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...century's end, Portuguese traders were being eclipsed by the Dutch, English and Spanish. But in many ways, the Western world's awareness of, and infatuation with, all things Asian - from spices to art - can be traced to the early Portuguese merchants and explorers. Now a new museum in Lisbon attempts to reflect the cultural legacy of those pioneering days...
...Museu do Oriente (Museum of the Orient) was opened in May by Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva and Prime Minister José Sócrates. In planning for nearly two decades, the $46.6 million facility was set up by the Fundação Oriente (Orient Foundation) - a Portuguese cultural organization established in the former colony of Macau in 1988 - and showcases a vast array of Asian artifacts on five floors in a magnificent Art Deco building along the Lisbon waterfront at Alcãntara...
Before they were ubiquitous in contemporary little girl culture - and across the intellectual spectrum, from 15th century tapestries now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to transporting Doogie Howser in the latest Harold & Kumar installment - rumors of unicorns were passed across the continents, and through the centuries, in something akin to an enormous game of telephone...
...mall features all the usual big-box stores but also a handful of cafés, bars and restaurants with floor-to-ceiling views onto the decommissioned Royal Yacht Britannia, www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk. Moored outside, the spotless vessel, with its gleaming engine room (but surprisingly modest royal apartments) is now a museum, harking back to an earlier age of travel and empire. But Leith doesn't worry too much about the past these days. It's pulling away from its gritty history and going full steam ahead...
...when I started this race, I intended to win back the White House and make sure we have a President who puts our country back on the path to peace, prosperity and progress," Clinton told the crowd of several thousand gathered at Washington's National Building Museum. "And that's exactly what we're going to do, by ensuring that Barack Obama walks through the doors of the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2009." The door swung shut behind Miller and Mahoney...