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Tuesday 4 September 2018

Brazil National Museum Completely Gutted by Fire 04SEP2018

Brazil National Museum Completely Gutted by Fire
Inferno at Brazil's National Museum causes 'irreparable'
damage and grief By Claudia Dominguez, Flora Charner
and Holly Yan, CNN, September 3, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/02/americas/brazil-national-museum-fire-intl/index.html

Brazil National Museum fire: Key treasures at risk, BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45395774

Brazil museum fire: Funding cuts blamed as icon is gutted, BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45398084


Among the 20 million items presumed lost are a Maxakalisaurus
skeleton, 11,500 year-old Luzia remains, Pompeii fresco, and
countless Pre-Columbian artifacts. The museum contains a
meteorite collection, which includes the Bendegó Meteorite.

Luzia Woman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzia_Woman

Bendegó Meteorite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendegó_meteorite

https://meteoritosbrasileiros.webs.com/bendego1.html

Yours,

Paul H.

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