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  • A computer museum is a museum devoted to the preservation, education ... independent museums. The Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, California ...
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  • motive" of using his spare time to search for human ancestors (Gould ... commanded by army sergeants—found on the island of Java, along the Solo River ...
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  • erectus had been found on the Indonesian island of Java in 1891 by Eugene ... these are curated at the American Museum of Natural History (NYC) ...
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  • is based on date retrieved from a search for publications located ... 1959-1973, published by the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York ...
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  • Lake Michigan, sailing around Manitoulin Island to enter Lake Michigan through ... *Beaver Island *North Manitou Island *South Manitou Island ...
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  • Deportees, and the Hall of Names. The main museum is the largest devoted to ... memorial site, which houses an historical museum of the Holocaust, facilities ...
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  • found herself in a crisis. Rhodes, a Greek island at the Aegean Sea, had been ... Today, on the walls of the small museum building next to the site ...
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  • Baffin Island (Inuit name, Qikiqtaaluk), Île de Baffin Arctic Archipelago. It is the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest ...
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  • Easter Island, known in the native language as "Rapa Nui" ... and 1290 miles (2075km) east of Pitcairn Island, Easter Island is one of ...
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  • Ermines also were brought to Terschelling Island to control water voles (Arvicola ... New Zealand offshore islands unaided. Maud Island which is 900 meters off of ...
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  • east African coast to Kenya, the Comoro Island and Madagascar, seemingly ... curator at East London's small museum, to see if she wanted to ...
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  • then took an executive job with the Rock Island Railroad in Des Moines, Iowa ... on November 2, 1929 at Curtiss Field, Long Island, New York for the mutual ...
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  • The Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island (The Mid-Manhattan Library ... the research collections) allow users to search the library's holdings ...
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  • a poorly paid job as the curator of a museum. In 1947, he organized the ... In 1947 Leakey and his wife began excavations on Rusinga Island, and ...
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  • is now on display at the National Motor Museum in Hampshire, England, her ... up now on track…Rather close to Peel Island…Tramping like mad…er… ...
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  • Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll having a coastline ... Department of the Interior. Access to the island is restricted, and all current ...
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  • as far north as Trinidad, the southernmost island in the Caribbean. ... in the Amazon basin; an 1849 British Museum Catalogue of Snakes lists ...
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  • of Buddhism, Jogye Buddhism stresses a search for inner peace through meditation ... constancy and self-sufficiency. The search for one's True Nature ...
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  • until he found a position at the front desk of the Museum of Modern ... At age 40, O'Hara was killed in an accident on Fire Island in ...
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  • to create a new society on a distant, tropical island Louis Becke, ... " in this instance on a Pacific Island. Edward Said, Culture and ...
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  • one-and-a-half-year stay on the Marquesan island of Fatu Hiva in 1937-1938. ... there, they decided to cross over the island's mountainous interior ...
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  • in Japan from a trading post on the small island of Dejima, separated from ... of ships visiting Japanese shores in search of food and water, and led ...
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  • are usually found near continental and island slopes from the North Atlantic ... a tentacled sea monster as large as an island capable of engulfing and ...
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  • Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island ... Horror and Others, and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions) of his ...
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  • to the Portuguese sugar plantations on the island of Sáo Tomé in the Gulf ... *Arguin Island 1445 - Feb. 5, 1633 Portuguese rule (Arguim). ...
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  • the Dromaius genus, such as the Kangaroo Island emu (Dromaius baudinianus ... of the emu in arid regions. The Kangaroo Island emu, a separate species, ...
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  • Mount Tambora (or Tomboro) is an active stratovolcano on Sumbawa island ... The explosion was heard on Sumatra island (more than 2,000 km or 1 ...
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  • *Chami, F. A. 1999. “The Early Iron Age on Mafia island and its ... *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4970452.stm BBC News: Search ...
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  • wide. A narrow isthmus connects the former island of Pharos with the city center ... Maryut, and good anchorage provided by the island of Pharos. An Egyptian townlet ...
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  • Continuing to the south of Victoria Island, the ship cleared the Arctic ... afterwards. His body was never found. The search for Amundsen was called off ...
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  • 1945) was the United States capture of the island of Iwo Jima from Japan, producing ... The Japanese positions on the island were heavily fortified, with ...
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  • Dakar Grand Mosque, built in 1964; Gorée Island, a World Heritage Site because ... In 1444, the Portuguese arrived on the island of Gorée and founded ...
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  • #039;s primary city for most of the island's history since medieval ... Dublin Airport is the busiest airport on the island. == Demographics == ...
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  • * Aphaea - an Athenian cultic form (related to the island of Aegina) ... troubled maid chanced to find the rocky island of Delos, which happened ...
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  • There is now a Cordell Hull Museum located near his birthplace in ... not think that Morgenthau would want the search for the ship to get into ...
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  • flow of immigrants, mostly men in search of adventure, increased the ... a ferry service to Lévis, and Orleans Island Bridge connects Quebec City ...
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  • had a grand palace on "a very large island" called Meroe, located ... *Clapp, Nicholas. Sheba: Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary ...
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  • reported killed by hunters on Vancouver Island (Novell and Jackson 2006 ... (Robinson et al. 2002). The Vancouver Island marmot, an endangered species ...
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  • parks and beaches located near Castle Island, in Charlestown and along ... Worcester, and south to Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly a third of Bostonians ...
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  • Haven and Branford, Connecticut on Long Island Sound, through the Connecticut ... from Greenfield, Massachusetts to Long Island Sound. The Sierra Club has ...
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  • in the West Indies and lived on the island of Hispaniola, where he took ... new series of expeditions to the south in search of the riches of the Inca ...
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  • firma," or the mainland, or any island. Condemned by the Queen of ... was born one day before Apollo on the island of Ortygia, and that she ...
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  • . In 1969, they wrapped the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art while ... Walk Ways (Tokyo and Holland) and Wrapped Island (South Pacific), neither ...
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  • the south. The eastern two thirds of the island of Taiwan is dominated by ... Taiwanese indigenous peoples settled the island of Taiwan around 6 ...
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  • Martin Frobisher's 1576 search for the Northwest Passage was ... Glimpses of an Arctic Past. (Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1995, ISBN ...
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  • the remaining artifacts at the Afghanistan museum have been destroyed. ... “non-dualistic” representations. The search for enlightenment “in the ...
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  • In search of adventure, the young Melville left his native Massachusetts ... where he lived among the natives of the island for several weeks. ...
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  • skeleton at the the Royal Tyrrell Museum at Drumheller, Alberta, Canada]] ... thumb|250px|Stegosaurus skeleton, Field Museum, Chicago.]] ...
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  • century, Aotearoa was used to refer to the North Island only. ... represents an end-point of a long chain of island-hopping voyages]] ...
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  • represent the original inhabitants of the island, called Araipadi and Elapadi ... Tamil adventurers invaded the island as far back as 100 B.C.E. ...
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