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Prehistory Museum, Echternach
The Prehistory Museum (''Musée de la préhistoire'') in Echternach, Luxembourg, houses a collection of prehistoric artefacts principally from Luxembourg, northern Europe and France testifying to the history of mankind for more than a million years. It is located in the 15th century Hihof building in the centre of the town. ''Le petit futé''. Retrieved 7 March 2011. The Hihof The Gothic Hihof building is adjacent to the church of Peter and Paul on the corner of the ''Rue du Pont''. At the beginning of the 19th century, it housed the local grammar school. The museum was inaugurated in 1984.. Retrieved 7 March 2011. The ...
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Echternach
Echternach ( lb, Iechternach or (locally) ) is a commune with town status in the canton of Echternach, which is part of the district of Grevenmacher, in eastern Luxembourg. Echternach lies near the border with Germany, and is the oldest town in Luxembourg. History The town grew around the Abbey of Echternach, which was founded in 698 by St Willibrord, an English monk from Ripon, Northumbria (in present-day North Yorkshire, England), who became the first bishop of Utrecht and worked to Christianize the Frisians. As bishop, he was the Echternach monastery's abbot until his death in 739. It is in his honour that the notable Dancing procession of Echternach takes place annually on Whit Tuesday. The river Sauer that flows past the town now forms the border between Luxembourg and Germany; in the later Roman Empire and under the Merovingian dynasty, Merovingians by contrast, the Sauer did not form a border or March (territory), march in this area. The Roman villa at Echternach (traces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small landlocked country in Western Europe. It borders Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembourg, is one of the four institutional seats of the European Union (together with Brussels, Frankfurt, and Strasbourg) and the seat of several EU institutions, notably the Court of Justice of the European Union, the highest judicial authority. Luxembourg's culture, people, and languages are highly intertwined with its French and German neighbors; while Luxembourgish is legally the only national language of the Luxembourgish people, French and German are also used in administrative and judicial matters and all three are considered administrative languages of the cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. Because it is on the North American Plate, North American Tectonic Plate, Greenland is included as a part of North America geographically. North America covers an area of about , about 16.5% of Earth's land area and about 4.8% of its total surface. North America is the third-largest continent by area, following Asia and Africa, and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, fourth by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2013, its population was estimated at nearly 579 million people in List of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America, 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's population. In Americas (terminology)#Human ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area.Sayre, April Pulley (1999), ''Africa'', Twenty-First Century Books. . With billion people as of , it accounts for about of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Despite a wide range of natural resources, Africa is the least wealthy continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, behind Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to different factors including geography, climate, tribalism, colonialism, the Cold War, neocolonialism, lack of democracy, and corruption. Despite this low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion and the large and young population make Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papua And New Guinea
The Territory of Papua and New Guinea, officially the Administrative Union of the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea, was established by an administrative union between the Australian-administered territories of Papua and New Guinea (the latter being a United Nations trust territory administered by Australia) in 1949. In December 1971, the name of the Territory changed to "Papua New Guinea" and in 1975 it became the Independent State of Papua New Guinea. Background Ancient history Archeological evidence suggests that humans arrived on New Guinea around 50,000 years ago. These Melanesian people developed stone tools and agriculture. Portuguese and Spanish navigators sailing in the South Pacific entered New Guinea waters in the early part of the 16th century and in 1526–27, Jorge de Menezes came upon the principal island "Papua". In 1545, the Spaniard Iñigo Ortiz de Retes gave the island the name "New Guinea" because of what he saw as a resemblance between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Museums In Luxembourg
This is a list of museums in Luxembourg. Luxembourg City *A Gadder *Abbey Museum *Am Tunnel *Casino Luxembourg *European Museum Schengen *General Patton Museum * Industry and Railway Park Fond-de-Gras *Konschthal Esch *Kulturhuef Asbl *Luxembourgish Aviation Museum *Luxembourg City History Museum *Luxembourg Science Center *MNM Rumelange *MUDAM *Muerbelsmillen *Musée de l'Ardoise *Musée Automobile - Conservatoire National de Véhicules Historiques *Musée de la caricature *Musée Dräi Eechelen *Musee the Family of Man *Musée d'Histoire(s) Diekirch *Musée Littéraire 'Victor Hugo' *Musée A Possen *Musee Rural *Musée Rural Asbl *Musée Rural Binsfeld *Museum-Memorial of Deportation * National Audiovisual Centre *National Mining Museum, Luxembourg *National Museum of History and Art *National Museum of Military History (Luxembourg) * National Museum of Natural History (Luxembourg) *National Resistance Museum, Luxembourg * Photothèque (Luxembourg) * Prehistory Museum, Echte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museums In Luxembourg
This is a list of museums in Luxembourg. Luxembourg City *A Gadder *Abbey Museum *Am Tunnel *Casino Luxembourg *European Museum Schengen *General Patton Museum *Industry and Railway Park Fond-de-Gras *Konschthal Esch *Kulturhuef Asbl *Luxembourgish Aviation Museum *Luxembourg City History Museum *Luxembourg Science Center *MNM Rumelange *MUDAM *Muerbelsmillen *Musée de l'Ardoise *Musée Automobile - Conservatoire National de Véhicules Historiques *Musée de la caricature *Musée Dräi Eechelen *Musee the Family of Man *Musée d'Histoire(s) Diekirch *Musée Littéraire 'Victor Hugo' *Musée A Possen *Musee Rural *Musée Rural Asbl *Musée Rural Binsfeld *Museum-Memorial of Deportation *National Audiovisual Centre *National Mining Museum, Luxembourg *National Museum of History and Art *National Museum of Military History (Luxembourg) *National Museum of Natural History (Luxembourg) * National Resistance Museum, Luxembourg *Photothèque (Luxembourg) * Prehistory Museum, Echterna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourist Attractions In Luxembourg
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring (other), touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tour (other), tours. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes". Tourism can be Domestic tourism, domestic (within the traveller's own country) or International tourism, international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Tourism numbers declined as a result of a strong economic slowdown (the late-2000s recession) between the second half of 2008 and the end of 2009, and in consequence of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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