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Arkansas museum unveils 1851 gun used to train military school soldiers, seized for Civil War

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas: An 1851 artillery gun carried into battle by Arkansas military school students who joined the Confederate Army was unveiled in its home state Thursday after nearly 150 years.

Arkansas museum unveils 1851 gun used to train military school soldiers, seized for Civil War

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas-An 1851 artillery gun carried into battle by Arkansas military school students who joined the Confederate Army was unveiled in its home state Thursday after nearly 150 years.

1851 gun used in Civil War returns to Arkansas

Tom Gray, owner of Cowden Art Conservation, inspects an 1851 Alger Cadet Gun after it was placed on display at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, July 3, 2008. The bronze Artillery piece was commandeered by Confederate forces during the Civil War and assigned to an Arkansas infantry regiment during the conflict.

Activision Announces Civil War: Secret Missions

Activision announced today that HISTORY Civil War: Secret Missions will be released later this year for the Xbox 360, PS3, PlayStation 2, and PC. A completely new episode in the HISTORY Civil War franchise, the game will allow players to assume the role of Union and Confederate soldiers fighting behind enemy lines in legendary battles.

Activision Publishing Announces HISTORY(TM) Civil War: Secret Missions

announced today that HISTORY Civil War: Secret Missions will be released later this year for the Xbox 360(R) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION(R)3 and PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment systems, and PC. A completely new episode in the HISTORY Civil War franchise, the game will allow players to assume the role of Union and Confederate soldiers fighting behind enemy lines in legendary battles.

Movement expected on Jewish World War II fighter museum

Over five years since planning began, a museum project commemorating the role of 1.5 million Jewish soldiers in World War II has yet to get off the ground, complained veterans before the Knesset Public Petitions Committee on Tuesday. But the muscle behind the museum's establishment, Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Zvi Kan-Tor, CEO of the Association for Establishing the Museum of the Jewish Soldier in WWII, said that in the coming weeks, the picture will change entirely.

Activision Publishing Announces HISTORY(TM) Civil War: Secret Missions

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI - News) announced today that HISTORY Civil War: Secret Missions will be released later this year for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems, and PC. A completely new episode in the HISTORY Civil War franchise, the game will allow players to assume the role of Union and Confederate soldiers fighting behind enemy lines in legendary battles.

Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy

Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender appears, upon closer inspection, to contain actual signatures and date to 1865.

Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy

Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender appears, upon closer inspection, to contain actual signatures and date to 1865.

Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy

PHILADELPHIA-Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender appears, upon closer inspection, to contain actual signatures and date to 1865.

Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy

PHILADELPHIA: Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender appears, upon closer inspection, to contain actual signatures and date to 1865.

Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Officials at a small Civil War museum made an intriguing discovery while sifting through storage: A document long treated as a photo reproduction of the terms of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender appears, upon closer inspection, to contain actual signatures and date to 1865.

Museum: Civil War surrender document no photocopy

A document spelling out the terms of surrender, signed by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, on April 10th 1865, a day after his surrender to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, is displayed at the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum in Philadelphia, Monday, July 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Justin Maxon)

Museum of Islamic Art - an international centre for dialogue and cultural exchange

The Museum of Islamic Art, which will be opening on November 22, in Doha, Qatar, under the patronage of Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, had its reception at the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum on May 27. It will be a new international centre for learning and creativity. While welcoming the guests, Lord Jacob Rothschild, Trustee of the Museum of Islamic Art, said, “Beyond the Museum it is also the place of learning and the platform of dialogue. [The] museum will develop a fruitful relationship with world class institution like the British Museum.”

The USA National Civil War Museum Houses One of the World's Largest Collections of Civil War Artifacts

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Mystery insect bugging experts at London museum

In this undated image made available by Natural History Museum, showing the tiny red-and-black bug which is thought to be a new species of insect, and that has appeared inside London's Natural History Museum gardens, according to information made available Monday July 14, 2008. The almond-shaped insect, about the size of a grain of rice seems to thrive on plane trees at the grounds of the 19th-century museum, but this insect is not the same as any of the 28 million insects currently classified by the museum, 'I don't expect to find a new species in the gardens of a museum,' said Max Barclay, Collections Manager at the Natural History Museum.

Orange Switzerland unveils iPhone pricing

AT&T unveils iPhone 3G pricing Lusacell, RIM launch BlackBerry Curve 8330 in Mexico Bell to launch Samsung Instinct in Canada Optus unveils postpaid, prepaid iPhone plans Hutchinson Hong Kong unveils price plans for iPhone 3G Telstra to launch Apple iPhone 3G on its Next G network from 11 July Future Shop launches m-commerce app for BlackBerry users Huawei to deploy WiMAX network for Mobilink in Pakistan Vodafone Spain unveils Nokia 2600 Classic Pack for kids Canadian mobile operator Fido unveils 3G iPhone price plans

Inside Africa's PlayStation War

In the rugged volcanic mountains of the Congo the conflict known as Africa’s World War continues to smolder after ten grueling years. The conflict earned its name because at the height of the war eight African nations and over 25 militias were in the combatant mix. But more recently the conflict was given another name: The PlayStation War. The name came about because of a black metallic ore called coltan. Extensive evidence shows that during the war hundreds of millions of dollars worth of coltan was stolen from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The UN and several NGOs claim some of the most active thieves were the Rwandan military, several militias supported by the Rwandan government, and also a number of western-based mining companies, metal brokers, and metal processors that had allegedly partnered with these Rwandan factions.

July 29, 2008-- IMLS Announces Recipients of 2008 Museum Grants For African American History and Culture

Washington, DC—On July 29, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded $827,290 to eight exceptional institutions as part of the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program. These grants are available to organizations that focus on African American life, art, history, or culture, and can be used for programs to recruit, train, and retain skilled and new museum professionals in African American museums.

Thomas Hoving, Best-Selling Author and Former Director of the Metropolitan Museum...

Thomas Hoving, Best-Selling Author and Former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Joins artnet as Contributor to artnet Magazine NEW YORK & BERLIN--(Business Wire)-- artnet is pleased to announce that Thomas Hoving, best-selling author and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has joined artnet as a contributor to artnet Magazine. A renowned museum executive, Hoving was first a curator (1959-65) and then director (1967-77) of the Met, where he presided over a dramatic expansion of both the museum and its audience. He specialized in high-profile acquisitions of masterworks -- an abiding interest, and the subject of his first artnet Magazine column -- as well as opening the museum to a broader and more youthful public via blockbuster exhibitions like "King Tut.

Isaac Rosenberg, an artist in the ranks

A frequent complaint of military historians is that the general public’s notion of the First World War is little more than a “myth�, largely fuelled by the enduring popularity of the War Poets. They argue that the widespread belief that the war was futile, uniquely wasteful of human life and conducted by arrogant and incompetent generals persists, in the face of the facts, because people read Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon rather than scholarly works of military history. Unlike the ordinary rankers who made up the greater part of the British Army and endured the trenches with stoicism and good humour, the War Poets are dismissed as a “small but unrepresentative group of junior officers� who stand accused of being oversensitive, of being too much concerned with their own finer feelings, even of “whingeing�.

School Closes Books on First Year in Innovative 1:1 Linux ThinkPad Computing Program

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - July 1, 2008: Lenovo today announced that Whitfield School, an independent school for grades 6-12 in St. Louis, MO, has successfully completed its first school year operating a 1:1 computing program (one computer for every student, grades 6-12) utilizing more than 600 Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks to power the school¡¯s innovative use of Linux.

Bread Museum in Odesa

Original Museum of Bread opened in Odesa. Its exposition tells the history of bread-making, depicting the way the bread was baked in the times when Russian Tsars ruled Ukraine, the pre-revolutionary period and during the Great World War, as well as today. Among the unique documents presented are the orders of Katherine the Great and Odesa city officials in 18th century, ancient recipes and bread making technologies, and photographs. The materials for the museum were taken from the city archive, and from private family archives of citizens and the employees of Odesskiy Karavay company, which initiated the establishment of the museum.

Far Out! New Museum at Bethel Woods Celebrates the 60s

The Museum at Bethel Woods, designed by museum designer Gallagher & Associates and museum architect Westlake Reed Leskosky and making up the newest part of the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, N.Y., opened last month at the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The museum, designed to offer a multimedia understanding of the turbulent decade that reshaped America, offers 10,000 square feet of permanent display space, 6,000 square feet of changing exhibit gallery, a research and archive library, a 1,000-seat performance amphitheater, and a 4,500-square-foot events gallery. To understand the iconic significance of Woodstock, the architects say that the project will help younger visitors grasp the vital context of what was happening at the time “politically, militarily, and socially,� while enabling boomers to look bac

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