On my mom’s side of the family, they are from Lithuania. This Baltic Amber necklace is a family heirloom. It was obtained by my great-great grandmother in Lithuania and was passed down from three generations. My great-great grandmother, Valeria Stankus, brought the necklace with her when she traveled to the United States from Lithuania in 1910. The people in Lithuania at the time were very impoverished and Valeria traveled to the United States to get a better life. Valeria and Helena came through Ellis Island and then settled in Chicago. Later, Valeria gave it to her daughter, Helena Ruzgis. When Helena was fifteen-years-old, she came over to the United States by herself. Helena had to travel through a couple of countries in order …show more content…
The discovery of documented natural amber began in 1854 in Juodkrante. Juodkrante was a coastal fishing village. Amber is a significant part of Lithuania’s national costume. In addition, it is used in the Lithuanian language. It is used in people’s names, restaurants, festivals, museums, and hotels. You can find amber in shops everywhere. Shops sell genuine Baltic Amber in forms of jewelry, souvenirs, sculptures, paintings, art on furniture and wall coverings. One of the museums which displays natural Baltic Amber is the diamond of the Botanical Garden in Palanga. At the museum, tourists can observe the amber artisans create amber jewelry. The other museum is located in Neringa. This museum hosts exhibits of rare collections in the house where Thomas Mann once …show more content…
A famous collection of amber was purchased by J.P. Morgan for one hundred thousand dollars. J.P. Morgan presented the collection to the American Museum of Natural History. The specimen was reexamined in 1993 and appeared to be 40-million-year-old Baltic Amber. There was a complete tree toad captured in the amber. The small toad was described as “The frog was complete with the middle of the head and right eye somewhat collapsed. The skin showed some pigmentation and bones could be seen. Air bubbles, common in most forgeries between the specimen and the resin, were
would appear to be big and old, probably scarred from weather and time, as a tree might look.
Viola Gregg Liuzzo, the eldest daughter of a coal miner and a teacher was born in California, Pennsylvania on April 11, 1925. Due to the Great Depression the family moved to the South, first settling in Georgia then eventually moving to Tennessee where Viola’s mother Eva Gregg, would secure a teaching position. During Viola’s childhood, the family continued to move around in the southern states, never staying in one place to allow her to complete a full year of schooling in one location. Against the parent’s better judgment she was allowed to discontinue her education in the tenth grade and would soon marry her first husband of one day at the young age of sixteen. The family would move to Michigan during World War II where Viola would soon meet and marry her second husband, George Argyris, in 1943. Soon after she would meet her life long friend Sarah Evans, an African American woman, with whom she shared a mutual background of a southern childhood. Six years later, the couple would divorce and in 1951 she would marry the union organizer for the Teamsters, Anthony James Liuzzo and have three additional children.
...vejoy, the team’s anatomy expert, hypothesized that the bone crushed and fossilized misshapen, causing the position of the bones to seem as if they “flared up like a chimp’s.” This initial conclusion might have been the correct one, but Lovejoy was part of Johanson’s team, and as such, his analysis was done under Johanson’s influence. Johanson concluded that this chimp-like bone was an illusion, and the reconstruction that followed resulted in a bipedal pelvis. It is unclear how certain the researchers can be that the final result was the original shape of the bone, but one thing is clear – the reconstruction was done under the influence of the initial and final conclusion. When the assembly and analysis of the bones are done by a team of researchers already pre-disposed to a specific hypothesis, it is little wonder that the evidence ends up fitting the hypothesis
She was born in Bronx, New York in 1964. She was born poor and raised on welfare for a couple of years. Around the age of 10 she moved to Englewood, New Jersey. When she was in college she travel a lot. She visited England, France, Spain, and Russia.
... over the print is correct. All of these facts are bittersweet though, since sample specimens have nothing to be compared to since no actual creature specimen has been collected. It can be concluded, however, that these remains did not come from any animal currently known to modern science.
Yogo sapphires from western Montana are crafted into fine jewelry. Copper bracelets, belt buckles, and cookware are all crafted in Montana (Av2
Like most companies, Tiffany & Company change certain aspects of the company in order to keep up with their ever changing customer. When Tiffany first started selling “real” jewelry, their products included watches, clocks, moccasins, belts, and silverware. Their most popular product by far were the items made of silver. In 1867, Tiffany had become so famous for their silver; they began supplying ...
In 1799 young Conrad Reed, a 12 year old boy, found a big shiny rock in Little Meadow Creek on the family farm in Cabarrus county North Carolina. Conrad lugged it home but the Reed family had no idea what it was and used it as a clunky door stop. Thinking that it must be some kind of metal, John Reed, Conrad’s father, took it to Concord North Carolina to have a silver smith look at it. The silver smith was unable to identify it as gold. John Reed hauled it back home. Three years later in 1802 he took the rock to Fayetteville North Carolina where a jeweler recognized it for what it was right away. The jeweler asked him if could smelt it down to a bar for him, John agreed. When John returned to the jeweler had a gold brick measuring six to eight inches long. It’s hard to believe but John Reed had no idea of the metals worth. The jeweler asked him what he wanted for it and John thought that a week’s wages would be fair so he sold it to the jeweler for $3.50. It is rumored that John purchased a calico dress for his wife and some coffee beans with his wi...
One of the spears was particularly interesting because of some of its markings. This spear still had the bloodstains of an animal. DNA testing was done and it was found to have belonged to an early species of buffalo. Interestingly enough, it also still had the fur from the animal imbedded into the wood.
The two men thought of the event as a forgery from early on. With the doubt Oakley had, he performed a chemical analyses on the bone fragments and exposed the whole fraud, showing that not a single bone from Piltdown discovered was authentic. It was discovered that the jaw bone found was actually from a sub-fossil orangutan and the skull discovered was from a modern human who had a thick skull, thought to be from an Australian aborigine. The bones had been stained with potassium dichromate to make them appear older. Other bones were treated chemically to change the calcium phosphate to gypsum, or calcium sulphate. But who would to this and
Moundville has been the focus of a large amount of archaeological interest due to its impressive earthworks. Clarence B. Moore produced well-publicized works. During his time in Moundville in 1905 and 1906, Moore pierced the mounds with “trial holes,” finding numerous burials and related artifacts. Unlike many treasure hunters, Moore donated the majority of his find...
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In traditional museums all the displays are behind glass and you are not allowed to touch anything. The items on display are often animals or artefacts are from very far away or have been donated by a wealthy collector. The displays are not changed very often. In more modern museums the displays are not only insect and animal from far away.
the emigration of Annie's mother, from the Dominican to Antigua, to Annie's eventual immigration to
The analysis of skeletal remains helps provide a biological identity that aids in the identification process Since bones and teeth are so durable they are extremely pivotal as they provide such a wealth of data and therefore can gather information such as gender, height, age, pathology, and ancestral origin. Skeletal analysis has been able to show ordeals that people in the Iron Age might have faced, for example, in 1942 two bog bodies were found on Sealand, Denmark. Evidence has shown that both of these bodies had trepanations performed on them, with one skull having a hole of 0.63 inches in the middle of their skull. Trepanation is one of the world’s oldest known surgery, which involves boring a hole into the person’s head, normally to remove a blood clot but also for the removal of spirits (Archive.archaeology.org, 2018). Other skeletal evidence has provided us with information such as the Lindow Man is estimated to have been between 1.68-1.73m tall and weighed around 64kg.