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The Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, sits on Lake Shore Drive next to Lake Michigan, part of a scenic complex called known as the Museum Campus which includes Soldier Field, the football stadium that is the home of the Chicago Bears, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and a fine view of the buildings of the Chicago Loop. The architecture of this building typifies the style initiated by the World Columbian Exposition of the 1890s. A walk in downtown Chicago will reveal an entire series of monumental buildings such as this one. There are so many that a Chicagoan finds them commonplace, and that it takes a visitor to elicit a comment about the history of the city. Even the football stadium has the signature classical Greek-style columns.The museum is organized into four major departments: Anthropology, Zoology, Botany, and GeologyGeology (from Greek γ&eta ge "the earth") and λογος logos "word", "reason")) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. Geolog.
Some prized exhibits at the Field Museum include:
- Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rexFor the rock group "Tyrannosaurus Rex", see T. Rex (band). Tyrannosaurus rex was a predatory dinosaur. This is probably the most famous and most fearsome predator of all times Cretaceous 85-65 million years ago), its name derived from Greek and Latin word fossil skeleton currently known.
- A comprehensive set of human cultural anthropology exhibits, including artifacts from ancient Egypt, the Pacific Northwest, and Tibet.
- A large and diverse taxidermyTaxidermy ( Greek for the arrangement of the skin is the art of mounting or reproducing animals for display or study. This is a practice generally done with vertebrates, but occasionally with other less-developed species. Especially over the last century, collection featuring many large animals, including two prized African elephants, and the infamous Lions of Tsavo featured in the 1996 movie " The Ghost and the DarknessThe Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 movie based on the book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo depicting attacks by man-eating lions on the builders of the Uganda Railway in Tsavo in 1898 and how the lions were killed by John Henry Patterson. Written by William Gol".
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