In the beginning, Sites also sent the Smithsonian's objects overseas, and arranged to bring foreign treasures here: museumgoers may regard "The Treasures of Tutankhamen," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the late 1970's, as the first modern museum blockbuster, but as Ms. Cohn likes to point out, "Sites circulated many of the objects that were in the King Tut show years earlier".
One of the earliest forms of parade were "triumphs" – grand and sensational displays of foreign treasures and spoils, given by triumphant Roman generals to celebrate their victories.
"OH, this?" I say as a visitor inspects some of my foreign-found treasures, "I picked this up in Sri Lanka.
Indeed, the structure of Indonesian written and oral sources suggests that the origins of kingdoms on the coasts of the Java Sea were associated with the success of local heroes in turning the arrival of foreign trading treasure to their advantage.
The new one's a great introduction, and with three more on the way, it can only mean that images of new peril, Nazis, swarthy foreign-types, treasure and Marion Ravenwood should soon surround our hero.
A youthful Indy with whip in mid-swing - a montage of peril, Nazis, swarthy foreign-types, treasure and Marion Ravenwood in the background - it's everything Indy contained in one sheet of paper.
The Royal Academy has strong historical links with the museum; in 1935 it was the first foreign gallery to show treasures from the Forbidden City, something that the Chinese had not forgotten.
Meanwhile, Scott reveals Armand's personal history in flashbacks, constructing a portrait of a man who, beneath his cultured and savvy facade, was ambitious, deceptive, enthralled by adventure and enraptured by the treasures of foreign lands, perhaps to his detriment.
The Swedish press has aired emotional concerns about letting a national treasure fall into foreign hands—even though foreigners already have 60% of Skandia's shares.
The president-elect was chosen to stop wasting blood and treasure on foreign wars and start fixing what's broken at home.
The poem then goes on to catalogue the riches that only travel can bring: harbors we have never seen before; fabulous treasure from foreign ports, amber and ebony and coral, exotic perfumes; and encounters with wise strangers.
