Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Hosts the Terracotta Army

On June 27th Ancient Digger reported that The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will host the Canadian premiere of The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army from June 26, 2010. There has now been a change to the venue.

UPDATE: Chinese officials' enforcement of government policy is limiting the time the terracotta warriors can travel out of the country to one year.

Therefore, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) will be the FINAL stop for The  Warrior Emperor as tour dates that followed (at the Glenbow Museum in  Calgary and the Royal BC Museum in Victoria BC) were cancelled in late  September.

On view from February 12 to June 26, 2011 at the MMFA, The Warrior  Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army features the largest collection of  artifacts ever displayed in North America related to Qin Shihuangdi, the  First Emperor of a unified China. Nearly 1/3 of the 240 remarkable  objects including funerary figurines; paintings and sculptures;  architectural elements; arms and armor; ornaments in jade and gold, and  earthenware objects excavated from the largest burial complex in China  (the greatest archeological site in the 20th century since King Tut’s  tomb) have never been before on public display internationally.

Highlights on view at the MMFA include the following national treasures  and newly discovered artifacts dating as far back as 2,200 years:

The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army showcases one of the  most significant archaeological finds in history: the 1974 discovery,  in Shaanxi province in north-central China, of thousands of life-sized  terracotta sculptures of Chinese warriors. These extraordinary figures,  along with countless treasures yet to be uncovered in the elaborate  underground tomb complex of China’s First Emperor, were created 2,200  years ago, during the Qin dynasty. 


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The History of the Hawaiian Hula Dance

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Hula was a movement, or rather a celebration, of deities and ritually marked occasions. The Hula dance displayed the history of the peoples and it embodied a wonderfully delightful pastime enjoyed by deities and humans. There are several stories that speak of the origins of Hula, however one is widely accepted, that being the creation of Kapo.

Kapo was the first dancer and teacher of the Hula dance, so it’s not at all surprising that the true origin of Hula was traced back to Kapo.

Read more: The Hawaiian Hula Dance

The Historical Background of Cafe Pedrocchi

During the latter half of the 18th century and the early 19th century Padua, Italy saw the establishment of many coffee-houses used for literary and social gatherings. There were close to forty coffee-house keepers fisted, one of whom was the Bergamasque, Antonio Pedrocchi and it is due to him that one of the most important European coffee-houses was built, the Pedrocchi Café.

Antonio Pedrocchi, the entrepreneur, founded the Café Pedrocchi during the first half of the 19th century. Now considered the finest and most beloved coffeehouse in Italy, Café Pedrocchi embodies......

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La Casa Tomada: The Haunted House Presented at Daytona State College

Buenas Tardes,

This week, on Thursday November 5th, there will be a play called La Casa Tomada at Daytona State College at 7:00pm. Admission is free to the public.

There will be a raffle with door prizes including:

• A personal tennis lesson
• Spanish bottle of wine
• Gift certificates to restaurants
• And much, much more.

Raffle tickets cost $1.00 for one, 6 for $5.00

Dress is casual.

The play is entirely in Spanish, however you'll still be able to understand the plot even if you don't speak the language.

I'll be singing in Spanish, so if you'd like to meet me in person, I'll be there. I will also have the part of the writer, ironic isn't it?

The play is in the Theater Center (building 220) at 7:00pm November 5th, so don't be late.

Espanol

Esta semana, el jueves 5 de noviembre, habrá un juego llamado La Casa Tomada en la universidad del estado de Daytona en 7:00 P.M. La admisión está libre al público.

Habrá un raffle con los premios de la puerta incluyendo:

Una botella española de la lección personal del tenis de vales del vino a los restaurantes y a mucho, mucho más.

Los boletos de Raffle cuestan $1.00 para uno, 6 para $5.00 que el vestido es ocasional.

El juego está enteramente en español, no obstante usted todavía podrá entender que el diagrama aunque usted no habla la lengua.

El juego está en el centro del teatro (edificio 220) en 7:00 P.M. el 5 de noviembre, no es tan atrasado.