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basedona McCord Museum and drawings provide a
exhibition originally ' montage of images. that
presented in Montreal vividly recall Canadian
during the 1976 Olympic sporting life in the 19th and
Year. The exhibit is an early 20th centuries.
‘evocation of the important In conjunction with the
part amateur sport once display of Images of Sport
played in the whole social in Early Canada”, the
fabric Canadian life as it was National Museum of Man
reflected in. the country’s will be presenting the |
arts and crafts. _,, recently released official
The exhibition is divided film on the 1978 Summer
into four main sections: Olympics in Montreal. The
winter, summer, spring and English version of the film
fall-reminding us that in an will be screened on Satur:
earlier day sportsand games day, February 11, while the
were confinedto theseasons. French version will be
In each section there is a screened on Sunday,
scene with models in spor- February 12. Both presen-
ting costume;a ‘group of tations willtake place at 2:00
snowshoerd in blankét coats p.m., intheauditorium of the
and ceintures flechees, 8 Victoria Memorial Museum
woman riding side-saddle, a Building, corner of Metcalfe
couple in once fashionable sand McLeod. Admission will
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;Canada” at the National Museum of Man, tried out her curling skills with an earlier version
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_NEW YORK: (Reuter) —
Explorer, linguist and
scholar George
Michanowsky thinks that a
star that died in view of
ancient man some 6,000
years ago may have had a
profound effect on the
development of civilization.

His theory, expounded in
the book The Once and
Future Star published by
Manthorn, is that the

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? ROME (Reuter!) — Italy is

compiling a computer
every’

catalogue 0
- significant work of art in the
“country to preserve: its

national treasures and
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. The record will eventually “
contain milllon3 of items on
architecture, .pain
sculpture, popular: culture -
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record” Italy’a. artistic

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last’ century but was
abandoned after the First
World War, oo
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catalogue .incluces every
possible aspect of art an
it was deelded -
that every item should have
at least one: photograph.
.The catalogue now has .
sections Which include such
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‘a million new cards,

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work: of art, its source, its
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for storage in-@ computer.

But the computer end still
is largely ‘In experimental
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event, Michanowsky said.

" impact was the. most im-

-so many of our:inyths which

_ beeame a: pervasive theme

_ eredit to the gigantic star of
‘the god Ea for ‘having an

_ because | waa not until 1968-
" that science learned of its

southern hemisphere into a
supernova and its impact, on
Sumerian life is a phrase

tablet” in the British
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giganflestar of the God Ea in
the constellation Vela of the
God Ea”
The god Ea, served as the .

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it with saving mankind
at the se of himee?. Ea
was held to be the source of °
all that is good and the

AROUSED, IMAGINATION
The - supernova, - the
flameout of a dying star,
possibly visible-for years,
played on the imagination of .
ancient man as -ne. other

“Ie caused ocean tur-
bulence and strongly af-
fected the melting processes
af the Arctic ice masses and
it raised the level of the
world's aceans,” he sald. |

“The supernova's. gamma
raya also had a biological

impact.
“But the. psychological

portant. It was the culture-
ding factor. It explains

travelled. westwards: from
Mesopotamia.” . .
Michanowsky~ said the
legend behind the star is that -
it would reappear, and that

in the Near ast, The theme

transcends .ariy particular —
religion, he added. -
“Seeing the star was an
original cultural stimulus,”
he sald. ‘It’ triggered an
interest in systematic. sky
observations andit became a
stimulus around which
things organized them--
selves,” ‘

But scientists never gave

impact on civilization

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