Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not the Fogg Art Museum acquires both of the groups of statuary which have graced the east facade of the Boston Post Office for the last 50 years will probably be determined by the decision of the Art Commission of the City of Boston as to whether or not it plans to keep one of the statues in Boston...
...Geography of Wheat", Professor Blanchard, Geology Museum...
...situation, however, is useful to ornithology. From the balcony Harold Lester Madison, acting director of Cleveland's Museum of Natural History, is getting data on the birds which migrate across the district and on the relation of atmospheric conditions to the height to which birds fly. But such usefulness cannot last very long, because birds somehow learn to avoid man-built obstacles...
...land of Acre," the Metropolitan Museum of Art has found better examples of 12th and 13th century A.D. war, commercial and household goods than it had been able to find in Europe, where such things have been destroyed, lost or remodeled. Palestine, in those bleak centuries, was a European province. Leading crusaders lived luxuriously and busily. When the Mohammedans finally drove them out, their goods were abandoned. Looters could not find them all. Hence the Metropolitan Museum's delvers made rich cultural finds at the isolated fortress of Montfort, old headquarters of the Hospitalers of Our Lady...
...bale of cotton was presented last week to the Bremen museum. No ordinary bale of cotton, this! It cost the Bremen Cotton Exchange about $3,500 although cotton usually costs about $124.80 per bale in Berlin.* This bale was the first ever to have crossed the Atlantic in the air. It was part of the Graf Zeppelin's cargo...