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At the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Baltimore, humans provide the power for creations made out of anything. But the AP's Lee Powell found the spectacle is as much about personality as physics.
HEADLINE: Pink poodle, bobbing bird take on city's streets
CAPTION: At the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Baltimore, humans provide the power for creations made out of anything. But the AP's Lee Powell found the spectacle is as much about...
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FRANCE: PARIS: PUBLIC WORKERS STRIKE AFFECTS TOURISM
Eng/French/Nat
Two weeks of strikes in France have begun to affect the country's tourist industry.
With traffic chaos in Paris and stoppages at airports and on public transport visitors are avoiding the French capital.
With opinions in...
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Grand Palais exhibition of works by Japanese artist Hokusai
A major retrospective of the work of Japanese artist Hokusai is due to open on Wednesday at the Paris Grand Palais.
The exhibition, which runs through to January 18 2015, features up to five hundred Hokusai works - three hundred...
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Brazilian technology unmasks an Egyptian mummy
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1. Exterior National Museum
2. Egyptian Collection showing two ancient Egyptian caskets
3. Various Egyptian mummy kept in nitrogen
4. Archeologist bringing box that contains a mummy's head
5. Close up of the...
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Stars talk backstage
APTelevision
New York, 12 March 2007
1. Wide Steve Van Zandt on stage
2. Camera cutaway
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Al Sharpton: "I am here tonight because in 1986 I accompanied James Brown here. James Brown was like my father. He brought...
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UAE government summit showcases technology of the future
Politicians, civil servants and intellectuals are getting a taste of the future at a forward-thinking design summit in Dubai.
Towering exoskeletons, chess playing robots and self-driving cars may seem like science fiction to some, but...
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Changing attitudes to sex in Russia
AP Television
Moscow, Russia - 9 August, 2011
1. Close up of Russian ''matryoshka'' dolls in erotic attire on display
2. Various of female anatomical mannequins in glass boxes
3. Woman looking at display case, zoom in
4. Pull focus on...
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ISRAEL: MACHISMO AND MILITARISM ON DISPLAY AT ISRAEL MUSEUM
English/Nat
An unusual exhibition has opened at Jerusalem's Israel Museum.
The show attacks male macho attitudes and militarism in Israeli society.
The exhibits include a number of edible chocolate soldiers and a set of three oil ...
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Winning Islamic artworks go on display in UAE
Sharjah - 15th September 2010
1. Wide of front of Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation showing banners for Jameel Prize on facade of building
2. Close-up of gilded dome on top of museum
3. Wide of people looking at work by Iranian...
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Egypt''s underwater treasures
The pyramids at Giza. A must-see in anyone''s life time, but their popularity is causing problems.
Not least because of the humidity caused by humans breathing in a limited space.
As Dr.Zahi Hawass Head of the Supreme Council of...
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Exhibition opens in Jerusalem showing the style of Jewish fashions from around the world
Long before stilettos, runways and Vogue, the passion for fashion and trendy looks was just as strong in the 19th century in some of the most remote parts of the world.
A recently opened exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem...
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Hot house butterflies hit chilly New York
AP Television
New York City, New York - 7 October 2009
1. Mid of butterfly on flower
2. Mid of butterfly on leaf
3. Mid of butterfly on orchid
4. Mid of butterfly flying away from a tree
5. Wide of tree with butterflies on it
6. Close...
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Mississippi River was key to the economic development of the US Midwest
Baton Rouge - 12 July 2008
1. Wide of river and barge
2. Pan right from father and son in observation area of Louisiana capitol building to river
3. Various wide shots of river
4. Wide of barge pulling to dock
New Orleans - 14 July...
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Stolen Matisse to return to museum more than a decade after its theft
1. Various of a photo of the painting 'Odalisque in Red Pants' by Henri Matisse
2. Raul Grioni, President of Venezuela's Cultural Patrimony Institute, talking to assistant
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Raul Grioni, President of Venezuela's...
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Dead Sea Scrolls go online for the first time
Jerusalem - 25 Sept 2011
1. Close up on Isaiah scroll, part of Dead Sea Scrolls
2. Pan left of Isaiah scroll
3. Close up on Google search bar, with the words "Dead Sea Israel Museum" being typed
4. Pull out from Isaiah scroll on...
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Exhibition of rare 800,000 year-old human fossils
1. Wide shot zoom in to mid shot of news briefing for exhibition "Origins: Treasures from the Hills of Atapuerca" at the American Museum of Natural History, with Craig Morris speaking at podium
2. Close-up replica of "Skull number 5",...
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HUNGARY: ILLEGAL CROSS BORDER TRADE IN LIVE ANIMALS
Hungarian/English
The illegal cross-border trade in live animals is booming, and Hungary's position between Eastern and Western Europe makes it a popular transit point for smugglers.
From lizards to rare parrots, the animals are...
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Art believed destroyed by Nazis found in Berlin
1. Wide of exhibition hall at Neues Museum
2. Various of sculpture "The Dancer" by Marg Moll
3. Mid of head of "The Dancer" by Marg Moll in focus to out of focus and close of head of sculpture "Standing Girl" by Otto Braun in focus ...
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A new installation at the L.A. County Museum of Art attempts to imitate and improve on modern urban life with a cityscape of model skyscrapers and hundreds of toy cars whizzing around a maze of miniature roads. It's artist Chris Burden's vision of the future.
HEADLINE: Futuristic sculpture charms LA museum visitors
CAPTION: A new installation at the L.A. County Museum of Art attempts to imitate and improve on modern urban life with a cityscape of model skyscrapers and hundreds of toy cars...
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Jazz musican's home turned into museum
1. Wide exterior of Armstrong's home in the Corona section of Queens, New York
2. Front door of house
3. Pan from Sofa in living room to painting of Armstrong on wall of house
4. Downstairs bathroom with mirrors all around the room
5....
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USA: NEW YORK: GIANT SQUID SPECIMEN GOES ON DISPLAY
English/Nat
The world's best-preserved specimen of a giant squid, the largest living invertebrate on Earth, has gone on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Giant squid live at least a 1-thousand 500 metres...
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Human bones fuel fire to make swords
Kaohsiung county, southern Taiwan, 20 August 2009
1. Mid of skull on top of ceramic urn and bones next to burning incense sticks
2. Close up of burning incense sticks
3. Mid of bones and branches being thrown to furnace
4. Close up...
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Garth Brooks, Connie Smith and Hargus "Pig" Robbins join the Country Music Hall of Fame
Garth Brooks is going into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
He is one of three new members announced Tuesday (6 March) at a press conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Veteran-era singer Connie Smith and blind keyboard player Hargus "Pig"...
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USA: WASHINGTON: ART NOUVEAU EXHIBIT
English/Nat
The world's biggest, best and most dazzling examples of Art Nouveau will be on public show in the U-S national capital from Sunday to the end of January next year.
Its a breathtaking exhibit that claims to be the largest,...