Word: museum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold jewelry never before shown outside Iraq. The find, which was made by Muzahim Mahmoud Hussein, head of the Iraqi team at Nimrud, has turned out to be, by all accounts, one of the most important in modern times. John Curtis, an archaeologist from the British Museum, describes the treasure of Nimrud as the most significant archaeological discovery since King Tutankhamen's tomb was uncovered in Egypt...
...Secret Service imported a two-inch-thick, 75-foot-long sheet of bulletproof glass to place in front of the National Museum for today's inauguration of Democracy Plaza in order to protect Bush, Colombian President Virgilio Barco and the others. Barco's life has been threatened by drug barons in his country...
...American Civil War forced the curtain higher. When the fighting began in 1861, Mathew Brady was the country's best-known photographer, an early specimen of the celebrity portraitist and a frank businessman whose New York City studio was located not far from P.T. Barnum's museum. Brady kept a second studio in Washington, and when the First Battle of Bull Run broke out just 25 miles from the capital, he rushed toward the lines with two vanloads of equipment. Amid the scramble of the Union retreat, all the plates from that first day's work were lost...
...editor Richard Lacayo, reporter-researchers Sidney Urquhart and Daniel Levy and assistants Denise Mei and Alex Sutton, under the direction of special-projects editor Donald Morrison. They sifted through tens of thousands of photos from the Time Inc. Magazines Picture Collection and other archives. They also solicited advice from museum curators and working photojournalists, particularly in compiling our list of history's ten most important news photos. You may not agree with those choices,* but we hope you will find them -- and the entire issue -- a lively visual history of the past 150 years, as well as a feast...
From top, left to right: (c) 1963 Bob Jackson, Sam Shere -- UPI/Bettmann, Bob Landry -- LIFE, NEIL ARMSTRONG -- NASA, JOE ROSENTHAL -- AP, ALFRED EISENSTAEDT -- LIFE, ED CLARK -- LIFE, DAVID BURNETT -- CONTACT PRESS IMAGES, J.R. EYERMAN -- LIFE, DOROTHEA LANGE -- THE OAKLAND MUSEUM, THE CITY OF OAKLAND, JOSEPH LOUW -- LIFE