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Enemies of the Dinosaurs!

  • 18-10-2008 11:48pm
    #1
    Galvasean
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    Interesting article I found showing that dinosaurs have not always been popular. Also contains a pretty cool art gallery.

    http://www.paleontologynews.com/link.asp?ID=337705&Title=How%20the%20Democrats%20Tried%20to%20Destroy%20Dinosaur%20Art

    An excerpt:
    Work on the paleozoic museum caught the attention of William "Boss" Tweed, the notorious figurehead of the city's corrupt Democratic political machine, who denounced the project (there was no apparent graft that could be had from an institution built around collecting fossils). Hawkins, a Londoner raised to believe in the virtue of making public declarations at Hyde Park Corner, held a demonstration in support of the museum during which he openly denounced Tweed. That evening, Tweed's henchmen entered Hawkins's studio and destroyed the dinosaur sculptures. Some believe that they buried the shattered fragments in Central Park. To this day, the skeletal remains of Hawkins's American dinosaurs have never been recovered, their iron and brick bones undisturbed for more than a century and a half.


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