Cultural Institutions And Parks

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Smithsonian Human Evolution

AP News 2 days ago

A wall comparing skulls of early humans is seen inside the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Copyright 2010 AP News

Smithsonian opens $21M human evolution hall

AP Features 2 days ago

Smithsonian's Natural History museum opens $21 million permanent exhibit on human evolution The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is opening a new permanent exhibit exploring human evolution over 6 million years. The nearly $21 million Hall of Human Origins opens Wednesday. ...

China zoo shut amid tiger parts harvest allegation

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

A zoo in northeastern China has been shut after a spate of Siberian tiger deaths as reports Wednesday said dozens of the dead animals may have been used to make a virility tonic. China's forestry ministry has ordered the zoo in the ...

Puck in gold-medal game heads to Hall of Fame

AP News 3 days ago

Sidney Crosby's gold-medal puck going to Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto after a Swiss detour The gold-medal puck is going to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, after a brief detour to Switzerland. Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal for ...

Irate Brazil artist adds randy bulls to CowParade art exhibit

AFP Global Edition 3 days ago

A Brazilian artist launched a subversive protest against the popular "CowParade" travelling art exhibit, which he deemed an affront to his country's homegrown art scene. The popular CowParade urban art display brings dozens of brightly-coloured life-sized resin cows to cities around the ...

NYC art exhibit includes nude pair standing still

AP News 3 days ago

Nude performance art causes some discomfort at NYC retrospective of performance artist's work Laurence Lallier slipped carefully between two naked women facing each other in a narrow doorway at the Museum of Modern Art. "I didn't want to step on their feet," ...

BOMBS AWAY: AS LONG AS IT'S TO SEED PARK

Las Vegas Sun 3 days ago

Harvest of native plantsto yield seeds to sow in a new play area near Laughlin The National Park Service is planning to bomb a new park near Laughlin. Seed bomb, that is. The agency is building a park complex on land south ...

3 tigers very ill at Chinese zoo where 11 starved

AP News 3 days ago

Rush is on to save 3 sick Siberian tigers at Chinese zoo where 11 starved to death Zookeepers are scrambling to save three seriously ill Siberian tigers at a cash-strapped zoo in northeastern China where 11 of the big cats starved to ...

Art Heist Mystery

AP News 4 days ago

In this Thursday, March 11, 2010 photo, a plaque marks the empty frame from which thieves cut Rembrandt's "The storm on the Sea of Galilee," which remains on display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The painting was one of ...

Sargent, Velazquez reunited at the Prado

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

In a first, the Prado is to display John Singer Sargent?s "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" from Tuesday beside the painting which inspired it -- Diego Velazquez's "Las Meninas". Singer's painting, one of the top draws at Boston's Museum of Fine ...

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