| The Baltic Sea and its Amber |
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| Baltic Cruise Jun 17 - Jul 5 2006 Arrival in Frankfurt Copenhagen Viking Museum With the group Departure Setting sail Gdansk, Poland Vilnius, Lithuania Riga, Latvia To Sweden Stockholm To Finland Helsinki Tallin, Estonia St. Petersburg |
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| Eckehard Simon |
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| Lecture I |
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| The Origin of the Baltic Sea and Its Amber |
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| Part I (slides 1-13) How the Baltic Sea was formed |
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| Part II (slides 14-33) Collecting, Harvesting, and Working Baltic Amber |
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| Lecture II |
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| Amber in Science and Art |
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| Part I (slides 1-20) Amber in Science |
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| Part II (slides 21-35) Amber in Art |
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| Lecture III |
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| The Catherine Palace Amber Room in “Czar’s Village” near St. Petersburg |
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| Part I (slides 1-20) How and why the Prussian king had it built, how the Czars acquired and enlarged it. |
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| Part II (slides 21-53) How it was lost, the great search it sparked, and how Russian artists restored it. |
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| . . . Lectures on board |