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POPSAboriginal Rock Art at Risk But the peninsula is also seeing increasing industrial activity, including a gas processing plant, a fertiliser factory and iron ore port facilities, making it the only place in Australia to feature on the World Monuments Fund's list of the most endangered sites. Smalldon believes the rock art has suffered since mining took off in the Pilbara, which holds some of the richest mineral deposits on earth, in the 1960s. "We had nearly one million panels of rock art," Smalldon said.
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POPSLord's Prayer on the Head of a Pin x 7 I remember reading this in a Ripley's Believe It Or Not paperback years ago... I still find it amazing and to think of what fine control and ability the man had and he went blind from doing it! That is dedication!
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POPSAncient Egyptians did it tough The paintings and etchings on the tombs, and walls, were requested by the nobility, so their story was told, There were far many more average people, as there are today, who made up the bulk of the population, whose names are not recorded, but helped build the city, and tell the story of the country. The evidence is just harder to find.
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POPSEdgy Etchings Find Fortune (say it three times fast) When Fortune Magazine turned to Lara Tomlin to create two portraits in her edgy style for their annual European and Asian editions, they broke ground twice. Lara’s medium, etching, is an art and science seldom used in illustration, particularly portraiture. And according to the art director, Lara is the first woman ever tapped for this assignment.
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