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• Pak’s archaeological assets under severe threat from ever expanding militancy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec.27 (ANI): The ever-expanding terror threat in Pakistan has not only affected country’s civilian regime and its economy, but it has also ruined ancient Buddhist monasteries and other such historical relics in the war ravaged North West Frontier Province (NWFP).Places such as Mingora, Peshawar and the Swat ...
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• ITALIAN MUSEUMS WILL BE OPENED ON HOLIDAYS

  
  ITALIAN CULTURE — Authority: 109
  The Colosseum and the Roman Forum - Rome - will be opened for Christmas and new years day . As excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii . I more than 60 museums and archeological areas of the Italy that citizens and tourists can visit the 25 December 2009 and 1 January 2010. They will remain open ...
  5 days ago

• Odyssey/Spain Dispute Headed to 11th Circuit Appeal

  
  Illicit Cultural Property — Authority: 121
  The dispute between Odyssey Marine Exploration and Spain over a shipwreck which was sunk in the early 19th Century will now likely be headed for appeal.  Federal District Court Judge Steven Merryday has issued an order that has adopted the Federal Magistrates Report and Recommendation.  In his order Judge Merryday ...
  6 days ago

• Meitei Manipuris celebrate Lai Haraoba in Tripura

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  By Pinaki DasAgartala, Dec.22 (ANI): The Meitei Manipuri people in Tripura, who have settled and made this State their homeland, celebrated Lai Haraoba recently with pomp and show after a gap 30 years since peace has started returning to Tripura.The objective of the celebration was to keep alive the cultural heritage ...
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• Google Lit Trips

  
  eLearning + eTourism — Authority: 121
  A Different Way to Read Great Literature! This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place ... and so much more! >>>
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• Tribal dance festival spreads message of peace and harmony in Tripura

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Agartala, Dec 20 (ANI): A three-day musical extravaganza was held in Tripura where different tribal communities from all over the state showcased their folk dances to spread the message of peace and harmony. The festival named ‘Adibashi Nritya and Sahitya Mela’ highlighted the traditional tribal culture of Tripura ...
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• Nest Egg Gone Retirees ‘Saved’ By Home Reversion Scheme

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 119
  Retirees Keith and Helen Cowie faced a financial crisis three years ago when their nest egg nearly petered out reports The Australian . At 76 Keith, like many others, considered a reverse mortgage, where the equity in a home is used as security to borrow more, though he was concerned that there may not be anything ...
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• Diving for Treasure in Thailand

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 130
  As well as enabling professionals to carefully excavate shipwreck sites and recover historic artefacts for the edification of generations to come, Unesco schemes to safeguard Thailand’s submarine cultural heritage will also benefit tourist activities such as scuba-diving, points out Bobby Orillaneda, an academic ...
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• Sign The Avaaz Petition For A ‘Real Deal’ At Copenhagen

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 119
  Passing on the Avaaz message: “With three days to go, the crucial Copenhagen summit is failing. Tomorrow, the world’s leaders arrive for an unprecedented 60 hours of direct negotiations. Experts agree that without a tidal wave of public pressure for a deal, the summit will not stop catastrophic global warming ...
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• 10th International Children’s Festival of Performing Arts starts off in capital

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  New Delhi, Dec.16 (ANI): The 10th International Children’s Festival of Performing Arts meant to promote global peace and unity through the medium of performing and allied arts was formally inaugurated in the capital on Wednesday. At least 250 programmes are scheduled to be presented by the participants at four ...
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• REVIEW: Shine, Coconut Moon by Neesha Meminger

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 139
  Dear Ms. Meminger, On Saturday, September 15, 2001, seventeen-year-old Samar “Sam” Ahluwahlia encounters a man she doesn’t know at the door to the house she and her mother share. The man is wearing a turban, and his presence on her doorstep disturbs Samar. But he turns out to be not a menacing terrorist, but ...
  2 weeks ago

• Loos at monuments to get a shine

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Toilets at historical monuments in the capital and in the surrounding tourist circuit are set for a spanking new look.This was announced after the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) signed an memorandum of understanding for maintenance of ...
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• Great Wall ruins discovered in northeast China’s Jilin Province

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  New Delhi, December 14 (ANI): Chinese archaeologists have discovered 11 possible sections of ruins of the Great Wall of Qin (221 B.C. and 206 B.C.) and Han (202 B.C. and 220 A.D.) dynasties in northeast China’s Jilin Province, with four of them confirmed.The ruins were found in Tonghua County by a research team ...
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• Pinky Khoabane Meets Lewis Nkosi and Calls for Mazisi Kunene’s Poetry to Stay in SA

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 484
  Alert! At the weekend, VC Netwox Book Club founder Pinky Khoabane turned to matters of literature in her regular Sunday Times column. She attended author Lewis Nkosi’s recent birthday party - where she observed that the writer’s health and spirits, after a car accident earlier this year, are not in the ...
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• The Tango Is The Latest Intangible Cultural Heritage To Be Preserved!

  
  Latest Inventions — Authority: 112
  Just like the UNESCO Heritage Sites are saved for future generations - now the Tango will live on too! Since 2001 the United Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have been recognizing living traditions that cannot always be held or preserved physically such as dancing and certain ...
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• Deciphering the Rosetta Stone debate

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 127
  Image via Wikipedia Andie Byrnes has posted a compendium of articles regarding the repatriation of the Rosetta Stone. Much of the information is of course repetitive, and while the majority if not all of the writers seem to agree on keeping the historic relic at the British Museum, comments are divided. We ...
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• Ruins of Pompeii on Google Maps Street View

  
  Digging Digitally — Authority: 111
  I’ve never had the opportunity to visit the impressive ruins of volcanically-conserved Pompeii in Italy. I know it from books, articles and the occasional glimpses from TV or movies but now there’s another way to acquaint oneself with how it must’ve felt to actually walk the streets of the ancient Roman city: ...
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• CNI Fall Meeting (Dec. 14-15)

  
  Digging Digitally — Authority: 111
  The  Coalition for Networked Information ( CNI ) holds its  Fall 2009 Membership Meeting this coming December 14-15, in Washington, DC. As usual, the papers presented are worth  checking out and will be available eventually online in some form. J. Shulman et al.’s “ ARTstor Shared Shelf Initiative ” looks ...
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• Programs Announced for 2010 Folklife Festival

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 429
  Instrument maker Benito Hernández Villagrama carefully cuts the inlay for a guitarrón, a mariachi bass, in the workshop in front of his house. Photo by Cristina Díaz-Carrera Every year since 1967, more than one million people gather on the National Mall over two weeks for cultural immersion and exploration. Last ...
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• Tourism Research Highlights Available Free

  
  Pigs Will Fly | the can do community blog — Authority: 119
  The Tourism Satellite Accounts provide all states and territories with comprehensive data on the economic impacts of visitor expenditure on their economies. The 2007-08: Summary Spreadsheets have just been released and are available free from the STCRC (Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Committee). ...
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