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Michelangelo's David Is To Be Returned To Italy
 



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Michelangelo's David is being returned to Italy . . .



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Red Square Reflection
The Kremlin's Spassky Tower and passers-by are reflected in the wet cobblestones of Moscow's Red Square on February 13, 2003.

A Galaxy's Sharp Edge
An image produced by the Hubble Space Telescope, released March 1, 2003, shows a perfect "edge-on" perspective of the galaxy NGC 4013, with huge clouds of dust and gas extending above the galaxy's main disk.

Light of the World
This composite image shows what Earth looks like at night. City lights highlight developed areas of the planet.

Mother and Child
An ethnic Albanian refugee from Selce, Macedonia, and her child look through the window of a bus as they arrive in Prizren in Kosovo on March 27, 2003, after fleeing the fighting in Macedonia two days earlier.

A Useful Lesson
A German Shepherd named Pepper sits with two endangered Bengal tiger cubs and a cougar cub, far right, at the home of veterinarian Rob Zammit outside Sydney, Australia.

Great White Whale
A beluga whale swims in a tank at the Vancouver Aquarium.

Puppy Love
Crystal, a year-old black Labrador-Dalmatian mix, peers through a heart-shaped hole in a fence.

The Gathering Storm
Dark clouds roll over Blair, Neb., on May 9, 2003, bringing thunder and flashes of lightning.

The Little Duckling Who Could
Mallard ducklings wait their turn May 14, 2003 as a sibling struggles to make it up a curb in South Bend, Ind. The mother, who had already cleared the obstacle, flirted with traffic for 20 minutes before leading her offspring safely across the busy road.

Mid-East Flare-Up
A Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to fire stones at Israeli soldiers from behind a barricade of burning tires May 23, 2003.

Rainbow Times Two
An afternoon storm brought a double rainbow over downtown Chillicothe, Ohio, on May 27, 2003.

Fury From Above
Lightning ripples over the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 14, 2003.

Grand Old Night
Tanner Mann, 8, of Hortonville, Wis., gets a good seat on top of his mother's car July 4, 2003 for the fireworks show at Riverside Park in New London.

Un-Bear-Able Heat
Koluk the polar bear goes headfirst into the pool at the Albuquerque Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, N.M., on July 15, 2003.

Stellar Light Show
From ground-based telescopes, the "ant nebula" resembles the head and thorax of a garden ant.

Our meetings are the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month
From 7p.m. to 9p.m.
Conference room of Our Savior's Lutheran Church
1310 Main Street
in Eau Claire Wi
Coffee/Tea and cookies are served free of charge
French language is spoken for half an hour
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Description
Year 2005
Face of Africa
A display of 200 pictures of the Continent of Africa and its people is now made available for viewing to all the schools located in the Chippewa Valley. This wonderful collection was made with the help and co-operation of the University of Madison- African Studies Program, the Chippewa Valley Convention & visitors Bureau, and Wisconsin Arts Board, and the many weeks of diligent work by the Steering Committee of the World Cultural Center in the Chippewa Valley. The interested schools or teachers may contact us. The program has been catalogued and categorized in four (4)boxes , which you can reserve for 2 weeks at a time. Pick-up only, we do not deliver.....Fascinating display of a very far away land, and its many Countries.
VISIT OUR FEATURE COUNTRY OF THE MONTH
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