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
The skeleton had a hideous impact to the community and was predicted by local investigators to be reasonably modern. To get better understanding and avoid confusion, a bone sample was sent to a laboratory in the USA for investigation and analysation using series of scientific
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...
For the first step, cloning is only made possible through a perfect sequence of DNA (meaning no gaps). Doctor John Hammond, the leading scientist in the revolutionary novel, knew this. The man bought several amber mining facilities with no publicized reason. Turned out, amber, a fossilized tree resin, held the golden properties Hammond was searching for. Since amber turns hard, the resin is able to preserve any specimen that lands in it. When Dr. Hammond received the call from Juanito Rostagno, an amber miner, the wait for
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.
The Eastern Woodland people also made jewelry such as gorgets, armbands, earrings, and necklaces. The gorgets were created with pendants with two holes in them from shell, slate or shale stone. They were strung with lacing and worn around the neck. Armbands were typically made of metal such as copper. They also made them out of bones. Metal armbands could be simple, narrow bands or stamped and decorated. They were also made of beaded leather strips or finger woven wool. Earrings were simple metal hoops with beads or pendants dangling from them. This type of jewelry was also worn in piercings through the septum of their noses. Necklaces were made from a wide variety of materials. Pendants were made from bone, shell, stone and metal. Beads made from shell, stone, metal, wood and glass were strung in single or multiple strands. More intricate necklaces were made by stringing bear claws or bird claws. Overall, the Eastern Woodlands people made many items to help them with their everyday lives and I think that they were very talented and creative for being able to make these items such as the jewelry and all the
age eleven year. She was then sent to Amsterdam by a program in the aid of
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
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 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.
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 ...
the emigration of Annie's mother, from the Dominican to Antigua, to Annie's eventual immigration to