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"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three...
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Historic preservation is the stewardship of the important places from our past, including buildings, structures, sites, districts, and landscapes. These places comprise the cultural resources of Colorado. A survey documents the physical evidence of the past that expresses and contributes to the history and identity of a region.
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Managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, the standing architecture at Moose Tower is threatened by both natural and anthropogenic impacts. Moose Tower is an impressive free standing structure with a number of associated structures and infrastructure surrounding including several granaries and a reservoir. The tower is composed of three rooms set on top of a large boulder several meters from the cliff...
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Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after the hunt begins that the enormity of the plan comes into focus: the bank theft is just the first...
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In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Toma´s discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences...
54) Trojan odyssey
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Dirk Pitt has recently discovered that he has two grown children and together they begin an adventure of a lifetime. Evil forces are behind a brown tide which threatens the world and they work together to fight the evil.
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As the concern for long-term curation of artifacts grows in the United States, more responsibility will fall on the archaeologist and the laboratory assistant to provide adequate care for artifacts during and after excavation. In this article various systems are presented for packing and storing the range of artifacts found on historic sites in North America. A list of suppliers of some materials mentioned in the text is included.