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While Korea's ceramic tradition is as impressive as China's, the smaller country naturally has a more monolithic tradition. The exhibit creates a coherent chronology by dividing the tradition into its four historical periods: the Three Kingdoms Period (57 B.C.A.D. 668), the United Silla Period (668-935), the Koryo Dynasty (918-1392) and the Choson Dynasty...
...best example of a shape-changing "active optics" mirror is the one in the European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope in La Silla, Chile. Pistons attached to the thin mirror can flex it in and out until a star is as focused as possible. The NTT has already produced some of the sharpest images ever taken from the ground. A comparable system will be used in other projects, including the giant Keck Telescope under construction atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii...
Funeral ornaments dating back to the Old Silla dynasty (5th-6th century A.D.) display a barbaric splendor never before found in East Asia. Discovered amidst a stash of weapons and earthenware, a crown glitters with spangles of gold and jade that adorn its antler-like shafts. This animal symbolism, some historians believe, attests to the shamanistic beliefs of the early Koreans and suggests that they had more in common with the nomadic horsemen of the Siberian steppes than with their Chinese neighbors...
...joint British-Australian group, which have started building three 146-to 150-inch telescopes in southern latitudes this year. A U.S. telescope costing about $10 million will rise at Cerro Tololo in the Chilean Andes, 300 miles north of Santiago. A European instrument will be placed on nearby La Silla Mountain. In Australia, a $12.3 million instrument is slated for Siding Spring Mountain, 200 miles from Sydney...
...Korean art. Out of the tombs have come such works as the stoneware Mounted Horseman, wearing a noble's peaked cap and leather armor of the 5th-6th century. Even more impressive is the antlerlike gold crown ornamented with jade found in a tomb of the Old Silla dynasty (57 B.C.-668 A.D.), whose hardy kingdom in Southeast Korea gradually extended its sway over the whole peninsula. With its similarity to the animal motifs of the Scythians, it suggests that early Koreans had more in common with the nomadic horsemen than with China...