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    The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of...
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    Key events affecting the British Geological Survey, 1967–1998 (Technical Report, WQ/99/1 ed.). British Geological Survey. "Museum 'cocoon' prepares to open"...
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  • The British Museum algorithm is a general approach to finding a solution by checking all possibilities one by one, beginning with the smallest. The term...
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    Ottoman Greece and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and now held in the British Museum in London. The majority of the...
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  • The Secretum (Latin for "hidden away") was a British Museum collection of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that held artefacts and images deemed...
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    display in major Western museums such as the National Museum of Natural History, the British Museum, the Louvre and the Royal Museums of Art and History. Several...
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    British Museum was a station on the London Underground, located in Holborn, central London. It was latterly served by the Central line and took its name...
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    moved to the new British Library building at St Pancras, London, but the Reading Room remains in its original form at the British Museum. Designed by Sydney...
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  • The British Museum is a museum of human culture and history located in Bloomsbury, London. British Museum may also refer to: British Museum (Natural History)...
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    at the British Museum could not be returned. The Act also made the Natural History Museum an independent organisation from the British Museum, with its...
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    The British Motor Museum in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England holds the world's largest collection of historic British cars, with over 300 cars on display...
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    Postal Museum (formerly the British Postal Museum & Archive) is a postal museum run by the Postal Heritage Trust. It began in 2004 as The British Postal...
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  • to restore the tablet's power, but that they are in the British Museum. Larry convinces museum curator Dr. McPhee, who was fired due to the planetarium...
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    A History of the British Museum Library, 1753–1973. London: British Library. ISBN 0712345620. Howard, Philip (2008). The British Library, a Treasure...
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    collections" of the British Museum in 1753. It is now one of the major collections of the Department of Manuscripts of the British Library. Cotton was...
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  • accounts to the British Government. The actual governance of the British Museum, however, is delegated to its board of trustees. At the museum's inception its...
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    Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. As with other national British museums, entrance is free. The V&A covers 12.5 acres (5.1 ha) and 145 galleries...
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    Drawings: Closer to the Master (British Museum, London 23 March–25 June 2006). Catalogue by Hugo Chapman. London: British Museum, 2005. 203 colour and 80 b&w...
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    Museum in Athens and (controversially) at the British Museum in London (see Elgin Marbles). Additional pieces are at the Louvre, the National Museum of...
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  • History Museum, formerly known as Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) is a series of scientific journals published by the British Museum, and...
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    University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-966226-5. "Wall panel; relief British Museum". The British Museum. Stephanie Dalley (1993), "Nineveh after 612 BC", Altorientalische...
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  • Ethnography at the British Museum describes how ethnography has developed at the British Museum. The ethnographical collection was originally linked to...
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    The British Lawnmower Museum is a museum dedicated to the history of the lawnmowers in Southport, Merseyside, northern England. The museum has over 300...
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    "papyrus | British Museum". The British Museum. "papyrus | British Museum". The British Museum. "papyrus | British Museum". The British Museum. "papyrus...
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  • Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (also known as Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian or just Night at the Museum 2) is a 2009...
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  • The British Museum Quarterly was a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the British Museum. It described recent acquisitions and research concerning...
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  • Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 25, pp. 1–7, 1925. H. R. Hall, "Ur and Eridu: The British Museum Excavations of 1919", Journal...
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  • The British Museum is Falling Down (1965) is a comic novel by British author David Lodge about a 25-year-old poverty-stricken student of English literature...
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    The British Museum Act 1753 (26 Geo. 2. c. 22) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The act provided for the purchase of the Museum or Collection...
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  • The British Museum Catalogues of Coins was a series envisioned and initiated by Reginald Stuart Poole, Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals, at...
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