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Seventh time lucky for Japan (FIFA - Fédération Internationale de Football Association)

Edit Public Technologies 31 Oct 2016

The Iranians immediately pulled one back through Reza Jafari, but Al Yami restored his side's two-goal lead before Aref Aghasi fired home to make it 3-2 to the Saudis at half-time. Al Naji added his second of the match right after the restart, but Reza Shekari responded with an opportunistic strike as the Iranians clawed their way back into the match....

State calls for museums in Keezhadi, Adichchanallur

Edit The Hindu 31 Oct 2016

Enthused by the major discovery of artefacts at a site near Keezhadi in Sivaganga district, the Tamil Nadu government is planning to approach the Archaeological Survey of India to set up museums at Keezhadi near Madurai and Adichchanallur in Thoothukudi district ... We are going to urge the ASI to set up museums in Keezhadi and Adichchanallur,” State School Education Minister K....

New set of zodiac gold plates released by National Museum of China

Edit China Daily 31 Oct 2016

The National Museum of China launched a new merchandise set of zodiac gold plates on Thursday in Beijing. The new products will be available in the museum's store in November ... Museum of China....

Fire & rescue museum to come up in Fort Kochi

Edit The Times of India 31 Oct 2016

The Kerala fire & rescue services department has proposed to set up a museum at Fort Kochi to showcase the evolution of fire force in the state. The museum, which will be the first of its kind will tell the history of the department which spans more than five decades. The idea of the museum was mooted earlier this year when Loknath Behera was the chief of the fire & rescue services....

Iowa museum marks retirement of planetarium projector

Edit The Washington Times 31 Oct 2016

CHEROKEE, Iowa (AP) - A museum in northwest Iowa is marking the retirement of its vintage planetarium projector. The Sioux City Journal reports (http.//bit.ly/2fumlG6 ) the Sanford Museum and Planetarium held a retirement party for its 1951 Spitz A-1 planetarium projector on Sunday. The equipment was used for one final ... ....

Group running Tokyo ‘comfort women’ museum reveals it got bomb threat

Edit Japan Times 31 Oct 2016

A nonprofit organization based in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward that operates the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace said on its website Sunday that it received a bomb threat letter earlier this month. The museum displays pictures and statements of the former “comfort women” who were forced to work at wartime Japanese military brothels. The appeared first on The Japan Times . > ... ....

Experts share experience and insight in smart tourism

Edit China Daily 31 Oct 2016

Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum, delivered a speech about how to enhance tourists' experience and tackle huge amount of visitors via smart tourism. The museum opens 32 ticket-selling counters, and tourists can buy tickets online in advance. They can know about information of antique and traditional Chinese culture via the museum's mobile apps ... "We can make tourist distributing centers into places to experience VR/AR....

The Emperor’s New Museum

Edit New Yorker 31 Oct 2016

We had just sat down in his office at the Long Museum West, one of two privately run art museums that he has opened in the city, when his face contorted and a sneeze of atomic force burst out, unhindered by ......

Kerry James Marshall’s America

Edit New Yorker 31 Oct 2016

“Mastry,” an exhilarating Kerry James Marshall retrospective at the Met Breuer, is a big deal for three reasons. it marks the museum’s blessing of Marshall and, in turn, Marshall’s benediction of the museum, and it affirms a revival of grandly scaled, thematic figurative painting ... He tells ... ....

After 25 years, supporters praise Clarence Thomas, but controversy is always near

Edit The Oklahoman 31 Oct 2016

They are pressuring the new National Museum of African American History and Culture to revise its fleeting, and they say insulting, reference to him ... Paoletta has helped publicize complaints about the new museum, where Thomas is mentioned only in the context of Hill's allegations ... Thomas said the museum's exhibits "will continue to evolve and change over time as we interpret the African American experience."...

Some of Venezuela's opposition begin talks with president

Edit The Jakarta Post 31 Oct 2016

Maduro arrived at a museum in western Caracas to formally kick off the talks, which many of his foes fear could be a stalling tactic designed to ease pressure on the leader who is widely unpopular over rocketing inflation and shortages of food and other basic goods....

Tosh goes live Tuesday

Edit Topix 31 Oct 2016

Come Tuesday, the newly established Peter Tosh Museum at the Pulse Complex in New Kingston will open its doors to the public. The project, which was officially opened two weeks ago, aims to offer visitors an insight into the life and legacy of the reggae great who began his musical career in the 1960s as a member of The Wailers, which also featured Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer ... ....

Worcester's bicentennial mural is brightened

Edit Worcester Telegram 31 Oct 2016

WORCESTER - New York City-based muralist Nick Kuszyk works Saturday on the restoration of the oldest street mural in the city, commissioned in 1975 for the United States bicentennial.Designed by Sante Grazianai, former dean of the school at the Worcester Art Museum, the mural uses portrait painter Gilbert Stuart's famous image of President George ......

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