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Application open until October 08, 2019 for the „Talente“ (talents) competition at the Munich International Skilled Trades Fair next year
Craftspeople until their mid-thirties may enter with special works in design or technology respectively
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Painted pebbles: taking a stone home, painting it and then leaving it again for others as a friendly greeting
„Rocking“ is a new attitude on its way across the world
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
„Minne“ is the name for vases by designer Katja Dahl made of Emerald Larvikite stone from Norwegian Lundhs company. They were shown at the 1000 Vases Exhibiton during Dubai Art Week 2019
New photos from Hubble Space Telescope show that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot continues to shrink
Stormy world: facinating is the color palette in the clouds swirling in the gas planet’s turbulent atmosphere
Biocolonizer species are putting the conservation of the granite at Machu Picchu at risk
Researchers from the University of the Basque Country identify the role played by lichens, algae, mosses, and cyanobacteria
The 45th edition of WorldSkills will take place from August 22nd to 27th 2019 in the Russian city of Kazan
Some 1400 young craftspeople including stonemasons will submit to challenges revolving around their work and will compete against one another
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
An ancient Athenean neighborhood from the 4th century BC until the 12th century AD was opened as part of the Acropolis Museum in Athens
Application open for the 2020 European Heritage Awards until October 31, 2019
Out of 30 winners, 4 Grand Prizes worth 10,000 € each are given to outstanding projects of conservation and restoration
Tiberius Claudius, married to Messalina and Agrippina, was not so bad a Roman emperor as Seneca wrote
The exhibition at the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome reveals his care for the people, his economic and legislative reforms and great public works
Simulating meteorite impacts in the lab
Scientists monitor the response of feldspar minerals to rapid compression
Only a short flash: scientists film an impact of a meteorite on the moon during the eclipse in January 2019
The space rock with a mass of 45 kg and 30 to 60 cm in diameter hit the moon at 61,000 kilometers an hour
EU calls for applications for a new pilot project mapping Jewish Cemeteries in Europe
Budget of 1.05 million € for 18 months / The work of the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiatiative shall be complemented
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Only a small path with precipices of several 100 m on both sides leads to the Altenalp Türm summit in the Swiss Alps
„Turner. The Sea and the Alps“ in the Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland until October 13, 2019
The British painter is one of the first to depict the Swiss mountains and lakes / Travel nerves for high altitudes
„Upcycling“ of broken stone tools was a stone-age-behavior to get special utensils for precision and accuracy tasks
Finds in the Qesem Cave near Tel Aviv show that people 400,000 years ago had a sophisticated toolkit