App Pompeï

Author : Rory, Cellan-Jones

Title : App Pompeii - Visiting museums via your phone

Date : April, 18, 2013

Extract :  "The British Museum is launching applications on Apple and Android devices which are designed to give users a virtual tour of the exhibition, with all kinds of multimedia add-ons.The app features interviews with experts, photos of the exhibits, and an interactive timeline which takes you through the story of life in Pompeii and Herculaneum before and after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD.All of these institutions are trying to achieve the same thing - delivery of a cultural experience to people who may never be able to come through their doors.In harder times, cultural organisations are trying to do two things: boost their audiences and balance the books."

Index terms :  Apple / Androïd / Applications / Pompeï / Technology / The British museum

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Source : BBC news

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Un bombardier nazi

Author : A. Kaplan, Jeremy

Title : RAF Museum to raise nazi bomber from 1940 Blitz out of English Channel

Date : May, 07, 2013

Extracts :  « A British museum has begun the process of lifting the only Nazi bomber to survive the World War II »

« The Dornier Do-17 has a 60-foot wingspan and stretches about 50 feet; it's constructed of several aluminum sections. The plane is relatively light, but chloride in the ocean as well as the life teaming there have worked on it over the 70 years since it last saw sunlight. The RAF Museum is currently on site assembling a special lift to raise the plane from the sea floor, a process that will take a few hours at most, likely during the last week of May »

«“We feel that this is a unique survivor, the only German bomber from the Blitz that’s left. And it’s hugely important to British national history,” he said. »

Index terms :  Luftwaffe / Hitler / World war 2 / Blitz / Nazi bombers

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Source : Fox news.com

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L'extension du British Museum

Author : Brown, Mark

Title : British Museum's £135 extension is on time and on budget, say curators

Date : April, 29, 2013

Extract : " Spence is the British Museum's head of collections, and on Monday he helped give a progress report on one of the biggest and most important developments in the museum's 260-year-old history: a £135m extension due to open next March to house its new world conservation and exhibitions centre (WCEC). "

Index terms : The British museum / World conservation and exhibitions centre (WCEC) / Neil MacGregor

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Source : The Guardian

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Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker Bertolucci to head jury at 70th Venice Film Festival

By Associated Press
May 9, 2013

Extract : "..The Venice Film Festival has announced that Oscar-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci will chair the jury for the 70th Venice Film Festival..." 

Index terms : Bertolucci ; Film Festival ; jury

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URL : http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/oscar-winning-italian-filmmaker-bertolucci-to-head-jury-at-70th-venice-film-festival/2013/05/09/d646ef8a-b8a8-11e2-b568-6917f6ac6d9d_story.html

Site : washingtonpost.com

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Dormant Beauty (La Bella Addormentata)

By Megahey Noel

April 27, 2013.

Toni Servillo and Alba Rohrwacher as Uliano and Maria, father and daughter

Abstract :Critic of Dormant Beauty. The film director, Marco Bellochio, treats questions of life and death. But he confesses that other opinions exist.

Storyline : "A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state."

Index terms : mother daughter relationship ; religion ; drama ; based on true story ; politician

Found with : Scoop.it

URL : http://www.takeonecff.com/2013/dormant-beauty-bella-addormentata

Site : takeonecff.com

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"Les arts de l'effervescence. Champagne! " c'est jusque fin mai à Reims

Author: L'union.fr

Title: "Les Arts de l'effervescence.Champagne !" c'est jusque fin mai à Reims

Date: April 28, 2013

Abstract: Reims (Marne). You have untils May 26th to surrender to the museum of fine arts of Reims and go to see the exhibition The Arts of the excitement. Champagne! This exhibition is a perfect meeting of art and champagne and allows you to discover more than 370 works; as the oldest England glass of champagne...

Index terms :  wine tourism in Champagne Ardenne, champagne, art, painting

Found with: Google alerts,

Site: L’union.presse.fr

Url:  http://www.lunion.presse.fr/article/culture-et-loisirs/les-arts-de-leffervescence-champagne-cest-jusque-fin-mai-a-reims

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This Startup Has Built A New Kind Of Smartphone For The Blind

Author : Julie Bort

Date : April 29, 2013

Extract : « The phones were specially designed around a touch system that every blind person, knows, the 12-key number pad. Every screen has the apps and commands arranged in a square. Simply move the finger and the phone reads the command. Lift the finger off and it executes the command. »

Index terms : Blind people, visually impaired people.

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Site : San Francisco Chronicle

URL : http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/This-Startup-Has-Built-A-New-Kind-Of-Smartphone-4472901.php

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