Focuses on the trend of private owners selling historic artifacts on commercial markets at prices unreached by the U.S. National Park Service. Factors attributed to the increase of competition over scarce historical items; Description of the emergency acquisition fund pr...
The Brian De Palma-directed film, starring a young Robert De Niro as a New Yorker dealing with the draft, is the first movie to receive an X rating, doing so for its sexually explicit content. June 1972:Deep Throat The infamous movie is one of the first porn flicks to co-opt the X ...
“There is no question in the minds of any of us, but that our city needs a system of sewerage. The proper disposal of sewage is one of the great questions of our age. Our city is favorably situated, being so near the ocean, for sewage disposal. It has already been surveyed for the...
See all videos for this article The expedition arrived at theMandanandHidatsavillages near present-dayBismarck,North Dakota, and constructedFort Mandanin which to spend the winter. The captains prepared maps,artifacts, mineral samples, plant specimens, and papers to send back in the spring. On Apr...
for long periods. They can be recovered from the surfaces of pots and stone tools and are often the only way to identify certainfoodremains, such as potatoes. By identifying and quantifying the pollen, phytoliths, and starch grains found in archaeological sediments and onartifacts, an ...
what became his life’s passion when he found his first artifacts – flint chips and arrow points – while woodchuck hunting near Otter Creek in Barre in 1956. He was recognized as a Research Fellow of the Rochester Museum and the NYS Archeological Association for his contributions to the ...
Luxury antique auction house Bonhamshas put together a special collection—a trove of artifacts from the history of science. The auction, set for October 22nd in New York, is expected to pull down millions. Up to bid is everything from significant scientific documents, curiosities from some of...
Here, there are numerous column capitals, a sarcophagus, and other artifacts lying in the parched grass beneath palms where the resident cats and lizards doze and scurry. As I walked, I could almost hear the crowds of the market around me, the sounds of the merchants selling their wares. ...
Spurred by a building boom, archaeologists are plumbing the deep past of one of Europe’s oldest capitals.
Artifacts,Buffalo History,Collections,Exhibits,Historical Trivia,Library,Museum Staff,Researchand taggedBooks,Buffalo,buffalo history,Collection,entertainment,library,music,pop-culture,researchonApril 2, 2017.1 Comment Spotlight Artifact: Eliza Graves Quilt ...