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WRAP Waxwork figures of US President- elect unveiled
London, UK
1. Wide exterior of Madame Tussauds
2. Media at display for US President-elect Barack Obama wax figure
3. Wide of Obama wax figure standing in mock Oval office
4. Various of Obama figure
5. Tilt up from mock US presidential...
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Artist Marc Chagall celebrated in his home town
Marc Chagall spent most of his life in France and was considered to be a French painter during the Soviet era.
But in the period after his death in 1985 Chagall's homeland of Belarus embraced the artist as their own.
The Chagall Art...
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The phones used to make the world's first coast-to-coast conference call 100 year ago have been put on display at the California Historical Society's 1915 World's Fair exhibit space in San Francisco. (Jan. 22)
A century before the selfie, and long before phones were smart, the world's first coast-to-coast conference call was made on January 25, 1915.
To commemorate the centennial anniversary of that event, the original phones used to make the...
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Museum presents natural history exhibition alongside major art works
This week, Madrid's Prado Museum presents a curious series of installations juxtaposing the museum's major art works with the original idea for the building's use as a natural history museum.
When it was commissioned by Charles III in...
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Birthday of Jane Austen - ahead of 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice
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Chawton, Hampshire, U.K - 22 October 2012
1. Mid shot exterior Jane Austen's house
2. Cutaway leaves on tree
3. Wide village of Chawton pan to Jane Austen's House
4. Close up sign pointing to Jane Austen's House
5. Tilt...
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Adolf Hitler's last known album of artworks stolen by the Nazis during World War II is being donated to the National Archives to mark the anniversary of the war's end in Europe. (May 8)
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Adolf Hitler's last known album of artworks stolen by the Nazis during World War II is being donated to the National Archives to mark the anniversary of the war's end in Europe.
The...
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New French exhibition celebrates the night
All things that go bump in the night are being revealed at a special exhibition to raise our awareness about nocturnal creatures.
Curators at Paris' National Museum of Natural History say their aim is to get everyone interested in the...
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Picasso Museum prepares to open five years after closing for renovation
The Picasso museum in Paris is preparing to reopen its doors to the public after being closed for five years for renovation and expansion - time that has been fraught with setbacks and dismissals.
When the museum officially opens on 25...
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Apple founder's home gets historical designation
The Silicon Valley home where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs grew up and built some of his first computers is now on the city's list of historic properties.
The historical commission in the city of Los Altos voted unanimously for the...
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The Victory Belles, a New Orleans dance troupe, help World War II veterans recall the good times of the 1940's. Their performances at the National World War II Museum bring big band songs and long forgotten memories back to life. (Dec. 5)
SOUNDBITE: Forrest Villarrubia, WWII Veteran
"I teared (laughing) bringing back many, many memories, many, many."
SOUNDBITE: Mandi Ridgdell, Victory Belle:
"To bring that back and to remind them of those times is an incredible feeling."...
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Controversial exhibit previewed at Jewish Museum in NY
APTN - 13 March 2002
1. Wide shot interior exhibit space at Jewish Museum, shows sculpted clay heads by Christine Borland, "L'Homme Double", all depicting Nazi criminal Josef Mengele
2. Close up detail of Rudolf Herz's "Zugzwang", a room...
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Preview of opening of memorial to gays killed by Nazis
1. Wide of memorial
2. Mid of artists
3. Close of man taking photograph through memorial window
4. Wide of memorial
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ingar Dragset, memorial designer:
"We proposed to make a concrete stele, a concrete slab that is...
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Bush on first anniversary + Laura donates dress to museum
January 20, 2002
1. Wide shot presidential helicopter landing
2. US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush getting off helicopter and walking to White House
3. Bush speaking to reporters
4. White House
January 20, 2002
5....
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Putin included in Session of State Council artwork
1. Wide of Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2. Poster stand outside museum
3. Wide of exhibition hall, people in front of the painting "The session at the Federation Council"
4. Close up of woman looking at painting
5. Wide of painting
6....
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Oldest football on show in museum; look at newest WC version
Hamburg, Germany - 13 June 2006
1. Exterior of museum
2. Mid shot of inside of museum with a reproduction of 2000 year old goal post from China - medium shot of ball
3. Sign on display reading: oldest football in the world, tilt up to...
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Robot flowers in bloom at Kinetica showcase
AP Television
London, UK - October 12, 2012
1. Various of Diane Harris demonstrating Adaptive Bloom by Justin Godyer (2011)
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Diane Harris, Kinetica Museum
"So Justin Godyer's Adaptive Bloom is an interactive work...
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Obamas Officially Open New Black History Museum
The first national museum devoted exclusively to the history and culture of African-Americans is now open.President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama opened the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and...
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Relics from ancient mega-city on show in Berlin
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Berlin - 24 April 2013
1. Wide of replica statue depicting King Gilgamesh, thought to have ruled Uruk around 2600 BC
2. Close of head of statue
3. Close of lion on statue
4. Tilt up of statue
5. Close of sign for...
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Bathrooms, bedrooms and unanswered emails at Biennale
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4038513LEAD IN:Installations based around people's bathrooms, bedrooms and unanswered emails are all part of the Berlin Biennale art festival.This year's edition explores the multiple cross sections...
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Luxury watches on show in Hong Kong
This year's fair showcases more than 750 exhibitors from 18 countries and regions.
In a technology driven world of smartphones and tablet devices, watches have become status symbols.
For him ...Something chunky and manly with...
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Wake Forest honours alumnus Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer played golf at Wake Forest College when the school was actually still in the North Carolina town that bears its name. On Monday, the college's birthplace museum was draped in black crepe in honour of its most famous...
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Ancient Phoenician recreated and on show among his Lebanese descendents
Mentioned in the bible, the Phoenicians were an ancient civilisation in an area of what is now Southern Lebanon.
DNA testing has linked this ancient culture directly with the people still living around Tyre. Now a new exhibition is...
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Ancient clothing from Samurai Warrior jackets to shoes preserved, and painstakingly restored
This jacket was once worn by a Samurai warrior in 17th century Japan.
It is one of the items of clothing on display in Florence.
These pieces of clothing have all been painstakingly restored at the at the laboratories of the Opificio...
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Life under German occupation during WW1
A museum best known for its hangar of military aircraft has proved itself with a new exhibition, which instead of just focusing on the horrors of the battles of the First World War takes the visitor on a visual and auditory tour of life...