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11Niagara Falls Museum — Established 1827 Location Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada Website www.niagaramuseum.com/ Niagara Falls Museum was a museum most notable for being the oldest Canadian museum (1827), as well as for having housed the mummy of …
12Giampietro Campana — Carte de visite of Giampietro Campana Giampietro Campana (1808 – 10 October 1880), created marchese di Cavelli (1849), was an Italian art collector who assembled one of the nineteenth century s greatest collection of Greek and Roman sculpture and …
13British Museum — Infobox London museum name = British Museum established = 1753 collection = 7 million objects area = convert|13.5|acre|ha|1|abbr=on or convert|588000|sqft|m2| 2|abbr=on in 94 Galleries [ [http://www.uwosh.edu/cambridge/journals/morgan1.htm… …
14Albertus Seba — (May 12 1665, Etzel near Friedeburg May 2 1736, Amsterdam) was a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector.Born in East Frisia, Seba moved to Amsterdam as an apprentice and opened around 1700 a pharmacy near the harbour. Seba asked sailors and… …
15museums, history of — Introduction history of the institutions that preserve and interpret the material evidence of the human race, human activity, and the natural world. As such, museums have a long history, springing from what may be an innate human desire to… …
16List of Touhou Project characters — This is a list of the characters that belong to the Touhou Project, a series of games by ZUN from Team Shanghai Alice. Most Touhou characters reside in a fictional realm called Gensokyo, where humans and yōkai coexist. Though the yōkai do often… …
17Mary Anning — with her dog Tray, painted before 1842. The Golden Cap outcrop can be seen in the background Born 21 May 1799 …
18Richard Rawlinson — (February 3, 1690 April 6, 1755) was an English clergyman and antiquarian collector of books and manuscripts, which he bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford.He was a younger son of Sir Thomas Rawlinson (1647 1708), Lord Mayor of the City of… …
19Denis McLoughlin — (April 15, 1918–April 22, 2002) was a well known British illustrator. After a career that touched eight decades, British illustrator Denis McLoughlin gained a degree of long overdue recognition in the late 1990s for his hard boiled detective… …
20History of the transistor — Invention of the transistor= The first patent [patent|US|1745175|Julius Edgar Lilienfeld: Method and apparatus for controlling electric current first filed in Canada on 22.10.1925, describing a device similar to a MESFET] for the field effect… …
