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Trip Advisor For Your Travel Vacation

Aug 4th
Natural History Museum
For teachers planning a tour for students in New York City, one of the best choices for a truly educational experience is the American Museum of Natural History, located at Central Park West 79th Street.
Among the numerous exhibitions of the museum, which is open 10:00 to 5:45, are dinosaurs Alive!, A large-format film narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Michael Douglas. Paleontologists shadows Museum of Cinema in a hunt for dinosaur remains in the Gobi desert in Mongolia and Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. The adventure includes the discovery of evidence that the descendents of dinosaurs still walk (or fly) among us.
The 40-minute film that includes footage from the museum, offers the first dinosaurs of the Triassic and Cretaceous creatures. realistic computer-generated animation helps to bring these ancient creatures to life.
Museum paleontologists Mike Novacek and Mark Norell’s graduate students with travel on an expedition in the Gobi desert. They follow in the footsteps of the museum scientist and adventurer Roy Chapman, who is believed to be the inspiration for the character of Indiana Jones. Andrews and his team found hundreds of dinosaur remains, including the first Velociraptor dinosaur eggs and nests.
Another good reason to include the American Museum of Natural History on a tour of the students is the cosmic collisions, a performance space narrated by award-winning actor, director and producer Robert Redford.
This theater experience launches visitors on a thrilling trip through space and time to explore cosmic collisions, hypersonic impacts that drive the dynamic and continuing evolution of the universe.
The exhibition includes views based on cutting edge research developed by Museum astrophysicists, scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other international colleagues. Cosmic collisions shows the dramatic and explosive encounters that shaped our solar system, changed the course of life on Earth, and continue to transform the galaxy.
Viewers will witness the violent face of the Sun, photographed by NASA satellites, which produces enormous ejections of material, with the resulting subatomic clashes producing the mysterious glow of the aurora borealis and aurora australis.
Cosmic Collisions also shows the creation of the Moon some five billion years ago when a wandering planetoid struck the Earth.
other collisions depicted include the violent encounter of two stars at the edge of the galaxy and the future collision of the Milky Way with the Earth’s closest neighbor, the Andromeda spiral galaxy, a cosmic accident that scientists predict will produce a new billion giant galaxy elliptical years from now.
The students and their teachers visited the American Museum of Natural History will also be able to take the display of a sample of mineral spectacular, a 1,000 pound stibnite with hundreds of sword-like, metallic blue-gray crystals sprouting from a rocky base. Stibnite (Sb2S3), a compound of antimony and sulfur elements, occasionally forms nests of delicate, six-sided crystals, but examples of this great and intricate are extremely rare.
The only copy on display was found by miners in the mine warning antimony in Jiangxi Province of southeast China. Stibnite is most commonly pulverized and heated to extract the antimony and brominated flame and then the motor bearings, so that it is considered a miracle survivor.
stibnite sample of the museum, the largest public display in the world, was probably formed about 130 million years ago, when the water heated by volcanic activity dissolved antimony and sulfur from the surrounding rocks and flowed between layers of limestone, leaving a dense band of stibnite and occasional pockets containing long, elegant crystals. stibnite crystals complete until the findings are rare, this example – are usually found broken due to their extreme fragility and the industrial nature of modern mining of antimony.
Other highlights of any tour of the American Museum of Natural History are the habitat group dioramas found in salons. Featuring precise depictions of geographical locations and the careful, anatomically correct mounting of specimens, the dioramas are windows onto a world of animals, their behavior, and their habitats. Many of the environments represented have been exploited or degraded, giving students and teachers in the museum tour as part of a student’s ability to travel not only across continents but across time

Jul 27th
Hotel Firenze
There are some hotels in Florence, in the heart of Italy, as the spreader Morandi, with a very interesting story.
This hotel is located in Via Laura, where two historical figures have left their mark of the Renaissance: Lorenzo de ‘Medici and Sister Domenica del Paradiso. Originally a country road crossing in some gardens, so aptly named Via Verzura then modified in via Ventura. When Lorenzo de ‘Medici decided to build a house for the courtesans, the name was changed to Via Laurentian, then shortened in Via Laura.
Sister Sunday was the daughter of a farmer from Pian di Ripoli, south of Florence, who worked on some land belonging to the Convent of Santa Brigida to Paradise. He entered the convent itself and taking the name of Sister Domenica del Paradiso, has developed a reputation for holiness. This does not stop her from giving her nuns a useful occupation and practical. He introduced the art of weaving cloth of gold and silver with great economic success.
Although she was a Dominican, she did not agree with Fra ‘Girolamo Savonarola, who never mentioned in his writings. That’s why he won the friendship of great antagonists of Savonarola, Medici, which enabled her to buy a large piece of land to one side of Via Laura (where the building stands today) for a mere 190 florins. In 1511 he began building a new convent, spending some 20,000 gold florins. It is not a case that has been made easy for a Dominican convent, loyal to the Medici, to be built just one block away from the church of Savonarola, S. Marco.
Later, Pope Clement VII, the grandson of Lorenzo (his father, Giuliano de ‘Medici, was killed in the famous Pazzi conspiracy) was very generous to Sister Domenica del Paradiso. She kept her old name in honor of his former convent even though the new one was called the monastery of the spreader after the small red cross that the nuns wore sewn on their clothes. The road was called Via della Crocetta for a long period of time.
Along this same road in 1502 canon Marco Strozzi founded another convent for six devout ladies: S. Maria degli Angeli, hereinafter referred to as S. Maria degli Angiolini, near the Palazzo della Crocetta, who later became the Archaeological Museum.
On the side of the street where the Hotel Morandi alla Crocetta now stands the monastery of the Crocetta had its gardens and cloisters. On this site, Sister Domenica del Paradiso had a vision of Jesus, recorded by a shrine built on the back of the sixteenth century, in Via Giusti. Morandi at the hotel to spreader, you can admire the seventeenth century frescoes depicting scenes from the life of Blessed Sunday of Paradise.
The convent was enlarged by the devout princess Maria Maddalena de ‘Medici, daughter of Grand Duke Ferdinand I. He lived in his palace of the spreader, built in 1619, and to visit the nuns more conveniently, had a bridge built across the street, which can still be seen in Via Laura. The same princess engaged the architect Luigi Orlandi in 1757 to redecorate and modernize the church containing the remains of now, the blessed Sunday of Paradise.
At the turn of the century, during the suppression of the monasteries, the monastery was the spreader condition and after various wanderings, the nuns settled in Via Arezzo, transferring the remains of Blessed Sunday of Paradise. The church was partially demolished and incorporated in the building where the law school of the University of Florence is, having already hosted the General Archive of Finance when Florence was the capital of Italy. In the same period, as the capital of Italy, in order to meet the immediate need of housing for employees of the State, the cloister and the convent were walled up to create new housing. The convent of S. Maria degli Angeli was transformed into the Grand Conservatory Lorain.