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Collection of rare insects displayed at Australia's Queensland Museum

STORY: Collection of rare insects displayed at Australia's Queensland Museum DATELINE: July 31, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:48 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the insect collection in Queensland Museum 2. various of interviewees (courtesy of Queensland Museum Network) 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): KATHRYN EBERT, Queensland Museum Network entomologist 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): JIM THOMPSON, Queensland Museum Network CEO 5. various of the insect collection in Queensland Museum STORYLINE: Once in a decade, a precious collection of insects is on display at Australia's Queensland Museum from July 28 to April 14, 2024, in an exhibition called "The Butterfly Man of Kuranda: The Dodd Collection." Frederick Dodd, known as 'the Butterfly Man of Kuranda,' was an Australian naturalist who dedicated the later years of his life to entomology. Queensland Museum Network holds 42 beautifully arranged showcases made by Dodd and his family from 1917 through to the 1960s. The Dodd Collection is a si

Photo of Japan navy officer kept by Maltese businessman

Photo of Japan navy officer kept by Maltese businessman

VALLETTA, Malta - This picture of a Japanese naval officer is kept by Frank Borda, president of a trading house in Malta and resident near the nation's capital Valletta. Borda's grandfather, a ship chandler, had a business with the Japanese Navy fleet dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea in April 1917 during World War I.

Maltese businessman keeps documents sent by Japan Navy

Maltese businessman keeps documents sent by Japan Navy

VALLETTA, Malta - Photo shows Frank Borda, president of a trading house in Malta and resident near the nation's capital Valletta, in July 2014. Among the documents he has kept is one dated Aug. 17, 1917, sent to his grandfather by the Japanese Navy which procured supplies for a fleet dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea in April 1917 during World War I. Borda's great-grandfather and grandfather were ship chandlers.

Document by Japanese captain assigned to Mediterranean in 1917

Document by Japanese captain assigned to Mediterranean in 1917

VALLETTA, Malta - This document written by the captain of the flagship of the Japanese fleet dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea in April 1917 during World War I is kept by Frank Borda, president of a trading house in Malta. Dated Aug. 17, 1917, the document describing the purchase of foods and other goods and expressing satisfaction with the service was sent to Borda's grandfather.

Starbucks outlet in Japanese tangible cultural property

Starbucks outlet in Japanese tangible cultural property

Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd. shows the inside of a new outlet in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, to the press on April 20, 2015, ahead of its opening on April 22. The outlet was opened in the former residence of the commander of the Imperial Japanese Army's eighth division, a national tangible cultural property built in 1917, and it is the second Starbucks outlet opened in a cultural property in Japan after a branch in Kobe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Starbucks outlet in Japanese tangible cultural property

Starbucks outlet in Japanese tangible cultural property

Starbucks Coffee Japan Ltd.'s new outlet created in the former residence of the commander of the Imperial Japanese Army's eighth division, a national tangible cultural property built in 1917, is seen in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, on April 20, 2015, ahead of its opening on April 22. It is the second Starbucks outlet opened in a cultural property in Japan after a branch in Kobe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Maltese businessman keeps documents sent by Japan Navy

Maltese businessman keeps documents sent by Japan Navy

VALLETTA, Malta - Photo shows Frank Borda, president of a trading house in Malta and resident near the nation's capital Valletta, in July 2014. Among the documents he has kept is one dated Aug. 17, 1917, sent to his grandfather by the Japanese Navy which procured supplies for a fleet dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea in April 1917 during World War I. Borda's great-grandfather and grandfather were ship chandlers. (Kyodo)

Document by Japanese captain assigned to Mediterranean in 1917

Document by Japanese captain assigned to Mediterranean in 1917

VALLETTA, Malta - This document written by the captain of the flagship of the Japanese fleet dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea in April 1917 during World War I is kept by Frank Borda, president of a trading house in Malta. Dated Aug. 17, 1917, the document describing the purchase of foods and other goods and expressing satisfaction with the service was sent to Borda's grandfather. (Kyodo)