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The Matterhorn Museum in Zermatt is a cultural-natural museum whose main theme is the Matterhorn. The museum is in the form of a reconstituted mountain village consisting of 14 houses (church, hotel, huts and granaries), and relates the history and development of tourism in the Zermatt area, including the story of the first ascent of the ...
The name Matterhorn derives from the German words Matte ("meadow") and Horn ("horn"), [6] and is often translated as "the peak of the meadows". [2]In the Schalbetter map, printed by Sebastian Münster in 1545, the valley is labelled Mattertal, but the mountain has the Latin name Mons Silvius as well as the German name Augstalberg, in concord with the Aosta Valley (German Augstal).
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The popular and controversial travelling exhibition was seen by an estimated 1.2 million visitors over the last decade. Using written documents from the era and archival photographs, the organizers had shown that the Wehrmacht was "involved in planning and implementing a war of annihilation against Jews, prisoners of war, and the civilian population".
Sunrise on the Matterhorn is painting by American artist Albert Bierstadt. Done in oil on canvas and depicting the famous Matterhorn, the painting was produced during one of Bierstadt's numerous trips to Switzerland between the years 1867 and 1897. The painting is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1]
Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany X-ray The first X-ray, taken by its inventor, featured his wife's hand and ring. [s 2] [s 3] [s 4] Shroud of Turin negative: 1898 Secondo Pia: Turin, Italy Negative: Photographic negative of an ancient cloth relic shows details of a scourged and crucified human body [s 2] Organ Player and Singing Girl ...