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- Bid for French cuisine as UNESCO heritage to flop: official
- PARIS AFP — France's bid, backed by famous chefs, to have its cuisine added to UNESCO's list of world cultural treasures is likely to flop, a representative from the UN body said Saturday. "There is no category at UNESCO for gastronomy," said Cherif Khaznadar, president of the UNESCO assembly...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- Ethiopia's famed Axum obelisk put up at original site
- AXUM, Ethiopia AFP — Ethiopia on Wednesday began work to relocate the famed Axum obelisk at its original site, seven decades after the 1,700-year-old treasure was removed by Italian troops, a UN expert said. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation UNESCO has overseen a multi-million-dollar operation to restore...
- Research articles 2008-06-04
- France returns stolen treasures to Burkina Faso: minister
- OUAGADOUGOU AFP — France has returned to Burkina Faso a haul of stolen archaeological treasures discovered in a northern French port, the Burkinabe culture minister told AFP Friday. Filippe Sawadogo said 262 items of "national archaeological and cultural significance" to the landlocked west African nation were returned via the...
- Research articles 2008-04-18
- Darwin's original theory of evolution goes online
- LONDON AFP — The original version of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was published online Thursday among a "treasure trove" of the scientist's papers, photographs and other documents. Some 20,000 items contained in around 90,000 images were published on the Internet, according to a spokesman for Cambridge University, the...
- Research articles 2008-04-17
- Glenn Tinder, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts, is an undervalued treasure.(While We're At It)(Liberty: Rethinking an Imperiled Ideal)(Book review)
- Glenn Tinder, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts, is an undervalued treasure. He has published with some regularity in these pages, and his 1986 book, Political Thinking: The Perennial Questions, is a standard reference deserving of its reputation as a classic. Yet...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Iraq freedom worth cost, minister says as US toll nears 4000
- WASHINGTON AFP — Efforts to defeat terrorism in Iraq have been worth the high cost in US and Iraqi blood and treasure, the country's top security official said Sunday, as American military deaths there neared 4,000. "This war is well worth fighting," Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie told...
- Research articles 2008-03-23
- US court ruling keeps location of shipwreck treasure secret
- WASHINGTON AFP — US treasure hunters who allegedly extracted rich spoils from a sunken wreck in Spanish waters hailed three court rulings Wednesday that protect the secret location of their find. The legal dispute began in May last year when Odyssey Marine Exploration announced that it had found half...
- Research articles 2008-03-12
- Editorial: Grand Canyon
- The Senate will consider a bill today that is needed to prevent mining right next door to one of the country's natural treasures, the Grand Canyon. The Forest Service foolishly approved a permit for a British company to explore for uranium just outside the borders of Grand Canyon National Park,...
- Research articles 2008-03-12
- GBP5m Donation Will Open The Bodleian Library's Collections.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-7 March 2008-BLACKWELL'S: GBP5m Donation Will Open The Bodleian Library's CollectionsC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06032008 Oxford- - The largest single cash donation ever made to a university library in the UK has been given to the Bodleian Library,...
- Research articles 2008-03-07
- Protection of arts and antiquities during wartime: examining the past and preparing for the future
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shortly we will be fighting our way across the Continent of Europe in battles designed to preserve our civilization. Inevitably, in the path of our advance will be found historical monuments and cultural centers that symbolize to the world all that we are fighting to preserve. It...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Ode to endangered books in Doris Lessing's Nobel lecture
- STOCKHOLM AFP — British novelist and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing hailed the importance of books in her Nobel lecture Friday, juxtaposing poor countries' thirst for knowledge to a lack of interest shown by the young in rich countries. The 88-year-old author was too ill to travel to Stockholm for...
- Research articles 2007-12-07
- The Osbournes preparing to auction off treasure trove
- LOS ANGELES AFP — A full-length black satin cape and a battered quad-bike that nearly took its owner's life are among the weird and wonderful items being auctioned off by rock-star Ozzy Osbourne this week. A treasure trove of furniture, art and memorabilia belonging to Black Sabbath front-man Osbourne,...
- Research articles 2007-11-28
- US judge tells treasure hunters to reach deal with Spain
- MIAMI AFP — A US judge has told attorneys from Odyssey Marine and Spain to work out a deal so the deep-sea explorers can confidentially reveal the location of a shipwreck in the Atlantic from which it recovered a massive treasure. The Florida-based company insists the shipwreck is located...
- Research articles 2007-11-27
- Archaeologist uncovers 11,000-year-old artefacts in Syria
- DAMASCUS AFP — Deep in the heart of northern Syria, close to the banks of the Euphrates River, archaeologists have uncovered a series of startling 11,000-year-old wall paintings and artefacts. "The wall paintings date back to the 9th millennium BC. They were discovered last month on the wall of...
- Research articles 2007-10-22
- Danish national treasure stolen
- COPENHAGEN AFP — One of Denmark's national treasures, a set of two horns made in the 1800s, was stolen in the early hours of Monday, Danish police said. Called "Guldhornene" in Danish, or the Golden Horns, the pieces are silver replicas of two original gold horns made in 400...
- Research articles 2007-09-17
- Treasure hunt strikes gold at Greek ex-royal estate
- TATOI, Greece AFP — Archaeologists searching the former royal estate outside Athens have discovered a treasure trove of art and antiquities, whose fate was unknown since ex-king Constantine fled Greece four decades ago. More than 200 ancient items and 300 paintings were found inside sealed containers in a royal...
- Research articles 2007-06-13
- Spanish probe claims US firm lied about treasure wreck
- MADRID AFP — A Spanish probe into a treasure-laden shipwreck discovered by a US company has found the firm lied about its location, which is in the Mediterranean and not the Atlantic, a newspaper said Thursday. The Odyssey deep-sea explorer company on May 18 announced the discovery of the...
- Research articles 2007-06-07
- Prep basketball classic getting an assist from Butler
- Like most men, Rasual Butler is not into mushiness.But he knows and appreciates and, yes, even treasures the role Charles "Shoob'' Monroe played in making him a basketball success.Tonight at Ben Franklin High, Broad and Green streets, with games at 6 freshmen, 7:30 sophomores and 9 juniors, most of the...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Looters plunder Peru's antique treasures
- LIMA AFP — Smugglers are sapping Peru's ancient heritage, with statues, gold finery and other treasures stolen to meet orders on the Internet or sold on the street, Peruvian and international authorities said. Peru is the country worst hit in the region by thefts of ancient objects -- far...
- Research articles 2007-03-31
- Smugglers target the ancient treasures of Yemen
- SANAA AFP — Yemen is the heir to ancient civilisations including the Biblical land of Sheba, and hardly a month goes by without the authorities foiling yet another attempt to smuggle antiquities out of the country. The scourge is attributed to factors ranging from the lack of safeguards to...
- Research articles 2007-03-25
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