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PARIS, France (Reuters) — An astonishing collection of papers ranging from a handwritten account from a Titanic survivor to a manuscript written from prison by the Marquis de Sade is set to be auctioned in Paris. The Aguttes auction house acquired the collection from bankrupt French company Aristophil, whose founder Gerard Lheritier was charged with fraud in 2015 after suspicions he ran a Ponzi-like scheme. His company, which acquired some 130,000 pieces, was placed into […]
MUMBAI, India (AFP) — Indian fishermen unload their morning catch as sari-clad women carrying buckets on their heads walk past street art that has transformed one of Mumbai’s oldest fishing docks into an exhibition space. Thirty artists from around the world have given the bustling 142-year-old Sassoon Dock, home to Mumbai’s traditional Koli fishing community, a colourful makeover as part of the St+art Urban Art Festival. “The artworks range from mixed media to graffiti to street-art styles […]
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The Louvre Abu Dhabi, the first museum to bear the Louvre name outside France, presents around 600 pieces in a modern, light-filled structure in harmony with its desert-island setting. Flagged as “the first universal museum in the Arab world,” it sits on the low-lying Saadiyat Island, a developing tourism and culture hub 500 meters (1,600 feet) off the coast of the United Arab Emirates’ capital. It is the […]
by Nova SAFO Agence France-Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — Seated onstage at a museum near Chicago, Adina Sella talks about her life as a Holocaust survivor. A group of young school kids is entranced — all the more so because Sella is not actually there. Her likeness is being beamed in the form of an interactive and moving hologram, part of a first-of-its-kind exhibition debuting this weekend at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, which aims […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A baby’s cries activate specific areas of a mother’s brain related to movement and speech, a study of mothers in several countries published Monday revealed, reinforcing the idea of biological maternal instinct. The National Institute of Health study showed regardless of culture, mothers were likely to react to their infant’s cries by showing affection, distracting, nurturing, picking up and holding. The researchers carried out a series of studies into maternal […]
LONDON, England (Reuters) — A never-seen-before underground mail network is set to open to public in London, 14 years after it closed down. The hidden maze of tunnels which opened in 1927 reportedly boasted of the first electric-powered rail lines in the world. The pioneer service was set up to try and beat congested London roads which in the 1920s were filled with horse and carts. Shut in 2003, the Mail Rail had eight stations […]
ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) — Aleppo’s beleaguered Old City, shelled, burned and shot up during years of fighting in Syria’s civil war, could be rebuilt with the help of local craftsmen and trainees, according to the United Nations cultural body UNESCO. There are detailed plans for the Old City’s great medieval mosques, souks, bath houses and citadel from an earlier restoration that should allow exact reconstruction, a local UNESCO representative said. The fighting in Aleppo ended […]
(Eagle News) — Secretaries Leonor Briones and Martin Andanar have been designated as members of the Unesco National Commission of the Philippines. President Rodrigo Duterte made the designation in letters sent to the secretaries of the Department of Education and the Presidential Communications Operations Office, respectively. The letters were dated March 14, 2017. Duterte said the term of each secretary as member would last for three years. The 45-member commission attached to the Department of Foreign Affairs is […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News Service, June 24) – Imagine a civilization without scarcity, without inequality, without want or need. Where people can do everything they want without fear or limits, a place where there is no crime. Such civilization is the focus of Scottish sci-fi writer Iain M. Banks’ “Culture” series. The eponymous Culture is a meta-civilization, at first composed of eight humanoid species but have managed to assimilate many others. The Culture was […]
Itinatag ang NCCT upang matiyak na lahat ng mga bata sa Pilipinas ay magkaroon ng access sa kalidad ng programa sa telebisyon na nagbibigay kaalaman, pang-edukasyon, nakakaaliw at creative na mga programa.
