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Leonardo Da Vinci Fingerprint Reveals Arab Heritage?

Leonardo da Vinci may have had an Arab heritage, according to Italian researchers who... more

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Cute Navajo kids during second week of school at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona

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2009 Navajo Lutheran Mission Rock Point, AZ: Volunteers from Pittsburgh area churches paint murals

(Rock Point, AZ) - Videos produced by two Pittsburgh area churches led by Pastor Susan... more

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2009 Navajo livestock vaccination: Navajo Lutheran Mission group from Sacramento Church of the Cross

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New Heritage Water Trail in Michigan

Celebrate the opening of a new Heritage Water Trail in Oakland County along 7 miles of... more

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Dolomites, a world natural heritage site

The Alpine section has recently been included in UNESCO’s list of sites to... more

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Part 1: 2007 Christmas Pageant at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona

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Part 2: 2007 Christmas Pageant at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona

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Part 3: 2007 Christmas Pageant at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona

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HELP Native American & youth projects: Please vote today to help Michigan environment projects

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Your vote needed today: Support EarthKeepers/Zaagkii project/Vote daily thru August 30, 2009

Please vote daily through August 30, 2009 for story about Rev. Jon Magnuson's... more

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7 Famous Palaces To Visit (+1 You Wish You Could)

If you’re looking for the creme de la creme of vacation spots, a palace is right up... more

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14 Most Amazing Temples in the World 2

These are spectacular views of amazing and gorgeous temples around the world.

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14 Most Amazing Temples in the World One

These are spectacular views of amazing and gorgeous temples around the world.

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New World Heritage Sites: Trip on a Deal Ep 30

http://www.triponadeal.com This week we highlight the new additions to UNESCO’s... more

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The Dolomites are now on the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites

The recognition goes to nine of the Dolomite groups within the provinces of Trento,... more

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Hair-Itage--Can A Lock Of Hair "Un-Tangle" History?

"A braid is made of a sequence of ties and twists--sort of like life. The hairstyle... more

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Celtic Christianity Today Homily “Repent or the Time is Near” Part 1 by Rev. Dr. George Cairns

Mark 16:15 John 1-5 Ephesians 1: 3-4 & 1: 9-10 (Valparaiso, Indiana) - Rev. Dr.... more

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Celtic Christianity Today Homily “The Goodness of Creation” by Rev. Dr. George Cairns

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Canada's Cultural Heritage - Rotting Away?

"In the storerooms of the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, the silk flags once carried by the 104th Regiment of Foot – as the New Brunswickers marched all the way to Upper Canada to fight the War of 1812 – are quietly disintegrating. In British Columbia, staff at the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel in Cranbrook dream of the day they raise the money for a building to shelter four unique luxury trains that currently sit outdoors, where temperature fluctuations are taking their toll on walnut-panelled interiors, stained-glass windows and wool carpeting.

Canada's heritage is slowly rotting away as museums merely pretty up objects that are going on display, say museum administrators and conservators. As they mark International Museum Day this weekend, they cheerfully welcome visitors into new, gizmo-packed galleries and restored historic sites. Behind the scenes, however, in the storage areas and warehouses where the bulk of any museum collection is located, they wonder how much longer they can hold time at bay.

“As we fiddle, Rome is burning,” says Calgary conservator David Daley, a representative of the Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property. “… Cultural heritage is similar to an endangered species; once lost, it is gone forever.”

Daley and other museum professionals say the recession is making a bad situation worse. “Care of collections has always been difficult to finance. There are not a lot of grants or programs for it,” says Nancy Noble, CEO of the Museum of Vancouver. “It will be worse now because foundations that have supported it in the past wouldn't have as much money.”

Her own institution can't find the funds to repair a large tear in a portrait of former B.C. lieutenant-governor Eric Hamber that occurred some time after the painting was acquired in 1989. The museum's conservator, Carol Brynjolfson, recalls she was asked during her job interview in 1992 if she could patch it, but that she explained a patch would tug at the rest of the canvas. Each individual thread needs to be glued back together, a job she estimates would take weeks of work and specialized skills outside her area. In 2006, the museum got an $8,000 federal grant to hire a conservation intern to work on its painting collection, but could not find a corporate donor or foundation to match the money; so it never made the hire. Twenty years after the museum bought the 1938 painting, it sits in storage – with a hole in the lieutenant-governor's chest.

If it seems a sad waste when such small projects get shelved for decades, larger and more urgent ones look like tragedies in the making. In Cranbrook, the Museum of Rail Travel has brought together the four early-20th-century Canadian-made sets of railway cars from the golden age of rail. Entire hotels on wheels, complete with observation, dining and sleeping cars, they would require at least 80,000 square feet of building to house. Although the cars were built to withstand the Canadian climate, they were not built for eternity, and outdoor changes in temperature and humidity are damaging their decorative interiors.

“The cars will return to the earth, like anything else,” says executive director Garry Anderson, who estimates that in 25 years time they will have reached a point where restoration becomes impossibly expensive, adding that his museum has received a $110,000 federal grant to cover a feasibility study for a building. “Our railway heritage is far too important to place on the back burner,” he says.

But all kinds of heritage is getting placed on the back burner, in part, museum staff suggest, because conservation is largely invisible to the public.""In the storerooms of the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, the silk flags once... more

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Leonardo Da Vinci Fingerprint Reveals Arab Heritage?

Cute Navajo kids during second week of school at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona

2009 Navajo Lutheran Mission Rock Point, AZ: Volunteers from Pittsburgh area churches paint murals

2009 Navajo livestock vaccination: Navajo Lutheran Mission group from Sacramento Church of the Cross

New Heritage Water Trail in Michigan

Dolomites, a world natural heritage site

Part 1: 2007 Christmas Pageant at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona

Part 2: 2007 Christmas Pageant at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona

Part 3: 2007 Christmas Pageant at the Navajo Lutheran Mission in Rock Point, Arizona

HELP Native American & youth projects: Please vote today to help Michigan environment projects

Your vote needed today: Support EarthKeepers/Zaagkii project/Vote daily thru August 30, 2009

7 Famous Palaces To Visit (+1 You Wish You Could)

14 Most Amazing Temples in the World 2

14 Most Amazing Temples in the World One

New World Heritage Sites: Trip on a Deal Ep 30

The Dolomites are now on the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites

Hair-Itage--Can A Lock Of Hair "Un-Tangle" History?

Celtic Christianity Today Homily “Repent or the Time is Near” Part 1 by Rev. Dr. George Cairns

Celtic Christianity Today Homily “The Goodness of Creation” by Rev. Dr. George Cairns

Canada's Cultural Heritage - Rotting Away?

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