Search results for "Wax museum" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • together with Benguela) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton ... a number of sights, including a Military Museum, the National Anthropological ...
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  • anniversary of Qingdao Beer. Qingdao Beer Museum, Qingdao city, Shandong province ... *Dalby, Andrew. The Story of Bacchus. London: British Museum Press ...
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  • Land of the Head-Hunters to the American Museum of Natural History. He was ... Curtis made over 10,000 wax cylinder recordings of native languages ...
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  • April 14, 2008 | publisher=Royal British Columbia Museum ... has the Emily Carr House, Royal London Wax Museum, Victoria Bug Zoo, and ...
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  • Rome, children played with dolls made of wax or terracotta: sticks, bows ... called china), bisque, celluloid, and wax. Often, people will make dolls ...
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  • | caption = Chief Dan George, Royal London Wax Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | birthdate = 1899|07|24 | birthplace = Tsleil-Waututh ...
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  • materials such as plaster of Paris, wax, clay and even plasticine ... for Queen Victoria's visit to the British Museum. ==Styles== ...
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  • once. In the 1880s, a redesigned model using wax-coated cardboard cylinders ... is a Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum in the town of Edison. ...
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  • viscous, and the longest chains are paraffin wax. In its naturally occurring ... *Wax, used in the packaging of frozen foods, among others. ...
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  • than one year without eating and a slick of wax seals in water (Angier 1990). ... * Australian Museum (AM). 2003. [http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/scorpions ...
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  • eastern Baltic area, a source of timber, wax, amber, resins, furs, even ... Hamburg and Bremen (home of the Hanseatic Museum) continue to use "Hanse ...
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  • time, thus it was "The Johnson's Wax Program, with Fibber McGee ... William Paley was a buyer of art, and a backer of New York's ...
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  • 19th century. See below.) In a Nantucket museum, there is a jawbone of a ... water is brought through the organ and the wax is solidified. The increase ...
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  • in 1906, it is now stored in a calligraphy museum in Tokyo, Japan. ... *Hot wax dye transfer is used for batik dye printing of fabrics and ...
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  • examples of jewelry as art can be seen in museum displays, and paintings. ... housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. [https://www.si.edu/spotlight/hope ...
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  • to avoid dirtying the kimono. First, a wax or oil substance, called bintsuke ... * The Peabody Essex Museum (ed.). Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile ...
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  • from a sheep bone, exists in the Leeds City Museum. Oxford Companion ... the hole they didn't want to use with wax. In later years, the right ...
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  • could not decode a wooden tablet covered in wax, she ordered them to clear ... and other objects collected in the local museum, founded by Stamatakis in ...
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  • it not also for the existence of a lifelike wax bust and Haydn's death ... manuscript by Haydn, in the British Museum, from a biography of Haydn ...
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  • have faces of painted plaster, but also of wax, ivory, porcelain and terracotta ... against the Moorish invaders, now in a museum, Carrión de los Condes.]] ...
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  • with one single strain of silk with a bit of wax attached to the center of ... [http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/compass2.html ...
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  • See also Klang Bell (Malaysia, 2 c. BC) of the British Museum collection. ... Small bells were originally made with the lost wax process but large ...
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  • became fashionable and are now jewel-like museum pieces. Such pretty trinkets ... ca. 1900-1975] Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian ...
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  • was a waxwork of him in Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. His doctor advised him not to travel to London to be knighted, and his wife later received ...
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  • metal casting, modeling with clay and bee's wax. * Lacquering: ... artist with work represented in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New ...
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  • and comprising three art museums: Prado Museum, the Reina Sofía Museum ... to the local history of Madrid), the Wax Museum of Madrid, the Railway ...
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  • height: 10.8 cm (4​1⁄4 in.). National Museum, New Delhi, India]] ... extensively on leaves, bark, wood, cloth, wax, animal skins, and other perishable ...
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  • the Old Kingdom, and they provided both honey and wax. Paul T. Nicholson ... [[image:Egypte louvre 316.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Louvre Museum Egyptian ...
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  • her genitals were dissected and cast in wax. Nelson Mandela formally requested ... a sizable group remain in the British Museum. The Benin bronzes then catalyzed ...
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  • to maintain records made official by using a wax seal imprinted with the ring ... the ruler. Vijayanagara Coins. Government Museum Chennai. Govindaraya S. Prabhu ...
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  • 978-0252081163). The sound quality on the wax cylinders and the synchronization ... The original is now displayed the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington ...
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