The Anthropology Museum of the People of New York ARMENIAN CULTURAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER GALLERY SPRING 2019 XLII NO.1

The Anthropology Museum of the People of New York and The Armenian Cultural Educational Resource Center Gallery at Queens College

Kissena Hall I Mezzanine • 64-19 Kissena Boulevard • Flushing, New York 11367-1597718-428-5650 • fax 718-428-5610 • voice-mail 718-997-2838 • anthroarmen@aol.com

Since the Anthropology/Armenian Museum is functioning in such small quarters, there is no space to expand to include comprehensive histories of other ethnic groups, which was the mission of the organization, supported by

noted Anthropologist Margaret Mead, back in 1977.

There are references to Africa through our fossil collection, origins of pertinent languag-es, and dolls from over 125 nations, but our mission is to display exhibits representing the history and diversity of the

people of NYC.We have contacted NYC

Councilmen, wealthy doners and would even like to be part of the AMAZON educational complex slated for Long Island City. “All We need is a Little Help From Our Friends”. Do you know anybody?

Museum Looks For New Home To Represent Diversity

The Anthropology/Ar-menian Museum each year, on his birthday,

honors the memory and music of genius Armenian/Greek American pianist-composer Mark Kyrkostas. Pianist, Ivy Adrian interprets Kyrkostas’ style of playing, as if his spirit is coming alive through her playing. The program will also feature singer Michelle Mallar-di, lead actress in the original Broadway production of

Beauty and they Beast. Cosmo Mallardi, Mark’s Jazz Quintet bass player will accompany the performers. Dancer Ani O’Hanlon will perform their famous “Hall Dance” and co-median Nick Whitmer returns by popular demand. Preced-ing the program a full buffet dinner will be served. All this for $30 per person (2 for & $50). WOW! Seating is limited. Please reserve early by calling 718-428-5650.

Kyrkostas Concert Celebrates With Music, Dance, Comedy & Dinner

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Founding MembersMargaret MeadMargaret C. Tellalian-KyrkostasHenry JacobyRalph AnoushianTheodore Kyrkostas

Board of TrusteesChairmanMildred Munich

PresidentZarmine Boghosian

Vice PresidentStanley Meltzer

TreasurerMeg Andreasian White

SecretaryLucine Tegnazian

MembersMorton Alpert, Esq. Mary FilouStephanie GoldsonGary Slobin Esq.Rubin Stepanian Esq.

Executive DirectorMargaret C. Tellalian-Kyrkostas

Advisory CouncilAram ArkunPat Buttero Robert H. DavidianLisa Franzraich Varoujan FroundjianRose HartunianMaro Jamgotchian Edward & Lynn Jamie Clifford J. JollyGeorge KevorkianTheo Kyrkostas Sydney LefkoeChris MaragakesGeorge MartakisWilliam NajarroRosemary Halberian NicholasLiam O’HanlonRaymond P. Tellalian Helen Wegner

Honorary TrusteesChairmanRichard E. LeakeyHon. Andrew Cuomo Diocesan Prelate, Archbishop Daniel Findikyan

Hon. Melinda R KatzRev. Fr. Abraham MalkhasyanFelix V. Matos RodriguezJack Soultanian Prelacy Prelate, Archbishop Anoushavan Tanelian

Hon. Peter Vallone, Jr.Hratch Zadoian

Legal CounselMorton AlpertSteve Wasserman

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WORLD EVENTS JANUARY 19, 49 BCEJulius Caesar crossed the

Rubicon River to invade Italy.He was assassinated in 44 BCE.

MARCH 14, 1925A law went into effect

prohibiting the teaching of EVOLUTION in Tennessee.

MARCH 17, 1917Czar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated his throne as the

Bolsheviks took over. On November 7, Lenin took

over from Alexander Kerensky.

OCTOBER 22, 1938The first Xerox copy was made.

APRIL 5, 1951 The Rosenbergs, Ethyl and Julius

were sentenced to death for stealing and revealing

atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.

MARCH 24, 1958 Singer Elvis Presley

was inducted into the Army.

FEBRUARY 11, 1979Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Seized power in Iran.

Fr. Abraham Malkhasyan, Pastor of The Armenian Church of the Holy Martyrs and NYC Councilman Barry Grodenchik with the support and approval of local Community Board # 11, at the intersection of Horace Harding Expressway service road and 210 Street, was co-named “Armenia Way”.

“Armenia Way” in Bayside, Queens

Students Need More Than Public School

Please take this opportunity to order as gifts, or for the education of your family members the items listed below. Your purchases will help the Anthropology/Armenian Museum continue with its mission to provide cross-cultural understanding of diverse ethnic groups.

1. Book: Armenia: Memories from My Home, by Margaret C. Tellalian-Kyrkostas. 85 colorful pages of the 1997-98 Ellis Island Armenian exhibit.

2. Poster: World Events Comparative Timeline, (9000 BCE-2000 CE) displayed at the Ellis Island 1997-98 Ellis Island Armenian exhibit. A two poster set, each 20" x 30", includes many Armenian historical events. $25 two poster set: free S & H.

3. Traveling Exhibit: Armenia: Memories from Our Home, (12’ wide x 6’ high) is available to be exhibited at churches, libraries and banks.

Visit the Museum. It is FREE and open to the public.

March 1-31: “Ladies From Your Past” exhibit, Port Washington Library

Mark this in your calendar Saturday, March 9, 7 PM. The “Mark Kyrkostas Remember Me With Music” concert

April 4-30, 2019: “Ladies From Your Past”, Glen Oaks Library

Greece is Back & So Are We The Museum needs your feedback for our planned Greece trip for 2019 Fall or January, 2020. Let us know if you would like to join us.

TBA: Visit to Theodore Roosevelt’s home, Oyster Bay

TBA: 2019: Visit to Steinway Piano, Astoria

TBA: More Locations of “Ladies From Your Past” exhibit

IRA Charitable Deduction Information: Remember donation to the Museum using funds from your IRA as a donation will reduce your adjusted income for tax purposes.

Call Museum office to arrange for class visits 718-428-5650

KEEP THESE DATES OPEN:

Book and Poster For Sale $15 each: free s & h

Everyone reading this should contact both their local elementary and high schools,

and ask them to contact the Anthropology/Armenian Museum to arrange for their students to visit the Museum.

Anthropology is the study of both the origin of our speciesgoing back millions of years and the study

of diverse cultural ways, going back 12,000 years.Origin of species includes both scientific and religious views.

Besides, it’s fun and students are allowed to touch the artifacts.

Contact 718-428-5650. Check our website www.anthropologyarmenianmuseumu.org. Museum is located at

64-19 Kissena Blvd., Kissena Hall, Flushing, New York, 11367. PARKING ARRANGEMENTS ARE AVAILABLE.

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◆ “The Voyage of Human Origins” exhibit covers multi-ethnic cultures and biological aspects of human origins. See how Greeks and Egyptians influence each other.

◆ The “Armenia: Memories From My Home” exhibit displays the history of the Armenians, from 9000-BCE to the present. Armenia, in 301 C.E., became the first Christian nation.

◆ The “Ladies From Your Past “ exhibit curated by The Anthropology Museum of the People of New York at Queens College & The Armenian Cultural Educational Resource Center Gallery will be featured during March, Women’s Month at the Port Washington Library. The exhibit, first displayed at Queens College Rosenthal Library, covers the contributions of over 200 famous women worldwide.

GET COLLEGE CREDIT Become A Volunteer Intern... Keep The Museum GoingThe Museum needs your input. Teach the next generation about the importance of cultural history.

College credit for Internships!

Educate with both the Brain and Eyes. Visit the FREE MUSEUM:The Anthropology Museum of the People of New York & the Armenian Cultural Educational Resource Center Museum @ Queens College, please call 718-428-5650 and make an appointment.

NYC Councilman Barry Grodenchik views the exhibit with Director Kyrkostas and his assistant Dev Awasthi.

The Armenian Exhibit at the MetThis is the first major exhibition to explore the remarkable artistic and cultural achieve-ments of the Armenian people in a global context over fourteen centuries—from the fourth century, when the Armenians con-verted to Christianity in their homeland at the base of Mount Ararat, to the seven-teenth century, when Armenian control of global trade routes first brought books printed in Armenian into the region.

traces left on ancient tools were very similar to the ones he recently created fire by rub-bing pyrite against his own biface. Neanderthals genes are all around us. Who are they? Look out for those with sloping foreheads. They might be your inlaws.

New Fossil Controversy RE: Australopithecus sedibaWith its fossils dated to 1.98 million years ago, Au. sediba is too young to be directly ancestral to all members of the genus Homo. But Lee Berger and his colleagues proposed in 2010, and again in 2013 in six papers in Science, that given the many humanlike traits in Au. sediba’s face, teeth, and body, the Malapa fossils were a better candidate than Lucy or other East African fossils to be ancestral to Homo erectus, a direct human ancestor that appeared 1.8 million years ago. Paleoanthropologist Bill Kimbel of Arizona State University in Tempe analyzed the most complete skull of Au. sediba and systematically shot down the features claimed to

link it to early Homo. Kimbel noted that the skull was that of a juvenile—a “7th grader”—whose face and skull were still developing. In his analysis, with paleoanthropologist Yoel Rak of Tel Aviv University in Israel, he concluded that the child already showed traits that linked it most closely to the South African australopithecine

Au. africanus, a species that lived in South Africa 3 million to 2.3 million years ago. And had it survived to adulthood, its humanlike facial traits would have changed to become

even more like those of Au. africanus. Is Lucy, (3.75 MYO) out?

Why Drink Milk?Milk is a top food source for calcium, potassium and vitamin dairy products and are also a good source of protein which helps rebuild and repair mus-cle according to Dr. Gregory Miller,PhD, FA, Chief Science Officer at National Dairy Council. Scientists at Trinity College in Dublin found that women who consumed yogurt daily decreased their osteo-porosis risk by 39 %, i.e. The more you eat the less likely you are to develop osteoporoses. Don’t like milk, eat cheese or drink low fat milk.

Alzheimers May First Start in the Body Outside the BrainAmyloid beta proteins, pro-duced in blood platelets, blood vessels and muscles, are being studied by Prof. Weihong Song, University of British Columbia, to study whether the affliction first starts outside the brain.

Caregiving Contact - The Caringkind Helpline is available 24-7, all year long for free advice at www.caringkindnyc.org, or call 646-744-2900

Khatchkar at the Met exhibit

Macedonia Is GreeceEver since the Republic of Macedonia declared its independence in 1991, Greece has been fight-ing the country over its name. Today the 27-year impasse ended as two nations finally came to a resolution: The former Yugoslav republic is getting a new name, the Republic of North Macedonia.

Japanese Babe Ruth Los Angeles’ Shohei Ohtani, the New Babe Ruth, became the first baseball player to hit 20 home runs and pitch 50 innings since the Babe.

Skating On The Moon?34 million miles away, the 51 mile Korolev ice crater on the moon would be a great place to go ice skating accord-ing to the Europe-an Space Agency, which launched the Mars Express in 2003 and took 6 months to get there.

Nuclear Collider in Switzerland The Huge 17 mile Hedron Collider in Meyrin, Switzerland will be closed for 2 years for an upgrade. The European Center for Nuclear Research installed the Collider in order to de-termine how new particles and forces of nature develop. The Collider measures the energy of particles produced when 2 particles travel close to the speed of light before they collide.

In the United States, the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) (also nicknamed the Deser-tron) was a particle accelerator complex under

construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas The project was canceled in 1993 due to budget problems.

Minoan Cemetery Excavation in PetrasAn international team of archaeologists headed by the director emerita of the ministry of culture Metaxia Tsipopoulou which is digging at Petras, on the eastern edges of the city of Siteia on Crete, has dis-covered a large number of gold and silver jewelery, nu-merous bronze implements (many used for grooming) and other objects.

Turks Fleeing Erdogan Fuel New Influx of Refugees to GreeceIn the dead of night, Yunuz Cagar and his wife Cansu gave their baby some herbal tea to help her sleep, donned backpacks and followed smugglers on a muddy path along the Evros river, evading fences and border guards until they reached Greece.

The Turkish Government’s Ill PursuitsGreece reflects and remembers the cat-

astrophic events of September 1922 (the burning of Smyrna by the Ottoman Government) and September 1955 (the Istanbul Pogram.

Happenings at a Glance

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Uranus Hit by a Rock Twice the Size of EarthThe Only planet to spin on it’s side, Uranus, was smashed into by a rock double the size of Earth, 3 billion years ago, according to Duke University space researcher Jacob Kegerris. Uranus is unique in that the planet tilts about 90 degrees on its side. Even their poles are lopsided at an angle. Researches are exploring the possibility that perhaps the “rock” was incorporated into the planet or it may still be roaming the solar system.

Getting Rid of Bad GenesSPR-Cas9 gene editing has become a genome editing tool that has enhanced scientific research, but has also caused much controversy and concern over its potential applications. With the potential of becoming a tool to fix incurable genetic diseases, the safety and effi-ciency of CRISPR needs to be extensively investigated to ensure that only the desired DNA modifications are made. Recent studies published in Nature have discovered how editing efficiency in cells can be influenced by the DNA dam-age response, and are raising concerns after finding that

CRISPR cuts can result in larg-er unwanted DNA rearrange-ments than previously thought.

HONG KONG, CHINA

On the eve of an international summit here on genome edit-ing, a Chinese researcher has shocked many by claiming to have altered the genomes of twin baby girls born this month in a way that will pass the mod-ification on to future genera-tions. The alteration is intended to make the children’s cells resis-tant to infection by HIV, says the scientist, He Jiankui of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. He was dismissed from his job and arrested by the Chinese government for doing research without permission.

Saturn’s Rings DisappearingSaturn’s Rings are made up of various forms of ice, formed less than 100 Millions years ago. The ice chunks are being pulled by gravity into the cen-ter. Meteoroid strikes and ultra-violet light from the sun is the culprit. This process will elim-inate the rings in 300 Million years according to James O’Donoghue, NASA’Goddard Space Flight Center.

Humans Have 1 -3 % Nanderthal Genes:

Good Or Bad? Scientists are still a long way from understanding what inheriting a Neanderthal gene means to people. Some Neanderthal genes may be helpful — improving our defenses against infections, for example — but other bits may leave carriers slightly more prone to other diseases. A team of scientists revealed that two pieces of Neanderthal DNA may have another effect: They may change the shape of our brains. The study, pub-lished in the journal Current Biology, wasn’t designed to determine how Neanderthal genes influence thought — if they do so at all. Instead, the value of the research lies in its unprecedented glimpse into the genetic changes influencing the evolution of the human brain. Other Neanderthal researchers, like Andrew Sorensen, a Dutch doctoral student, investigated whether Neanderthals were able to produce fire. Mineral

Anthropology AND Science

Neanderthal-left, Modern-Right