?Rebecca Bugge, All Rights Reserved Do not use without permission. Askos from Canosa, dated to about 270-200 B.C. #Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities The Greek and Roman collection, including Etruscan artifacts, is one of the most extensive in the world, with more than 100 000 objects, presented in several galleries. The objects date from the Greek Bronze Age (about 3200 B.C.) to the age of Emperor Constantine in the 4th century A.D. Some of the highlights include the Parthenon gallery and finds from the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos. #The British museum was founded in 1753, much due to the will of Sir Hans Sloane, who in his lifetime had made an extensive collection of curiosities - as was a habit of the 18th century if you were a well-educated man. This first part of the museum consisted of some 71 000 objects - being everything from natural specimens, prints by Albrecht Durer and objects from long lost civilisations. At first the museum was situated at Montague House, but it soon became too crowded there with a whole series of further donations, including the Rosetta Stone and other artifacts from ancient times. In the 19th century the museum was much expanded to house all these objects and to be able to show them to the public. In 1895 the museum bought the 69 houses surrounding the museum, demolished them and expanded the museum. The natural history collection does not live in the museum now, and the books and manuscript are now held by the British Library - the main focus of the museum now being on cultural history, historical and more modern. It has now a collection of several million objects, covering 54,600 m2 and separated into 94 galleries.

Photo 43/365 - 12 February 2010. When we first moved into our place last year, we were pleased to know there was a dishwasher as part of the sale. The first night after moving in I threw a heap of dishes, cups and cutlery in and set it to run. Then about half an hour later all the power went out in the back part of the house. Turns out that dishwasher has an issue that would trip the safety switch in the fusebox. Thanks previous owners for hiding that little fact. Grrr! So about 9 months on I have been talked into replacing it. The timing was good and all the stars were in alignment. It was hard rubbish day earlier in the week, Asko was having a sale and my friend was on his last week as store manager at the place I was buying from. Delivery is today and took me about 30 minutes to hook everything up and it is ready to rock and roll! Now back to working from home today.