 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Modwena M. Huss
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Modwena M. Huss 99, of 834 Stoneridge Place, formerly of 2098
Avalon Road, died Tuesday, March 31, 2009, at home.
Private family services will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Nativity
Catholic Church, with the Rev. Dwayne Thoman officiating. Burial
will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery. The Hoffmann-Schneider Funeral
Home, 1640 Main St., is in charge of arrangements.
She was born on Jan. 9, 1910, in Dubuque, daughter of Leo and
Cecelia (Lillie) Dolan. She graduated from the former St. Vincent
Academy, Dubuque, in 1928.
She married Clarence "Pete" Huss on Aug. 26, 1933, at St.
Columbkille's Catholic ...
 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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THE EARL WHO LOST (AND FOUND) HIS MARBLES ; Greek artistry: A horses head from the Parthenon Priceless: A statue sold by Elgin to the British Museum Odd couple: The Elgins, portrayed by Nigel Havers and Clare Byam Shaw Ravages of time: But tourists also vandalised statues -.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...was also apersonal vindication. Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, has gone down in history as the man who stolethe Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon overlooking...sniggered at in smart society, Elgin had been further humiliatedby...
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Casts & connoisseurs: the early reception of the Elgin Marbles: this month is the 200th anniversary of the Elgin Marbles going on public view in London. The response they received was at first mixed, yet, for reasons that Marc Fehlmann explains, by the 1830s they had become integral to western art history and students everywhere were copying casts of them.
Magazine article from: Apollo
; When Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (Fig...praise and such controversy as the Elgin Marbles; no other artefacts have for...influenced by the ideas of his architect Thomas Harrison--(10) Lord Elgin used...
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It's time to send back the Elgin marbles
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; LOOK up Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine in Chambers...accurately a parliamentary one) "and the Elgin marbles were purchased for the nation...gives, very succinctly, the case for Elgin. His judgment was challenged at the...
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FAQ Elgin marbles A Greek tragedy
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...The old Greek statues that Mr Elgin rescued from Turkish barbarians...them back without a thank you for Elgin's selfless act of art preservation...would like you to think that Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and British ambassador to Constantinople...
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Elgin Marbles Earl's furniture sells for 566,000 pounds
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; ...descendants of the man who brought the Elgin Marbles to Britain has been...the family estate of the 11th Earl of Elgin, Andrew Bruce, in Charlestown, Fife. His great-grandfather, Lord Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl, who brought the Greek...
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Feud over `Elgin marbles' flares anew: Clinton remark prompts angry debate between London, Athens over statues.(World)(Greece)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...the 2 1/2-millennia-old "Elgin marbles." The campaign to recover...purchased during wars and conquests. Thomas Bruce, the 7th earl of Elgin (1766-1841), noticed what...throne, as agreeing that the Elgin marbles should be returned...
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Elgin Marbles plan to aid museums
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...SCOTTISH museums could benefit from a plan to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece, it has been claimed. The Scottish...since hundreds of the sculptures were acquired by Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, between 1801 and 1810.
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A diplomatic deep frieze.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...world. Once we let go of the Elgin Marbles, what's to stop an...documentary, called simply The Elgin Marbles, told the story of how...transported them to England. Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, had an obsession with ancient...
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Majestic in exile
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...sculptures returned home, ending the wrong done by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, two centuries ago. I feel the sense of dislocation...Museum. Those that were once burdened by the name of Elgin have been in exile for just over 200 years - a brief...
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Stolen Parthenon Rock Returned to Greece
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; ...the British museum. the ancient sculptures were removed in 1806 by British ambassador to Constantinople, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. The estimated 253 pieces include the Parthenon frieze by Phidias, a caryatid and a column from the Erechtheum...
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