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	Info and facts on 'Cabinet (disambiguation)' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cabinet (A cupboard-like repository or piece of furniture with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display) - a council of high-ranking members of government (The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)
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		Cabinet of curiosities (additional info and facts about Cabinet of curiosities) - early form of natural history (The systematic account of natural phenomena) museum (A depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value) s
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/cabinet_(disambiguation).htm (136 words)

	Cabinet (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arcade cabinet - a type of furniture which houses arcade games, usually equipped with a coin slot and complex, hardwired electronics.
		Cabinet (Milkshake) - a milkshake (in Rhode Island); the most common variety is a coffee cabinet.
		Cabinet of curiosities - early form of natural history museums
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cabinet_(disambiguation) (181 words)

	Cabinet of Curiosities - Project Summary
		The age of European discovery and exploration in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the emergence of the private gentleman's 'cabinet of curiosities' as a showcase for the exotica of the New World.
		The concept of the Cabinet of Curiosities was inspired by a number sources, including John Codd's invoice for Banks's many chests and Allen Kurzweil's novel A Case of Curiosities.
		The Cabinet of Curiosities is part of New Images, 'a year-long programme of events throughout 1997 to highlight the modern, evolving relationship between Britain and Australia', marking the fiftieth anniversary of the British Council in Australia.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /cabinet/cab_summary.htm (4339 words)

	MIDDLE STREET CABINET OF CURIOSITIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The main function of the cabinet was to provoke a sense of curiosity and wonder in the viewer; in many ways they represented a world-view that valued the 'wonder' in an artefact much more than the need to analyse and classify that artefact.
		The dismantling of Cabinets of Curiosities or their assimilation into curated museums was a result of the rise of scientific/logical thinking as the accepted way of describing the world.
		The Cabinets are designed to provide materials that we hope will engage children's curiosity and interest; they may be particularly useful to children disaffected with formal learning, providing a starting point from which to encourage involvement and the desire to learn.
	www.middlestreet.brighton-hove.sch.uk /cabinet/whatisa.htm (2151 words)

	Cabinet Magazine Online - Cabinet: Mission Statement
		Cabinet is an award-winning quarterly magazine of art and culture that confounds expectations of what is typically meant by the words "art," "culture," and sometimes even "magazine." Like the 17th-century cabinet of curiosities to which its name alludes, Cabinet is as interested in the margins of culture as its center.
		Cabinet was named "Best New Magazine" of 2000 by the American Library Association's Library Journal and "Best Art and Culture Magazine" for 2001 and 2003 by the New York Press.
		Cabinet magazine, the antidote for the suffocated intellectual, continually moves across and beyond all the categories, offering some of the best writing and thinking about culture to be found the world over.
	www.cabinetmagazine.org /information (1172 words)

	MetroActive Arts \| Cabinet of Curiosities
		The "curiosity cabinet" of former Santa Cruz lighthouse keeper Laura Hecox, who kept the Monterey Bay beacon burning for 33 years, is another oddball highlight.
		"Cabinet of Curiosities" is packed with the strange and wonderful: Bird's egg collections, the largest moth in the world and jars of pickled fish specimens once owned by Cannery Row's Doc Ricketts.
		Cabinet of Curiosities--Oddities and Wonders from Museums and Collections Around the Monterey Bay opens Sunday and is on view from 11am-4pm Tue.-Sun.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/10.03.96/art-9640.html (671 words)

	Word Bomb: The Cabinet of Curiosities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The plot is on the surface relatively straightforward: New York is suffering at the hands of a new serial killer, seemingly basing his style upon a Victorian era killer who was slaying people to steal parts of their spinal cords.
		All in all, The Cabinet of Curiosities succeeds on many levels: it shows what frustrates real academics about the bureaucracy of museums and other public establishments, while also showing a bit about why the many officials are so concerned about funding.
		The Cabinet of Curiosities is a good summer reading choice, and will have you fascinated and disturbed until the very end.
	www.needcoffee.com /html/lit/wordbombs/cocuriosities.htm (540 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
		THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES is the name given to what was a 19th century museum for the lower classes.
		THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES reveals much --- but by no means all --- about Pendergast's background, and he continues, even at the conclusion, to be one of the more interesting contemporary characters in adventure fiction.
		The ultimate marvel in THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, however, is that Preston and Child continue to seamlessly weave tales that are at once compelling, spellbinding and addicting.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0446530220.asp (550 words)

	NYPL, Cabinet of Curiosities
		A phenomenon of the Renaissance, cabinets of curiosities (also known as Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonder) proliferated throughout Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
		Encyclopedic in approach, the cabinets emphasized the exceptional, the rare, and the marvelous, attempting to encompass the results both of God's creation (nature) and of man's (art).
		Cabinet de Curiosités: Les cabinets de curiosités ou le voyage immobile (Francis Adoue)
	www.nypl.org /research/chss/events/curiosities.html (373 words)

	Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child: The Cabinet of Curiosities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		With The Cabinet of Curiosities Lincoln and Child finally managed to write a book which is as dark as Relic, something I didn't dare hope for, especially after reading The Ice Limit which I found very disappointing.
		But the chief attraction of The Cabinet of Curiosities is it being set around the American Museum of Natural History, the biggest museum of its kind in the world.
		The Cabinet of Curiosities is a nice mix between mystery, horror and science fiction and will certainly satisfy the fans of the author team.
	sites.inka.de /sites/darwin/books/pqr/cabinet_of_curiosities.html (540 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Collector's Cabinet of Curiosities: a Virtual Exhibition
		The rage for collector's cabinets was fueled by an interest in classifying and understanding natural phenomena.
		Collecting natural history specimens began among doctors and pharmacists in the 16th century, and was taken up by European aristocrats.
		18th and 19th Century "cabinets of curiosities" formed the basis for many of today's natural history museums, and the natural history prints of the era are still appreciated not only for their scientific value but their aesthetic beauty.
	www.georgeglazer.com /collecting/cabinet.html (486 words)

	Mark Dion: Cabinet of Curiosities
		The exhibition Mark Dion: Cabinet of Curiosities--Dion's first project in the Twin Cities and the upper Midwest--is on display from February 24 through May 27, 2001 as part of the University's Sesquicentennial celebration.
		In preparing for Cabinet of Curiosities, Dion has been in residence at the Weisman since the fall of 2000, collaborating with museum staff, University of Minnesota collection curators, and students.
		Each cabinet is organized according to a theme, based on Renaissance ideas about how the world was structured: The Underworld; The Sea; The Air; The Terrestrial Realm; Humankind; The Library or Archive; The Allegory of Vision; The Allegory of Sound and Time; and The Allegory of History.
	www.weisman.umn.edu /exhibits/Dion/info.html (557 words)

	Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child - The Cabinet of Curiosities
		The construction site is the former home of one of the 19th century "cabinets of curiosities." These collections combined the oddities of science with a freak show-type atmosphere which attracted large audiences.
		The investigation leads to the identification of a reclusive scientist who rented rooms at this particular cabinet of curiosity.
		Preston and Child have created their own gruesome and entertaining cabinet of curiosity to which seasoned readers will certainly flock.
	thebookhaven.homestead.com /Z_Cabinet_of_Curiosities.html (388 words)

	The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child - read excerpt
		Curiosity struggled with a vague sense of alarm.
		In nineteenth-century New York, the public flocked to collections of strange and grotesque oddities called "cabinets of curiosities." Now, in lower Manhattan, a modern apartment tower is slated to rise on the site of one of the old cabinets.
		But just as Nora and Pendergast begin to unravel the clues to the century-old killings, a fresh spree of murder and surgical mutilation erupts around them...and New York City is awash in terror.
	mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/cabinetcuriosity.htm (1560 words)

	'Cabinet of Curiosities' shows off U, private collections - 02/27/2001
		More than 700 items collected from 51 areas of the University as well as from personal collections are on display in the "Mark Dion: Cabinet of Curiosities" exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum.
		His rare, gay pulp novels from the 1940s to the 1960s are featured in the Cabinet of the Library or Archive.
		The "cabinet of curiosities" idea originated in the 15th century European Renaissance and continued into the 17th century.
	www.mndaily.com /daily/2001/02/27/news/new2 (599 words)

	Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, The Cabinet of Curiosities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Such is the case with Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's mystery thriller, The Cabinet of Curiosities.
		It turns out that the former structure happened to be the site of an old "cabinet of curiosity." Before museums, educated men of science would often display their "discoveries" (both legitimate and faked) from around the world.
		Child created their website, which has excerpts from The Cabinet of Curiosities if you are interested enough to check it out before you purchase it.
	www.rambles.net /preston_cabinet02.html (694 words)

	The Infinite Matrix \| Richard Kadrey \| A Cabinet of Curiosities
		Traditionally, objects in a "Wunderkammer," or "curiosity cabinet" relate to each other in intuitive ways rather than following any strict principles of scientific philosophy.
		Since it cannot be seen in the visible spectrum, a fl hole might be an ironic object with which to introduce the cabinet, but we consider this galactic core central to the cabinet's concept.
		Pazyrykium is not only one of the deadliest and most radioactive substances ever discovered: at just over 90 billion years, it also has the longest half-life of any known matter.
	www.infinitematrix.net /stories/shortshorts/kadrey35.html (785 words)

	The Cabinet of Curiosities - DVD film: Totaltiorden.dk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, The Cabinet of Curiosities is so well written that I was torn between the urge to move forward with the plot and the desire to linger and understand the details!
		The Cabinet of Curiosities is a very explicitly told tale, rich in texture, mood, and historical fact, with bizarre characters, some of whom readily fit the bill as whodunit suspects.
		Authors Preston and Child are very skilled at their craft, conjuring up detailed imagery of the Cabinets, the dusty archives, the icy cold of the killer's laboratories.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/dvd_details.php/0446611239\|dvd (868 words)

	TASCHEN Books: Classics - All Titles - Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities - Facts
		Albertus Seba's "Cabinet of Curiosities" is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time.
		Though it was common for men of his profession to collect natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdam-based pharmacist Albertus Seba (1665-1736) had a passion that led him far beyond the call of duty.
		The introduction offers background information about the fascinating tradition of the cabinet of curiosities to which Seba's curiosities belonged and an additional annex, written by contemporary biologists, provides descriptions of the specimens.
	www.taschen.com /pages/en/catalogue/books/classics/all/facts/01661.htm (513 words)

	www.myspace.com/cabinetofcuriosities
		CABINET OF CURIOSITIES,,,, If you close your eyes to the truth, and open them to the lies, you have o one to blame for those tears, so wipe them from your eyes.
		He bases most of his pieces around the concept of a "Cabinet of Curiosities".
		He has collaborated with Rob Williams, the head of the fine art department at the uni I did my degreee at, who also uses the cabinet, along with ecentrica, detritus and found objects.
	www.myspace.com /cabinetofcuriosities (887 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Cabinet of Curiosities: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This time, the historical shenanigans center on a serial killer who operated 130 years ago out of a "Cabinet of Curiosities," a scientific sideshow of sorts that was the 19th-century precursor to natural history...
		Unfortunately, why I found The Cabinet of Curiosities to not be up to their usual standard.
		The Cabinet of Curiosities throws the three characters together to solve a series of grisly murders that occurred over 100 years ago and seem to be occurring again in the present day.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0446611239 (1288 words)

	FictionAddiction.NET - Bookworm's Book Review: The Cabinet of Curiosities
		Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child accomplished this handily in The Cabinet of Curiosities.
		Fortunately, The Cabinet of Curiosities is populated with a cast of characters that come to life who not only act in a believable fashion, but speak with distinct, unique voices.
		The Cabinet of Curiosities is a finely crafted, gripping novel of suspense.
	reviews.fictionaddiction.net /cabinet.html (520 words)

	" What is a Cabinet of Curiosities ? " (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		the cabinet of curiosities roman and egyptian antiquities
		The 'Cabinet of Curiosities' was originally a personal collection of things of wonder.
		The main function of the cabinet was to provoke a sense of curiosity and wonder in the
	www.thecabinetofcuriosities.net (519 words)

	David Pescovitz: Articles: Britannica.com: Wunderkammern
		This is Beasley's Wunderkammer, his cabinet of wonder, where unusual artifacts, natural and man-made, are displayed with no obvious rhyme or reason, no easily discernible method behind the curatorial madness.
		Classic cabinet-keeper Sir Walter Cope, a member of the Elizabethan College of Antiquaries, boasted an "appartment stuffed with queer foreign objects in every corner," according to a visitor's diary quoted in the Origins of Museums, edited by the curators of the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, which evolved out of the collection.
		Cope's cabinet featured pottery and porcelain from China, a Madonna sculpted from feathers, monkey teeth formed into a chain, and a horn from a woman's forehead.
	pesco.net /britannica_wunderkammern.html (882 words)

	MEview - The Cabinet of Curiosities
		Nora, Smithback, and Pendergast are no strangers to Preston and Child’s legion of fans and The Cabinet of Curiosities” is the perfect setting to bring them all together.
		Maybe it’s the touch of “otherworld” or the relentless pace, but the authors manage to turn a hefty novel into a breakneck read.
		Or, maybe it’s the strange attraction/repulsion of these cabinets that draws the reader in so very deep.
	meviews.hikeeba.com /review.php3?id=0446611239 (495 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Cabinet of Curiosities: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		'THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES' is one book in a series from the writing team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child that seems to have a pretty big cult following.
		Well it was, until the end, which really disappointed me. I was completely engrossed in the first two thirds of this book; however, I found some aspects of the final chapters of the book to be a little too implausible and other aspects to be a little too easy.
		I was not disappointed, as I learned quite a bit about the earliest natural history museums...the "Cabinets of Curiosities" that existed in the late 1800's and were the pre-cursors of serious museums that exist today.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0446611239 (858 words)

	cabinet of curiosities
		The Cabinet of Curiosities is a unique and amazing entertainment.
		For receptions and after dinner close-up entertainment The Black Hart brings along his ‘Cabinet of Psychic Curiosities’, a small antique cabinet full of weird psychic magical effects and experiments.
		Set up in a room on it’s own or in a corner of the main room, your guests really will be intrigued by the psychic ‘happenings’ they are invited to take part in.
	www.blackhart.co.uk /page5.html (130 words)

	A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection
		A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection draws on the tradition of the Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities precursor to the modern museum.
		These artworks blur the distinction between aesthetic and scientific display, while also focusing on the nature of collecting and collections.
	www.wattis.org /publications/curiosities (99 words)

	Cabinet Of Curiosities
		The Cabinet of Curiosities showcases some of the weird and wonderful trophies brought home by Angus’ 19th century intrepid travellers.
		Visitors will be treated to rare views at close quarters of just some of the fascinating objects held in the Angus Council Museums Collection.
		A crocodile, Samurai armour, fierce weaponry from the South Sea Islands, insect cabinets, Indian models showing various casts are just some of the more exotic items displayed alongside some local favourites such as the famous Forfar Pike’s head and the Montrose Basin Flamingo.
	www.angus.gov.uk /new/releases-archive/2002/2002-08-23b.html (144 words)

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