline"] Natural History Museum, Retrieved January ...12 KB (1,800 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- Ewha holds many firsts in Korean history: Korea's first female ... departments of strength in engineering and natural science programs. ...11 KB (1,562 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- influential works on the philosophy and history of science, and of biology ... with modification) but not the process of natural selection, and those that ...30 KB (4,364 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- == History == Archaeological evidence shows that dyeing has been carried ... including vat dyes (similar to the ancient natural dyes) and modern synthetic ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- some species, can result in production of natural toxins, depletion of dissolved ... are a paraphyletic group, rather than a natural (monophyletic) group, and ...14 KB (1,913 words) - 09:15, 15 January 2023
- scenes. After she encouraged the Brooklyn Museum to display his works along ... His work gained wider recognition when the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- == History == [[Image:Plan of Tashkent 1865.JPG|right|thumb|250px|An ... for export earnings, along with gold, natural gas, and oil. Uzbekistan ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- == History == Shaanxi, together with its capital city of Xi'an ... One of the most devastating earthquakes in history occurred near Hua ...15 KB (2,046 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- October to March. Qatar has limited natural fresh water resources and ... == History == [[Image:Souk_Waqif.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Souq Waqif.]] ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- Tien Shan range, is known for its stunning natural beauty which is not lost ... beginning about 2000 B.C.E. Kyrgyz history dates to 201 B.C.E. ...16 KB (2,289 words) - 02:47, 8 March 2023
- 600 treasured pieces in the Topkapi Palace Museum. Muslims believe that these ... from the supernatural and affecting the natural. The manifestation of this ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- earliest and most developed in Peru's history, pre-dating the Inca by ... World Heritage Site in 1985. In 2006 a museum displaying relics from the ...15 KB (2,387 words) - 00:46, 5 December 2023
- the eastern part of the park and features natural gardens of creosote bush ... The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is one of the most visited attractions ...22 KB (3,316 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- their alkaloid content and used throughout history (NHM 2008). Important drug ... * Natural History Museum (NHM), London. 2008. [http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research ...13 KB (1,852 words) - 15:08, 27 April 2023
- University in 1847 where he founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology in ... while there he extended his knowledge of natural history, especially of botany ...18 KB (2,730 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
- popular music, renowned for its beauty, history, and acoustics. Carnegie ... established in 1986, and the Rose Museum, which opened in 1991. ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 00:35, 29 November 2023
- treasures has meant that the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is the only place ... modernity. Egypt can be likened to an open museum with monuments of the different ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- island has played a very large role in the history of Scottish and Celtic Christianity ... Ì or Idhe. Known for its tranquility and natural beauty, Iona is a popular ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 11:11, 6 March 2024
- == History == 1920s. His car, still in the Mohenjo-daro museum, shows his presence, struggle ...14 KB (2,047 words) - 19:32, 9 November 2022
- calculus, astronomy, mathematics, and natural science, in addition to ... is operated as a house museum as part of the Barton Center for Diabetes ...14 KB (2,285 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- tourists visiting the varied and unique natural features of Tanzania and ... Dar es Salaam is located on a massive natural harbor on the Eastern Indian ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
- Earth's history was viewed as the result of an accumulation of ... ===Cuvier and the natural theologians=== The leading scientific proponent ...15 KB (2,089 words) - 17:51, 30 November 2023
- reason, living on paulownia trees, its natural habitat, and eating only ... signifying the beginning of a new era in history. It is said that "they ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 17:17, 26 March 2024
- skeletons can be found at the Natural History Museum in Dublin. ... Gould, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History. New York: W. W. Norton. ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 18:59, 7 February 2023
- mouth of caves near the streams. His main natural enemies included the Giant ... and change. Philadelphia, PA: University Museum Dept. of Anthropology, University ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- human face to a dark chapter in American history—the Great Depression. Her ... direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that ...14 KB (2,023 words) - 17:26, 30 January 2024
- Tongdosa is not only a temple, but a museum, housing more than 800 designated ... pagodas and stone lanterns in a peaceful natural setting remind visitors ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- European explorers were preceded by a long history of monumental carving, particularly ... is any animal, plant, or other object, natural or supernatural, which provides ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- and known especially for depicting natural scenes of mothers with their ... her Torero and Young Girl. Still, her natural style was not accepted by ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 16:00, 7 November 2022
- Arabians in discussions of mathematics and natural science. He was the author ... to Adelard’s contributions to the history of science. Recently scholars ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and color. On the contrary ... The Guggenheim Museum's online article on De Stijl summarizes ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- Isaiah 1:8), cucumbers are mentioned and history traces their first use over ... needed, given the acceptability of the natural color of pickles, but can ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 22:47, 28 March 2023
- preserve to protect the region's natural environment, the Adirondack ... and opening celebration of Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks ...25 KB (3,782 words) - 05:58, 15 June 2023
- pigment lapis lazuli, also called natural ultramarine, so abundantly ... no object is ever seen entirely in its natural color; likewise shadows ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- reticent around adults, while displaying a natural affinity for children. Her ... Potter's natural artistic talent was encouraged by her father ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:21, 26 September 2023
- *Musée des Beaux-Arts, fine arts museum (located near the Cathedral ... *Le Grenier de l'Histoire Musée, history museum specializing ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
