Sentences with phrase «history out of the museums»

In spite of Basque pressures for independence, in spite of ETA, Spain remains a charming country, with a ceremonial sense of itself that brings the Old World up to date and takes history out of the museums and puts it squarely in the streets.

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Some museums have pushed a mission to educate the public about the evolution of the penal system, but there has been criticism that, depending on the institution, the «history» is sanitized, leaving out abuse of prisoners and other unsavory aspects of the criminal justice system.
Gourevitch concludes: «One way history is doomed to repetition at the Holocaust museum is that day in and day out, year after year, the videos of the Einsatzgruppen murders will play over and over.
ahhhh... still a bunch of nonsense... boy I'll bet you thought that was so great when you put it together... check out the findings of the Hubble telescope and what they mean and then go to NYC and visit the Museum of Natural History... pretty much proves the falseness of your whole god story..
Top of the league table was the Eden Project in Cornwall, which scored 99 points out of a possible 150 for its freshly prepared and locally sourced food, while in last place were Brighton Pier and the Natural History Museum in London, the most popular visitor attraction in Britain, which both scored a paltry 22 points.
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This weekend's picks include an «owl prowl» at Crowder County Park in Apex, immersion in international art at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, a bird identification 101 program in Raleigh, a performance and history lesson about the evolution of the horn at Duke Gardens in Durham, and Carolina Parent's 2018 Summer, Track - Out and Residential Camp Fair at Embassy Suites in Cary.
This week, you and your child can learn what it was like to travel to the Old Mill at Historic Yates Mill County Park in Raleigh, find out about flying machines of the past and make a kite at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, make ecofriendly art from repurposed materials at the Irwin R. Holmes Sr..
Now, after the two years needed to green the Drive's former northbound lanes and to create a campus uniting the Field Museum of Natural History, the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, it is possible to grasp what a boon the $ 110 million relocation project has turned out to be for Daniel Burnham's vision of a waterfront devoted to recreation and culture.
As it turned out, I had previously booked my son's birthday party for the following day at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (he's quite the dinosaur enthusiast).
We checked out a preview of the Extreme Mammals Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History and were astounded by the diversity of mammals on our earth.
«Look for exhibits that engages all of their senses,» says Dr. Ludwig, who suggests checking out science - based or living history museums near you for interactive and educational components geared toward kids.
Evalyn Gates, CEO of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, pointed out that many different kinds of organizations sponsored this march, showing how science is woven deeply into the fabric of society.
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«This is borne out by the fact that Hesperonis — discovered by Othniel Charles Marsh of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History — which is a near relative of modern birds that still retains teeth and the most primitive stem avian with a modernized beak in the form of fused, elongate premaxillae, also possesses a modern bird palatine bone,» he said.
Stringer, of the British Natural History Museum, is best known as a founding theorist of the so - called «out of Africa» theory, which contends that modern humans evolved in Africa before radiating around the globe.
«Pull out the genitalia,» says Maxi Polihronakis, a beetle taxonomist at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, «and often everything becomes clear.»
It definitively would have stood out from the herd during the Late Cretaceous,» said lead author Dr. Michael Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
To find out, she and a colleague analyzed the lions» jaws and teeth, as well as those of a third human eater from Zambia — all stored at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.
In one of their most challenging human DNA projects to date — no British individual this old has ever had their genome sequenced — the Natural History Museum's ancient DNA lab's Professor Ian Barnes and Dr Selina Brace carried out the first ever full reading of Cheddar Man's DNA.
In a prepared statement Out of Africa theorist Christopher B. Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London said «although I have never ruled out the possibility of interbreeding, I have considered this to have been small and insignificant in the bigger picture of our evolution — for example, the results of isolated interbreeding events could easily have been lost in the intervening millennOut of Africa theorist Christopher B. Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London said «although I have never ruled out the possibility of interbreeding, I have considered this to have been small and insignificant in the bigger picture of our evolution — for example, the results of isolated interbreeding events could easily have been lost in the intervening millennout the possibility of interbreeding, I have considered this to have been small and insignificant in the bigger picture of our evolution — for example, the results of isolated interbreeding events could easily have been lost in the intervening millennia.
Alka Agrawal found out all about SI's Fellowship programmes for GrantsNet, and she spoke to current Molecular Evolution Fellow Eric Roalson about his research at the National Museum of Natural History.
«There undoubtedly are many more genes involved in these pathways and these will need to be sorted out,» says Joel Cracraft, an evolutionary biologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Unfortunately, to puzzle out the new wasp's lifestyle, the researchers could only rely on specimens collected back in 1985, which had spent the past few decades stored in the collections of the Natural History Museum of London before being loaned to the Frost Museum at Penn State for research.
Since 1998, Kennewick has been stored out of view, but available for study, at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, Washington.
At the Natural History Museum in London, for example, Chris Stringer, an expert on modern human origins, continues to lean toward a terrestrial migration route out of Africa.
Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, says the new species could represent «a pre-heidelbergensis, post-erectus dispersal» out of Africa «that we haven't picked up yet.»
The only complete specimen in the world, she has made her first outing in Western Europe to be the centrepiece of an exhibition called Mammoths: Ice Age Giants, at London's Natural History Museum (NHM).
«Whatever wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs was a lot more complicated than a single hammer blow from an asteroid,» says Norman MacLeod of London's Natural History Museum, who is one of the catastrophists» leading opponents.
George Burgess of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville points out that the calculation required numerous assumptions, including a single weight estimate for all sharks.
To find out whether the bodies themselves could shed some light on the debate, a team led by archaeologist Douglas Kennett of Pennsylvania State University in State College analyzed their remains, found in room 33 of the Pueblo Bonito complex and now stored at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, using DNA sequencing.
«There is a lot of attention being focused on the science march but it isn't all anger out there,» says coral biologist Nancy Knowlton of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., a leader of the event, which was planned long before the science march materialized earlier this year.
The only two populations currently present, will not be able to spread out or adapt to the changes in time,» explains Miguel Araújo, a researcher with the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, and with the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen.
The afterword of the new report, written by curators of astrophysics from the American Museum of Natural History, argues that «life is almost certainly out there somewhere beyond the surface of the Earth....
The research was carried out by Dr Greg Edgecombe and Dr Xiaoya Ma of the Natural History Museum and Professor Nicholas Strausfeld of the University of Arizona, who are leading exponents of neuropalaeontology - a budding field focusing on ancient fossil brains.
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Give me an ancient church, a historic building, an antique museum or gallery, a scenic garden or a panoramic promenade ~ if it's a place of beauty or history in a new town, you can guarantee I will want to check it out.
For accessories, Kate wore Simone Rocha drop earrings (also sold out, but a similar floral version is still on sale) and a beige pair of the wavy Prada heels she wore last week to the Natural History Museum.
As it turned out, I had previously booked my son's birthday party for the following day at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (he's quite the dinosaur enthusiast).
This weekend, I'm looking forward to some much needed down time for work catch up (still working on that editorial assistant job description), hanging out with a few good friends who are coming into town and hopping to a couple museums (namely the American Museum of Natural History and the Met) to wander around aimlessly.
Skip the museums: While there is an abundance of history to explore in the city, the most unique experiences can be found by opting out of traditional museums and getting your hands a little dirty, literally!
For an illuminating glimpse of Vegas history, check out the Neon Museum — or if you're into something a little kitschier, visit the Liberace Museum.
Check out the American Museum of Natural History....
Some of the best museums that you need to check out are the Chicago History Museum, the DuSable Museum of African American History, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum, and the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
The two boys are cute moppets (Oakes Fegley, pictured below) but don't have much to do but hide out for days in the American Museum of Natural History dodging adults in a wholly unbelievable way.
There is never an explanation for his sudden success, but suffice it to say he doesn't hang out much at the Museum of Natural History any more.
Kids running away In «The Royal Tenanbaums,» young Margot and Richie Tenenbaum run away at the beginning of the film, hiding out in the Museum of Natural History.
He eventually discovers that the tablet of Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek) is running out of power, and the only person who knows how to restore its power is his father Merenkahre (Sir Ben Kingsley), of whom there is a figure in the London Museum of Natural History.
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She escapes and goes on an adventure in New York, first seeking out Lillian, then finding herself in the Museum of Natural History.
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