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Archaeologists find Queen of Sheba's palace at Axum, Ethiopia
Hamburg - Archaeologists believe they have found the Queen of Sheba's palace at Axum, Ethiopia and an altar which held the most precious treasure of ancient Judaism, the Ark of the Covenant, the University of Hamburg said Wednesday. Scientists from t...

[Posted on : 2008-05-07 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

41.48 million dollars sets record price for Monet painting
New York - A Claude Monet painting fetched 41.48 million dollars at a New York auction, breaking the record for a work by the French Impressionist painter. An anonymous buyer picked up The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil Tuesday night at a sale at Chri...

[Posted on : 2008-05-07 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Thousands celebrate Walpurgisnacht in German mountains
Thale, Germany - Thousands of tourists gathered in Germany's Harz mountains Wednesday night to celebrate Walpurgisnacht, a night of superstition associated with an ancient spring festival. Witches were once believed to dance on the Brocken, the highe...

[Posted on : 2008-04-30 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Cattelan artwork commissioned for Cologne venue
Cologne, Germany - Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan, 47, has been commissioned to do an installation at the Stommeln Old Synagogue, the town of Pulheim in suburban Cologne said Wednesday. Padua-born Cattelan is widely known for the weird humour of ...

[Posted on : 2008-04-30 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Vatican greets Buddhists for Vesakh festival
Vatican City - The Vatican issued Tuesday warm greetings to Buddhists for their festival of Vesakh which this year is celebrated between May 12 and 18. In the message, the Vatican's top inter-faith dialogue official, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, als...

[Posted on : 2008-04-29 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Boy, 9, and grandfather find medieval silver treasure in Sweden
Stockholm - A 9-year-old boy's search for shrapnel on an old battlefield resulted in a huge find of medieval silver coins near the Lund in southern Sweden, local media reported Monday. Alexander Granhof, 9, and his grandfather made the recent discove...

[Posted on : 2008-04-28 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Nakizumo 'crying sumo' festival held in Japan
Tokyo - Japan's traditional Nakizumo, or crying sumo, festival took place Sunday as babies competed to bawl the loudest in the arms of sumo wrestlers as a prayer to the gods for good health. Parents pray at the annual event at the Sensoji temple in t...

[Posted on : 2008-04-27 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Artist Spencer Tunick seeks nude crowd in Ireland
Cork, Ireland - Acclaimed US contemporary visual artist, Spencer Tunick, best known for his ability to pull large nude crowds, has put out a call for those prepared to bare all in public in Ireland for his latest project. The sometimes controversial ...

[Posted on : 2008-04-26 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Simplified edition of Anne Frank diary announced
Amsterdam - The Dutch Read & Write Foundation on Friday announced the publication of a simplified edition of the Anne Frank Diary for 1.5 million Dutch nationals who have difficulty reading or have only recently learned to read. The original text has...

[Posted on : 2008-04-25 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

Frankfurt's Jewish museum celebrates Oskar Schindler
Frankfurt - Frankfurt's Jewish Museum opened an exhibition Wednesday to mark the centennial of the birth of Oskar Schindler, the true-life hero whose story was told in the movie Schindler's list. The German, born April 28, 1908 in the Sudetenland reg...

[Posted on : 2008-04-23 ] Category : [ Culture (General) ]

 



 

 


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