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Bascarsijske noci summer festival opens in Sarajevo
Sarajevo - Bosnia-Herzegovina's largest summer festival Bascarsijske noci (The Nights of Bascarsija) opened Tuesday evening in Sarajevo's Old Town or Bascarsija. Traditionally, the festival opens with a Viennese concert, but this year the world premi...
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Expo of greatest Babylon treasures opens in Berlin
Berlin - A touring exhibition of the greatest surviving treasures of ancient Babylon opens Thursday in the German capital Berlin at the Pergamon Museum, which already has one of the world's richest Babylonian collections. The Louvre of Paris and the ...
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2008-06-25 ] Category : [
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Monet painting smashes record at London sale
London - A painting of waterlilies by Claude Monet was sold for 40.9 million pounds (79.3 million dollars) at Christie's auction house in London on Tuesday, fetching a record price for the artist at auction. Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, signed and dated b...
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2008-06-24 ] Category : [
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Hungary's festival season: Variety amidst natural beauty
Budapest - Hungary's music festival season gets underway in early July with big-name bands set to release their hits amidst glorious natural settings. The biggest and best-known festival is the long-running Sziget, set on an island in the middle of t...
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2008-06-24 ] Category : [
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French theorist Todorov wins top Spanish award
Oviedo, Spain - French-Bulgarian semiologist, philosopher and historian Tzvetan Todorov, 69, was Wednesday awarded Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize in the category of social sciences, the jury said in Oviedo. Todorov's intellectual conce...
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2008-06-18 ] Category : [
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Ancient Egyptian official building uncovered in south
Cairo - A US archaeological team uncovered an ancient Egyptian administrative building and silos dating back to the 17th dynasty (ca. 1665-1569 BC) along with an older columned hall in the southern Egyptian town of Edfu, Egypt's antiquities departmen...
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2008-06-17 ] Category : [
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Nan Hoover, video artist, dies in Berlin at 77
Berlin - Nan Hoover, a New York born pioneer of video art, has died in the German capital Berlin at the age of 77, her website and her agent Rene Schmitt said Sunday in Frankfurt. Hoover's funeral would take place Monday, seven days after her death. ...
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2008-06-15 ] Category : [
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