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Maine Mineral And Gem Museum
The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum (MMGM) is a geology museum located in Bethel, Maine. It displays a collection of rocks, minerals, and meteorites. History The museum was formed from the possessions within Perham's Maine Mineral Store, which was founded in 1919. Following the store's closure in 2009, Massachusetts-based philanthropistLawrence StifleranMary McFaddenpurchased the Perham collection. The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum then opened in 2019. Collection and research As of 2021, the museum holds 57,781 specimens, with 37,940 of those being minerals. Notable specimens contained by the museum are: * The largest chunk of the asteroid 4 Vesta on Earth. * The largest displays of lunar and Martian meteorites in the world, including the largest piece of the Moon known to exist on Earth. * Pertica, ''Petrica quadrifaria'', a fossil tree and Maine's List of U.S. state fossils, state fossil. * The largest known Martian meteorite, Taoudenni 002. * The oldest known volcanic rock, Er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethel
Bethel (, "House of El" or "House of God",Bleeker and Widegren, 1988, p. 257. also transliterated ''Beth El'', ''Beth-El'', ''Beit El''; ; ) was an ancient Israelite city and sacred space that is frequently mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Bethel is first referred to in the Bible as being near the place where Abram pitched his tent. Later, Bethel is mentioned as the location of Jacob's Ladder that Jacob named Bethel "House of God". The name is further used for a border city located between the territory of the tribe of Benjamin and that of the tribe of Ephraim, which first belonged to the Benjaminites and was later conquered by the Ephraimites. In the 4th century, Eusebius and Jerome described Bethel as a small village that lay 12 Roman miles north of Jerusalem to the right or the east of the road leading to Neapolis.Robinson and Smith, 1856, pp. 449–450. Most scholars identify Bethel with the modern-day village of Beitin, located in the West Bank, northeast of Ramallah. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
