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The Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals are a series of exhibition halls at the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. The halls opened on June 12, 2021, as a complete redesign of their predecessors, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Gems and Minerals and Morgan Memorial Hall ...
Canberra claims petroleum and natural gas fields in an area known as the 'Timor Gap', which Timor-Leste regards as lying within its maritime boundaries. Articles relating to this topic include: Timor Sea Treaty; Australia-Timor-Leste spying scandal
Sarah Stone (c. 1760 – 1844), later known as Sarah Smith, was a British natural history illustrator and painter. Her works included many studies of specimens brought back to England from expeditions in Australia and the Pacific. Her illustrations are amongst the first studies of many species and are as scientifically significant. [1] [2]
The natural vegetation was tropical dry broadleaf forests with an undergrowth of shrubs and grasses supporting a rich wildlife [citation needed]. However much of the original forest has been cleared for farming, [citation needed] especially on the coasts of Timor and on the smaller islands like Atauro. Apart from one large block in the centre ...
This is a timeline of East Timorese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Timor-Leste and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Timor-Leste .
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum. There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia. The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1812. [1]
Museum architecture [1] has been of increasing importance over the centuries, especially more recently. [2] [3] [4] A challenge for museum architecture is the differing purposes of the building. [citation needed] The museum collection must be preserved, but it also needs to be made accessible to the public. Climate control may be very important ...
The masonry from which it was built consists of stone, brick and plaster, and originally had a whitewashed finish. The building is made up of three modules, connected and arranged in a U-shape. [ 2 ] Its north side facing the sea is open, an arrangement made possible only because of a coral reef that gave the area natural protection from ...