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43 Armenian Cultural Sites Will Become Part of Silk Road Corridor
Yerevan :: Armenia | 1 month ago
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Enterprise Development and Market Competitiveness Project and the Armenian Monuments Awareness Project announced the Black Sea Silk Road Corridor project, a two-year initiative that fosters tourism development, cross-border cooperation and economic
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Japan prepares to nominate more sites for registration on global list
Okinawa :: Japan | over 1 year ago
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World Heritage list, which already has 16 properties from the nation. Among them is the Amami and Ryukyu island chain in Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures. The governments of the two prefectures hope to put the island chain on the natural heritage
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World Monuments Fund Releases 2012 Watch List of Threatened Cultural-Heritage Sites
Tiébélé :: Burkina Faso | over 1 year ago
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Text Size On Oct. 5, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced its 2012 list of 67 cultural-heritage sites in need of assistance. Since 1996, a bicentennial list has been compiled in hopes of highlighting sites in need of preservation. "The World
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Hiraizumi gets listed as Heritage site
Hiroshima :: Japan | almost 2 years ago
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Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee gives Japan its 12th cultural site, and follows the endorsement of the Ogasawara island chain south of Tokyo as the country's fourth natural heritage site. The registration
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Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites
The world has many ancient sites that are the fingerprints of civilizations of the past. Many of these sites are now in danger through neglect and the effects of vandals and even war and pollution.
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Youth connect to senior citizens
Thimphu :: Bhutan | over 2 years ago
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Escorted by young volunteers from Vast, many of them are travelling out of Punakha for the first time in their lives. Make a Wish project is aimed at bridging the generation gap, according to the founder of Vast, Kama Wangdi, popularly known as Asha
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Sharing secrets of Keauhou's cultural sites
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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Keauhou Beach Resort in particular has excelled in restoring and documenting its archaeological resources, including several on- and offshore heiau , but the Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort is catching up with the debut of a self-guided tour brochure to
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2012 security fears for cultural sites
Oxford :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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Cultural sites 'vulnerable to criminals' during 2012 Olympics Former Scotland Yard expert warns that security focus on London games will leave museums, galleries and cathedrals open to theft Dalya Alberge The Scream was stolen during the 1994 winter
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Army enlists robots to clear munitions near Pokai Bay
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | over 3 years ago
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The Army will undertake an unprecedented $2.5 million underwater robotics demonstration project beginning in October designed to remove or destroy up to 1,500 conventional munitions dumped off Pokai Bay. Tad Davis, the Army's deputy assistant
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Judge sustains Makua complaint
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | over 3 years ago
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A federal judge has sided with Hawaiian activists who want the Army to stop training in Makua Military Reservation, putting the military on notice that it will have to show that maneuvers in the Leeward valley would not contaminate ocean resources or
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