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    The La Plata Museum (Spanish: Museo de La Plata) is a natural history museum in La Plata, Argentina. It is part of the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y...
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    La Plata (Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈplata]) is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the 2022 census, the Partido has a...
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    the La Plata University Radio, the La Plata University Press and numerous academic centers for research and outreach including La Plata Museum of Natural...
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    Province. The name "Mar del Plata" is short for "Mar del Rio de la Plata," and has the meaning of "sea of the Rio de la Plata basin" or "adjoining sea to...
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    La Plata (/ləˈpleɪtə/ -PLAY-tə) is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The population was 10,159 at the 2020 census. It is the county...
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    Aires, where he took charge of La Plata Museum and the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the National University of La Plata. He received several awards during...
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    The La Plata dolphin, franciscana or toninha (Pontoporia blainvillei) is a species of river dolphin found in coastal Atlantic waters of southeastern South...
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    years in Argentina as director of the Anthropological Section of the La Plata Museum and professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He became an authority...
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    the Spanish colony of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, located around the Río de la Plata in South America – in present-day Argentina and Uruguay...
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    Puerto Plata, officially known as San Felipe de Puerto Plata; (French: Port-de-Plate) is a major coastal city in the Dominican Republic, and capital of...
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    Francisco Moreno (category Academic staff of the National University of La Plata)
    Moreno served as the first Director of Museo de la Plata, guiding it until 1906. As director of La Plata Museum of Natural History, Moreno sacked Florentino...
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    museum in Tacoronte. In the nineteenth century it was sold to the La Plata Museum in Argentina, reaching the hands of an unidentified collector. They...
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  • Osteologists frequently work in the public and private sector as consultants for museums, scientists for research laboratories, scientists for medical investigations...
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    near Alma, Colorado and donated to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Exhibit in La Plata Museum, Argentina. The Alma Rose specimen from the Sweet...
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    Casa Rosada (category Museums in Buenos Aires)
    and of Argentina. The site, originally at the shoreline of the Río de la Plata, was first occupied by the "Fort of Juan Baltazar of Austria", a structure...
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  • From Sudan to Argentina (Spanish: De la Nubia a La Plata) is a 2022 Argentine-Sudanese documentary film written and directed by Ricardo Preve. The feature...
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    The Museum of the Sea was a museum of marine biology and aquarium in the seaside city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. The museum closed its doors in September...
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    Jurásico de Patagonia. Instituto del Museo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Notas del Museo de La Plata, Paleontología 12(95):1–17 Pol, D.; Gomez,...
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    and colleagues mentioned an additional femur that is housed in the La Plata Museum under the specimen number MLP-DP 46-VIII-21-3. Though not as strongly...
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  • Museum, Dunedin Te Papa, Wellington – Mehit-em-Wesekht, c. 300 BCE La Plata Museum Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum of Curitiba – Tothmea List of museums of...
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  • whom Moreno established as Head of the Paleontology Department at the La Plata Museum. In addition, Emilio Frey, son of a Swiss immigrant and educated in...
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  • Argentinian entomologist and archaeological collector. He worked at the La Plata Museum. Karl was born in Munich to Christian Bruch. Christian ran a printing...
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    terror birds and other apex predators of the region. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Vol. 1. Taller de Publicaciones del Museo. January 26, 1891. "Mindat.org"...
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    The Museum of Jewellery in the Vía de la Plata (Alhajas en la Vía de la Plata in Spanish) is located in the center of the town of La Bañeza (Province of...
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  • La Plata is a ghost town in Deaf Smith County, Texas, United States. It was originally named Grenada and was established in 1890 by the XIT Ranch as a...
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    was the inspiration for the Blue Villa in Alain Robbe-Grillet's 1965 novel La Maison de rendez-vous. The Villa was built in 1891 by Manuel Ocampo, Victoria’s...
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    (IFAO). In October 2014, he became the 18th director-general of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC). On 23 March 2016, al-Anani became the Minister...
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    del Palomar Mariani-Teruggi House, La Plata House of Ricardo Balbín, La Plata La Plata Museum Curutchet House, La Plata Church of Our Lady of Carmen, Lobos...
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    to Argentina with Carl Emanuel Burckhardt in 1896. On behalf of the La Plata Museum and the Argentine government, he explored the Andes and crossed them...
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    of that year, he met in the Port of La Plata, where an uncle was working with the director of the La Plata Museum, with the expert Francisco P. Moreno...
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