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Fire breaks out at Brazil’s National Museum in Rio
BNO News ^
| September 2, 2018
Posted on 09/02/2018 5:45:30 PM PDT by rdl6989
A massive fire has broken out at Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, engulfing the entire building, just months after the museum marked its 200th anniversary.
The incident began on early Sunday afternoon when a fire erupted in the three-story building. Footage broadcast on Brazilian TV showed that the fire had spread throughout all floors of the building.
It was not immediately known if anyone was injured, but the fire broke out when the museum was closed.
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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: brazil; brazilfire; brazilmuseum; fire; godsgravesglyphs; history; luzia; museum; riodejaneiro
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It looks like a total loss from the photos, a tragic loss of history.
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posted on
09/02/2018 5:45:30 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/02/2018 5:46:00 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
Further proof that Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be.
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posted on
09/02/2018 5:48:48 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: rdl6989
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posted on
09/02/2018 5:52:59 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: rdl6989
That is really sad. OTOH - it said Natural History. Around here we have really cool ones, and they are my favorite over the cultural museums that hold the artwork and stuff. But - I’d rather have my favorite museum of dinosaur bones and stuffed animals burn than the one with all of the artwork.
Hard to believe that they didn't have automatic sprinkler systems to stop this sort of thing.
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posted on
09/02/2018 5:54:03 PM PDT
by
21twelve
To: rdl6989; SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/02/2018 5:55:04 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Just looking at the photos on Twitter. ..it’s unbelievable..like a movie.
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posted on
09/02/2018 5:56:38 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Screaming Eagle mom)
To: SE Mom
It’s so large and out of control that I have to wonder if it wasn’t deliberately set.
Sarcophagus and mummy of Sha-amun-en-su. Third Intermediate Period, XXIII Dynasty, c. 750 BC.
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posted on
09/02/2018 5:57:54 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: CondorFlight
Bad wiring and no sprinklers prossibly.
Of course if it was torched, then it may have been to conceal a heist.
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posted on
09/02/2018 5:59:24 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: rdl6989
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posted on
09/02/2018 6:00:50 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: CondorFlight
I know..burning throughout in an even way. At least it appears that way.
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posted on
09/02/2018 6:01:51 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Screaming Eagle mom)
To: BenLurkin
Thanks for posting the photo, I don’t hold out much hope for anything surviving that.
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posted on
09/02/2018 6:01:53 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
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posted on
09/02/2018 6:02:05 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: rdl6989
Pitch for a detective novel:
A fireman sets the fire. All that stands between him and being a millionaire is to be assured, in one way or another, exactly what floor of priceless museum valuables he will be assigned to — whilst all electricity is turned off, and all other theft-protection barriers are in flames.
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posted on
09/02/2018 6:02:33 PM PDT
by
Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: 21twelve
My first thought was this is Brazil’s equivalent to the Smithsonian.
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posted on
09/02/2018 6:02:56 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
Luzia, the oldest human fossil found in Brazil. She lived in south-central Brazil some 12,000 years ago
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posted on
09/02/2018 6:03:28 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9
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posted on
09/02/2018 6:03:50 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin; rdl6989
Oh man - so this wasn’t just a “natural” history museum. That is really tragic that so many things from the old and foreign cultures are now gone. I’m always amazed to look at some of the really old stuff and see how good it was, and think of what it must have taken to design and make something so beautiful way back when.
The museum in Taiwan is REALLY mind blowing. The detail and beauty of stuff from 900 BC. and earlier.
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posted on
09/02/2018 6:04:03 PM PDT
by
21twelve
To: dfwgator
Further proof that we should NEVER return artifacts to 3rd world nations.
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posted on
09/02/2018 6:05:02 PM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(what a mess we got ourselves into)
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