time as an Ottoman ambassador in Athens‚ Greece. He somehow convinced the Ottoman emperor to allow him to take the ancient art‚ beginning in 1805. The British government purchased the ancient artifacts from Lord Elgin and placed them in the British Museum‚ where they have remained since 1816. Currently‚ Greece’s government argues that the artifacts should be returned. Britain states that it is a bad idea due to the irreversible damage that
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It was believed that the chain was created by the gods of wealth and that any man who possesses it will have great benefits in life. The chain was being exhibited at the national museum‚ where it was stolen in the early 90s and was never to be seen again. Different groups of men from different area around the world went in search of the golden chain. The men never came back from the journey of finding the golden chain so people began
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The ensemble of Palace Square In front of us there is a view of Palace Square which is considered to be the city’s main square and gives an excellent example of how different architectural styles can be combined in a most elaborate and aesthetically pleasing way. On the northern side of the square stands the earliest and most celebrated building on the square‚ the picturesque Baroque Winter Palace of Russian tsars‚ which gave the square its name. It was built between 1754 and 1762 by Italian architect
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A Gap of Sky ”A Gap of Sky” is a short story by Anna Hope. In this short story we follow the young girl‚ Ellie‚ who studies at UCL. Instead of doing homework and study‚ she likes to party and do drugs. She has been sent to London by her parents to study‚ but she is not taking it as serious as her parents are expecting of her to do. She lives alone and is therefore supposed to be self-dependent which we clearly see she is not. She cannot control her use of drugs‚ she has not got any self-discipline
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LEGAL REFORM IN THE PROTECTION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN ZAMBIA Zambia is an independent democratic state comprising of different ethnic groups which together represent a rich and diverse cultural heritage. This heritage gives Zambia a distinctive character from which it derives its unique personality. This valuable heritage must be preserved‚ nurtured and developed to foster a strong sense of national identity‚ pride and unity and to become a vitalising force in the development process. Our
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There are many interesting places in the world to visit. Many places are interesting because of their popularity‚ some are interesting because of the climate and some are interesting because they are always on the news. Chicago‚ St Petersburg and Armenia are three places in the world that have an interesting history. Chicago is part of Illinois which is one of states of the U.S.. Chicago is not English word. It’s the word form one of languages used by Indians. It means the strong smell. This
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The Dutch peat cutters who had found her body first believing they had saw the devil‚ because of her red hair had had resulted in running away and returning a day after to cover her body with stacks of peat. Her body now in displayed in the Drents museum in Assen along with her modern reconstruction of her physical appearance. Due to various sources‚ Yde girls life have be told and theories have concluded of how she lived and the result and cause of her death at the age of sixteen. Throughout her
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opinion of the Benin people as a “savage and brutal” (Loftus‚ 2008‚ The British Museum and the Benin ‘antiquities’‚ p.52)‚ race led them to question how an “entirely barbarous” (Read and Dalton‚ 1898‚ ‘Antiquities from the City of Benin...’‚ in Reading 2.6: ‘Works of art from Benin City’‚ Loftus and Wood‚ ‘The Art of Benin...’‚ p.84) civilisation could produce such “sophisticated works of art” (Loftus‚ 2008‚ The British Museum and the Benin ‘antiquities’‚ p.52). The British also questioned whether these
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This will allow visitors to appreciate them as a whole piece of art. A new Acropolis Museum was built south of the Acropolis Hill. It is to maintain the Parthenon sculpture in the greatest natural way. The British have them in a museum in artificial light‚ which is destroying the accuracy of the artwork. It is said that the British are not able to provide a true copy of the purchase. Greece claims that they
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clouds played their loud drums and collided with one another for a resounding kiss‚ which caused its mouths to drool‚ that fell hard on the Earth like a boxer smashing his opponent with all his might. Wilbercht Schmidt had just locked the Pergamon Museum in Berlin‚ at 10:05 PM‚ and was about to cross the road which was already wounded by the weight of cars‚ but now‚ due to the hard rain‚ its wounds were even more vulnerable. Wilbercht was as white as a sheet‚ due to the fact that someone had been
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