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    Jorge Warner

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    found out that the man was Jorge Warner, who worked at Field Museum of Natural History. They knew he has been dead since March 20, 2017. According to his parents, Elena Warner, his mother, and his father Ervin Warner, he was an intelligent boy, on the A honor roll all throughout high school. After high school, he went to college for a History Degree, at Chicago State University. After college, he got a job at Field Museum of Natural History, because he loved to learn, and also loved to talk about

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    archaeologists can be located in museum databases though, some online information may be easier to find and more readily available than other websites. The Chicago Field Museum emphasizes more reliable, detailed online information about Mesoamerican art than the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, while the Peabody Museum fails to present and explain straight forward information on the cultural and religious aspects of Mesoamerica online. Both the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at

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    In the story you meet our characters Billing a fellow hunter, Kramer another hunter, Lesperance the assistant, Mr.Travis the tour guide and Eckels the main hunter. They start off by meeting at Time Safari Inc, to find out what they will be doing. They then find out what they will be doing and get into the time machine to go to the Jungle where they are supposed to complete a task . Where in the jungle we find out who our protagonist and antagonists. Our protagonist is Eckels because he has to kill

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    find the perfect fit. That was until we took a trip to a museum that became life changing. For as long as I can remember, I have loved to learn, particularly about history. Any time period, be it human history, or natural history, I was there, notepad in hand and a head full of questions. So when my family took a trip to Chicago, there was one place I knew I had to visit: The Field Museum. The Field Museum is a world-class natural history museum, housing collections of more than twenty million specimens

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    am writing about two museums that I would like to visit someday. The two museums are the Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History. I learned about the museums from their websites: http://www.si.edu/ and http://www.amnh.org/ , which offer a vast array of activities and information about the museums. The Smithsonian actually has several museums. Some of them are located in Washington DC, and some of the others are in New York. The American Museum of Natural History is located in New York

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    The Hidden History of the American Museum of Natural History One of the world’s greatest repositories for human knowledge regarding the natural sciences, the venerable American Museum of Natural History has been one of New York City’s premier cultural institutions since 1869. Since its establishment almost 150 years ago, the museum has come a long way towards advancing knowledge about natural history and science in the United States – not to mention serving as one of the best field trip destinations

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    Museums are information organizations, that is, they are about giving the most up-to-date information to their patrons. No matter how well their organization, commercially, is wrap it up that part of them remains the same. From the two museums that I visited, the Henry Ford Museum and the Museum of Natural History, are clearly about passing information to the patron. There are differences between them, however, it is the equivalences that I want to focus on as they are what bind them. The three areas

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    Field Museum Case Study

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    The Field Museum started as a Columbian exposition held in Chicago. Everyone who worked in the exposition saw the effect it had to the people who came to visit the event so a year later, Marshall Field agreed to invest on the museum project (Encyclopedia, 2005). In 1894, the museum was established in Jackson Park, but due to the decision of the committee to change the name, they decided to relocate the museum to Grant Park and leave the museum to be known as the Museum of Science and Industry. It

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    Try, if you would, to recall your last visit to a museum or other similar institution. Did you immediately accept the information presented to you as fact? Did you stop to think about how a particular exhibit represents a culture and whether or not it was accurate? Since their origin, museums were created for the purpose of preservation and interpretation of the material culture they exhibit, and have been the most widely accepted method for the dissemination of information pertaining to other cultures

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    History Of Mass Extinction Essay

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    The History of Earth's Mass Extinctions The four billion year history of earth has witnessed five mass extinctions, and some scientists believe that we are on the verge of the sixth.1[1] If we are in the midst of the next mass extinction, we are in the very early stages of an evolving, and escalating process. The most recent, or fifth mass of the extinctions occurred 65 million years ago at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. Images of an asteroid colliding with the

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