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unusual facts about Artis


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Some choose to donate mobile phone through organisations such as Masterpeace and Artis Zoo.


Art for art's sake

A Latin version of this phrase, "Ars gratia artis", is used as a motto by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and appears in the circle around the roaring head of Leo the Lion in its motion picture logo.

Emil Für

He has exhibited his work at the International Festival of Visual Arts in Acre in Israel; in Saloniki in Greece; at the Budapest Gallery and the "DEPO" Jewish Museum in Budapest,and the exhibition "The Machagodzilla Rabbit rides the Rocket Horse-Bela Lugosi and Houdini's Breakfast" in the Spiro Ark, London, as well as at the Association of Hungarian Painters and Israelis Artis.

Gerard Prent

Looking for study material in the Amsterdam Zoo (Artis), the sparrow forged itself upon him, as a free and everyday subject.

Latvian declension

2nd declension two-syllable male names never undergo consonant shift (Uldis, Artis, Gatis, and so forth.) Besides body parts (acs, auss) there is a number of other words that historically do not undergo consonant shift, e.g., the name of the town of Cēsis.

Marcel Weyland

He was awarded in 2005 the Order of Merit by the Polish government for his contributions to Polish culture, in 2008 the Medal of the Order of Australia, in 2012 (by the President of Poland) the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit to the Polish Commonwealth and 1n 2013 the gold medal Gloria Artis by the Polish Minister of Culture.

NASA ERAST Program

A small Airborne Real-Time Imaging System (ARTIS) camera, developed by HyperSpectral Sciences, Inc., under ERAST project, was flight demonstrated during the summer of 1999 on board the Scaled Composites Proteus aircraft when it took visual and near-infrared photos from Proteus while it was flying high over the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture 99 Airshow at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Royal Armouries Ms. I.33

It is first mentioned by Henricus a Gunterrodt in his De veriis principiis artis dimicatoriae of 1579, where he reports it to have been acquired (looted) by a friend of his, one Johannes Herbart of Würzburg when serving in the force of Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach in the campaigns of 1552/3.

Solyndra

Major investors included George Kaiser Family Foundation, U.S. Venture Partners, CMEA Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Virgin Green Fund, Madrone Capital Partners, RockPort Capital Partners, Argonaut Private Equity, Masdar and Artis Capital Management.

Southern Crowned Pigeon

This species was first discovered new to science by Otto Finsch who found a live bird received from the dealer C. Scheepmaker in Amsterdam Zoo and named it after him.


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