Over two millennia ago Julius Caesar started adjusting the 364 day calendar to get it back in synch with the seasons causing an audible groan from mechanical calendar makers everywhere. 1500 years later Pope Gregory added two more exceptions to tune it further: There is no leap day added on even…
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Thursday, February 28 was our last day of work. It has been a very satisfactory season. We accomplished most of what we set out to do, and more besides. Finding the footing of the Mut Temple’s 1st Pylon was particularly exciting, as was the successful restoration of Chapel D. We also…
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The National Gallery of Art, Washington (www.nga.gov) is seeking a Web Production Assistant to join its Web and New Media team. It’s an entry-level position in a creative and engaging environment. The position entails updating our Web calendar of events, exhibition schedules, and our online listings, and aiding the designers with…
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The biggest problem for a lot of people, both kids and adults, is not getting enough activity and… …
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One of my duties within the gallery planning is to search for images that we may not hold in our collections. I regularly contact other institutions, flip through books, and surf the net. For our batteries case, we were in need of an electro-plating or silverplating advertisement.
Browsing the internet let me to a website called Silver…
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High on my list of places to visit when I next travel to California is the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley. This undated photograph by John Davidson is clearly from the garden’s early days. It is an early image, perhaps, of the New World Desert garden, or that particular…
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Pelas palavras amigas e pela referência à minha tese à Margarida Rebelo, estimada colega de trabalho, vitíma da minha pouca atenção quando estou compenetrado no trabalho e não tenho a atenção devida aos desabafos, às perguntas ou à partilha de uma anedota chegada por e-mail.
Muito obrigado, Margarida! …
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Today we had a “All Hands Meeting”. Pretty standardstuff. Finance told us about how to get reimbursedfor medical bills, Human Resources told supervisors toget their Pre-season expectations turned in…I’ve beenhere four weeks…hmmm. Then, the highlight of theshow. Fecal Hand OralApparently some people are touching the food and…
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