More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls - and thousands of years after they were written - Israel has put 5000 images of the ancient biblical artifacts online in a partnership with Google. The digital library ...
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The third meeting of the U.S.-Iraq Joint Coordination Committee for Cultural and Educational Cooperation took place in Baghdad on December 17, 2012, underscoring the deep and broad collaboration between the Government of the United States ...
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Joint Statement of the Iraq – U.S. Cultural and Educational Cooperation Joint Coordination Committee Pursuant to the 2008 Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq, the third ...
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More companies have dipped a toe into the Federated ID waters. But has the technology finally made it to prime time? Not really, according to two academic scholars specializing in the economics of information security technology. Many ...
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LED lighting is bringing the third revolution in human lighting history after incandescent lamp and fluorescent lamp. It is not only energy saving and environmental friendly,but also will bring the lighting industry into electronic digital ...
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On 19-21 November 2012 the twenty partners involved in an EU funded research programme held their kick-off meeting in Wageningen,The Netherlands.Led by Wageningen UR Food&Biobased Research,the 4-year project has the goal to develop a new ...
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The Internet Archive, a non-profit project established to act as an online library of that preserves digital information, has to date offered up nearly a petabyte of content via the BitTorrent file-sharing site. In a blog post, The ...
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Google,working in partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority,posted about 5,000 images of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls online Tuesday. Pieces of the text going online include one of the earliest known copies of the Book of ...
The 300-year period in Chinese history from the Wei and Jin Dynasty (220-420) to the Southern and Northern Dynasty(386-581), witnessed great social turmoil and an intensive cultural amalgamation amongst various ethnic groups. The Sui ...
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Cuotaiji is a kind of ancient drama that only exists in Luoga stockaded village in Bandi Town of Weining Yi, Hui and Miao Autonomous County of Guizhou Province." Cuotaiji" is the transliteration of the equivalent in Yi language of Bandi ...
As Apple prepares to start selling its new iPad Mini,workers at a Chinese factory that manufactures the product have been enduring chemical fumes,12-hour work shifts and alleged company mismanagement as they assemble the new device. "The ...
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Jiangyong Nv Shu is the only existing female characters in the world. It is a writing system exclusively used by women in the Jiangxu area of Jiangyong County of just 20,000 people in the south tip of Hunan Province. Nv Shu characters are ...
The shadow puppet play, also called "shadow play", is a drama form in which the player holds the human figures that are engraved by the animal hides with colored paintings, and reflected on the curtain through the light, singing and dancing ...
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In China, there are 1.594,827 people of the Bai nationality Most of them reside around the Ehai Lake in the Dili Bai Autonomous Prefecture in the west of Yunnan Province. The rest live elsewhere in Sichuan, Guizhou and Hunan provinces. ...
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Also known as "harmonica" or "bamboo reed", Chinese mouth organ is a folk musical instrument enjoyed a long history. It comes in various shapes and sizes. The instrument is popular among a dozen or so ethnic groups, such as Yi, Lahu, Naxi, ...