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Amber Home Page:

• Ambergris is found within Ambergris A Pathfinder and Annotated Bibliography by Randy D. Ralph.
• The Amber Discussion Group was created by Doug Lundberg
• Johnathan Bird's Sperm Whales: The Deep Divers of the Ocean
• All About Whales! from EnchantedLearning.com
• Amber Webpages Review in Science magazine. Leslie, M., 2005. NetWatch: Trapped forever. Science, 309, p. 857. View as a pdf, www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/309/5736/857d.pdf, or htm, www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/309/5736/857d.
• View the NSF/AAAS 2005 Visualization Challenge: co-winner in the photography category--www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5743/1991b, Science, 23 September 2005, 309(5743), p. 1991.
• http://www.educationindex.com/index.html, Education Index News is an annotated directory of education-related Web sites.
• http://www.evolutionary.org, has a section recognizing science-related Internet sites at http://sciencesiteoftheday.com, in which the World of Amber was recognized on June 14, 1997.
• http://www.newscientist.com/weblinks, The New Scientist provides reviews of everyday scientific phenomena and recognized the World of Amber in 23-25 January, 1998.
• http://www.schoolzone.co.uk, Schoolzone links to an educational search engine originating in the United Kingdom, which is easy to navigate and a wealth of resources for teachers.
• Farlang Gem and Diamond Foundation has amber references at www.farlang.com/gemstones/amber.
• ChangingLINKS.com

What's New:

• The Fifth International Baltic Jewellery Show Amber Trip was 6-9 March 2008 in Vilnius, Lithuania, www.ambertrip.com/en.
• Amberif! March 11-15, 2008, the International Fair of Amber, Jewellery, and Gemstones in Poland, amberif.mtgsa.pl/e4u.php/3,en,.
• Handmade amber jewelry by Peter and Caroline Wyspianski, www.signature-gems.com and their educational information, www.signature-gems.com/gemsinfo.html.
• Mr. Andrzej Gorski and his amber glossary, http://www.amberabg.com/b_systematyka/index.html, and informative website, Amber Stone Live, www.amberabg.com/.
• Farlang Gem and Diamond Foundation online library on historic references that mention amber, www.farlang.com/gemstones/amber.
• Andzia's Amber Jewelry and Beads, http://www.amberjewelry.com/.
• Richard Kulczynski's Cool Design, www.cooldesign.ch.
• 2004 and 2005 Amber Fair can be viewed at http://www.ambermart.pl/ambermart/pl/?1
• AMBERIF 2004 and 2005 can be found at http://www.amberif.pl/amberif/en/
• Jewelers' Circular Keystone online journal ran an article on an amber show in Lithuania, http://www.jckgroup.com/article/CA371280/jck?industry=Trade+Show+and+Association+News&industryid=2006, while the second annual show, AMBER TRIP 2005, is found at http://www.ambertrip.com/
• Gems and Gemology, http://www.gia.org/gemsandgemology/1423/18944/2072/issues_table_of_contents_article_detail.cfm reviewed amber journal articles.
• Aber, S. W. 2003. In Search for Kansas Amber. WWW URL: http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/outreach/ew.htm.
• Kansas Amber by B. Kosmowska-Ceranowicz and S. Aber is found at http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/JEWELLER/13PJ/11burszt.pdf, which is an article found within Polish Jeweller, http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/JEWELLER/index_jewel.htm
• Museum of Inclusions in Amber, http://www.muzeum.gda.pl
• Global Gem and Jewelry Trade Fairs are found on the Amber Market of Events, http://www.amber-market.com/page129.htm and wholesale amber jewelry, http://www.amber-market.com/.
• AMBERIF 2003, http://www.amberif.pl/amberif/en/.
• 2003 4th Annual Amber Fair, http://www.ambermart.pl.
• Chemical Analyses of Fossil and Modern Plant Resins Using C-13 SSNMR, http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/abstract_37772.htm.
• A Minute Fungus Beetle Larva (Coleoptera: Corylophidae) From Dominican Amber: A Striking Example of Morphological Convergence, http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/abstract_46386.htm .
• The Amber of Lebanon, http://almashriq.hiof.no/ddc/projects/amber/acra/amber.html .
• International Amber Association from Poland, http://www.sbp.org.pl/.
• R. V. Dietrich, 2002, on amber, http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/dietr1rv/amber.htm, from GEMROCKS: Ornamental & Curio Stones
• Art7, http://www.art7.com.pl/, and the Silver and Amber, http://www.art7.com.pl/world_of_jewellery.html.
• Stenex, http://www.stenex.com.pl/.
• Venus, http://www.venus.com.pl/.
• Amber Planet, http://www.amberplanet.home.pl/ramka_en.html (no longer online, 6/2004).
• New Insect Order Discovered - Mantophasmatodea, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1937150.stm.
• Amber Research Lab at Vassar, http://chemistry.vassar.edu/arl/index.html.
• Atlas of Plants and Animals in Baltic Amber or Atlas Der Pflanzen und Tiere im Baltischen Bernstein, Wolfgang Weitschat from the Geological Institute, University of Hamburg; http://natureum-niederelbe.de/html/bernstein.htm.
• Amber Research Provides Window to Ancient Past and Oregon State University Press.
• http://ambre.jaune.free.fr/index_deb.html, with reviews at http://ambre.jaune.free.fr/anglais.html (English), http://ambre.jaune.free.fr/italien.html (Italian), and http://ambre.jaune.free.fr/francais.html (French). Online translations are accomplished using http://babelfish.altavista.com.
• Bursztyn Amber is an excellent index of amber resources by Andrzej Kozlowski.
• Hobby Scope is an index with current information on amber exhibits to auctions.
• Amber: A Perfect Fossil Trap
• The 1998 World Congress on Amber Inclusions is no longer online (6/2004).
• The amber listserv is an external link within Doug Lundberg's home page.
• Amber News Group an archive of the above mentioned listserv, and the archive begins with May 1999, at http://www.ambericawest.com/listserv/archive.html.
• Garry Platt's site was created in 1997 and well worth return visits.

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What is Amber?

• Baltic amber by B. Kosmowska-Ceranowicz, K. Leciejewicz, K. Kwiatkowska, and A. Pieliñska, http://www.hermuz.hu/engweb/nws/amber2.htm.
• Andzia's Amber Reading Room, http://www.amberjewelry.com/Amber_Reading_Room_p1.htm, Amber Myths and History, http://www.amberjewelry.com/amber_myths_and_history_p1.htm are pages from Andzia's Amber, http://www.amberjewelry.com/.
• Amber quick facts from Dragonfly Amber.com.
• Amber: the Jurassic Gem is a page within the International Colored Gemstone Association's Gem Wire.
• Amber by Martin Rees.

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Kansas Amber

• Aber, S. W. 2003. In Search for Kansas Amber. WWW URL: http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/outreach/ew.htm.
• Polish Jeweller article on Kansas amber, http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/JEWELLER/13PJ/11burszt.pdf, by Barbara Kosmowska-Ceranowicz and Susan Ward Aber, appeared in the Polski Jubiler, the Polish Jeweller.
• Natural resources is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
• Fossil life is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
• Johnston Geology Museum is from Emporia State University.
• Sternberg Natural History Museum is from Fort Hays State University.
• Dyche Natural History Museum is from the University of Kansas.
• Physiographic province map of Kansas is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
• Petroglyph is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
• Aralia Wellingtoniana leaf impression is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
• Kansas County map is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
• Ellsworth Kansas was provided by Blue Skyways.
• Ellsworth County was provided by Blue Skyways.
• Smoky Hills counties is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
• Ellsworth Land Use is from the DASC at the Kansas Geological Survey.
• Kansas Geologic Map is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
• Geologic History of Kansas is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
• Cretaceous Sea is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
• Mushroom Rock State Park is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
• Ellsworth County Geology Map is from the Kansas Geological Survey.
• NW1/4, SW1/4, Sec. 18, T. 16 S., R. 6 W. is from the Topo Zone.
• Waggoner's paper, Bacteria and protists from Middle Cretaceous amber of Ellsworth County, Kansas, is from PaleoBios.
• The amber image is from the Kansas Geological Survey.

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Copal An Immature and Controversial Resin:

• The Amber Listserv, www.ambericawest.com/listserv/amber.html.
• The Kauri Museum, www.kauri-museum.com.
• Professor Brian Stross, uts.cc.utexas.edu/~strossb/index.html from the University of Texas on Mesoamerican Copal Resins, www.utexas.edu/courses/stross/papers/copal.htm.
• Colombian resin deposits, www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/amber/copal.html is a topic found at Tammi Johnson's Amber: Arboreal Gold www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Geology/webdogs/amber/.
• Types of amber, copal and resin, www.gplatt.demon.co.uk/typesof.htm is from Gary Platt's Amber Home, www.gplatt.demon.co.uk/index.htm.
• Copal, www.3dotstudio.com/amberfaq.html#anchor235952, is from Mark R. Meyer's 3 dot studio, www.3dotstudio.com.
• Real Amber or Fake?, www.ambericawest.com/real_amber.html is a part of Doug Lundberg's www.ambericawest.com/amber_info.html amber page.
• Ancient nucleic acids from amber-preserved insects, www.nhm.ac.uk/science/intro/palaeo/project1/index.html is from the London Natural History Museum.
• Amber Imitators, www.ambergallery.com/Is_it_real_amber_/is_it_real_amber_.html, is a topic found at the Amber Gallery www.ambergallery.com/.
• Copal, Young Resin, www.brost.se/.
• Copal Identification, www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/trueamber.html, is an article by Gary Platt and hosted by Bob's Rock Shop, www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/table.html.
• Insects in Amber from Colombia, South America, www.lava.net/FOSSILS/amber.htm is from the Paleo Warehouse, www.lava.net/FOSSILS/amber.htm.
• Colombian Amber, www.stonesbones.com/amb.htm is a site from Stones and Bones, www.stonesbones.com/index.htm.
• Yale Goldman, http://Snakefly.tripod.com/homepage.html, discusses copal http://Snakefly.tripod.com/amberpg.html and other amber imitations, such as glass, phenolic resin, celluloid, and casein, http://Snakefly.tripod.com/index-2.html, from his Dead Bug in Amber Club site.
• Nature's Transparent Tomb! Amber from the New World Tropics, http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0702.htm is from Wayne's Word http://waynesword.palomar.edu/inexwayn.htm, that is Wayne Armstrong at Palomar College, San Marcos, California.

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Physical Properties of Amber:

• Ken's Fluorescent Minerals is at http://www.users.interport.net/~kenx/
• Air bubbles, amber, and dinosaurs by Gary Landis, http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/na/0amber.htm, is a chapter in Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry, http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/na/aii-indx.htm
• Dinosaur breath by John G. Cramer, http://mist.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw27.html, is an article within Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, http://mist.npl.washington.edu/AV/av_index.html.
• Andzia's Amber Reading Room, http://www.amberjewelry.com/Amber_Reading_Room_p1.htm.
• Jewelry Central on amber, http://www.jewelrycentral.com/Target_Amber.html
• Mineral Galleries on amber, http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/Mineralo/amber/amber.htm
• Gemstone GO 340 Amber lecture, an online Gemstones and Gemology course http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/amber/go340/ offered from Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas USA.
• Ambre is found within the Musee de mineralogie, Ecole des mines de Paris
• Ambre is a page under All Minerals of the World
• Amber is from Athena Mineralogy University of Geneve, Switzerland
• R.V. Dietrich on amber, http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/dietr1rv/amber.htm is from GemRocks: Ornamental and Curio Stones, http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/dietr1rv/Default.htm.
• The gemology page, http://www.tradeshop.com/gems/index.shtml is an external link from Tradeshop Inc., http://www.tradeshop.com/index.shtml
• Amber Color, http://www.ambergallery.lt/english/muziejus-spalvos.htm, is from the Mizgiriai family, http://www.ambergallery.lt/english/apie_mus.htm, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.
• Amber Color, http://www.dragonflyamber.com/choosing_amber/ , is from Dragonfly Amber, http://www.dragonflyamber.com/.

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Geologic Occurrence of Amber:

• The timeline is from Mark Meyer's 3 Dot Studio page.

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Geographic Occurrence of Amber:

• Bacteria and protists from Middle Cretaceous amber of Ellsworth County, Kansas by Benjamin M.Waggoner, while at the Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, USA, and published in PaleoBios, Vol 17(1), p. 20-26, July 13, 1996.
• Central New Jersey is an external link found within Dinosauria On-Line by Jeff Poling.
• Online Scientific American sites originate from http://www.sciam.com/ and include Gladiators: A New Order of Insect; Ancient Tick Poses New Questions; and Ancient Ant in Amber.
• The Amber Room is from Steve Kurth's Fossils of New Jersey.
• Raritan amber is from the Geology of Bight Beaches, with the Raritan Formation and Raritan Bay pages also at these sites by Phil Stoffer and Paula Messina.
• Amber: A Perfect Fossil Trap is Dr. Volker Arnold's site, featuring German amber and it is also in German.
• In Your Pocket guide hosts Kaliningrad.
• Amber formation in Lithuania is from the Mizgiriai family, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.
• The Amber Room, is an excellent site detailing Dominican Republic Amber, including slides and video of microscopic views of amber and its inclusions.
• Terra Treasures and Adventures 101 is Keith Luzzi's site on amber from the Dominican Republic.
• A New Look at Dominican Amber by Leslie Miller Schwing, the Amber Lady.
• Geology Bulletin is found on the London Natural History Museum pages.
• Mexican Amber, by Cardell Calhoun, is found at http://www.mexican-amber.com/.
• Burmite, Burmese Cretaceous Amber, by Ron Buckley, is found at http://home.fuse.net/paleopark/amber3.htm.
• George O. Poinar, Jr. and Raif Milki is a link to a new book, Lebanese Amber The Oldest Insect Ecosystem in Fossilized Resin.
• The Kauri Museum is located in New Zealand.

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Life in Amber:

• Lizards, gnats, millipedes, termites, mites, wasps, scorpions, grasshoppers, oaks, and water are portions of an external link to The Natural History of Amber and the Three Dot Studio by Mark R. Meyer.
• The ant example is from Andrzej Gorski's Amber - Stone Live.
• The cockroach link is from Alfred Correya's Baltic Amber Collection from the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow.
• Beetles, flies, bees, and Amber Inclusions are from Wolfgang Wiggers, University of Bremen.
• The fossil feather in amber and Suspended in Time are both from the Smithsonian's Imprints of the Past.
• damselfly is found within The AmberLady.
• Butterfly is from the American Natural History Museum.
• mushrooms is a page from Doug Lundberg's Amber, A View of the Past
• Mammal bones preserved in amber, a CNN Sci-Tech story from 4/11/1996
• Landis is the author of this USGS publication.
• http://diglib1.amnh.org/novitates/i0003-0082-296-01-0001.pdf, A New Interpretation of the Oldest Fossil Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Michael S. Engel, American Museum Novitates 3296, 1-11. NY: American Museum of Natural History.
• A formicine in New Jersey Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptra:Formicidae) and early evolution of the ants by D. Grimaldi and D. Agosti was published by PNAS Online, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.
• Burmite, Burmese Cretaceous Amber, by Ron Buckley, is found at http://home.fuse.net/paleopark/amber3.htm.
• Amber - Stone Live is an interesting site by Andrzej Gorski.
• Fossils Window to the Past Amber, which is a part of Fossils Window to the Past, from University of California at Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology.
• www.150.si.edu/150trav/discover/fossil.htm, Suspended in Time
• The Amber Room by Steve Kurth.
• Dominican Republic Amber and New Jersey amber are both from Yale Goldman's Dead Bug in Amber Club.
• The Amber Room is an excellent site detailing Dominican Republic Amber, including slides and video of microscopic views of amber and its inclusions.
• Insects in Amber is by Jens von Holt and his Amber World.
• Dave Lamb's collection is found in Tammi Johnson's Amber: Arboreal Gold.
• Fossil Collections of the World by Simon Biggs.
• Scanning Electron Micrographs of insects by Dr. Greg Paulson.
• Fossil Inclusions in Baltic Amber was created by Gianfranco Rocchini. The site is in Italian, French, and English.
• Entrapped by Time is from the Mizgiriai family, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.

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Recovery of Amber:

• Amber Trade and the Environment in the Kaliningrad Oblast is hosted by the American University, Washington, DC, USA.
• Salt is an external link to a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in Poland.
• Bernsteinstrasse is a homepage of the Austrian Amber Road Association, a network of museums along the ancient amber trade route. Very nice!
• Amber Trade Routes is from the Mizgiriai family, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.

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Identification of Amber:

• Wieslaw Giertowski's Various Modifications of Amber from Doug Lundberg's Amber Page.
• Eugenio Ragazzi's make your own amber site is found within Lundberg's amber page.
• Jens von Holt created working with Baltic Amber as a part of his Amber World.
• The Amber Gallery has created a system for amber grading and pricing.
• Real or Not is from the Mizgiriai family, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.
• Is Your Amber Necklace Real? by Wayne Armstrong

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Uses of Amber:

• Buddist rosaries is an image in The Natural History of Amber found within 3 Dot Studio
• The amber ship was found at http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/ship.htm; the amber cabinet was found at http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/cabinet.htm; and the amber egg at http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/egg.htm.
• Amber skin care products http://www.amberjewelry.com/Bioenergetic_Amber_Skincare.htm is found within Andzia's Amber Jewelry and Beads, http://www.amberjewelry.com/.
• Red and green amber metaphysical tools is found within east-west center.
• Novgorod Province, Russia is the site of Bor Experimental and Industrial Chemical Forestry
• violins is found within Hans Johannsson's violin making home page.
• Amber Alter, St. Brygida Church is from http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/JEWELLER/12PJ/alt1.htm.
• Peter Bruhn's Amber Room, http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/~pbruhn/bszimmer.htm.
• Dragonfly Amber.com, http://www.dragonflyamber.com/about_our_amber/the_amber_room.html.
• Amber in Art, http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/amber/amberart.htm, a page from the California Academy of Sciences, http://www.calacademy.org.
• In Search of the Amber Room, http://www.ovationtv.com/artszone/programs/amber/fire.html, provided by Ovation, http://www.ovationtv.com/about/index.asp.
• Principality of Sealand, http://www.principality-of-sealand.org/hotstuff/kulturgueter_e.html, contains other links such as amber room excavation, http://www.principality-of-sealand.org/chronologie/grabungbz_e.html, and salvage operations, http://www.principality-of-sealand.org/hotstuff/dokusbernstein/etransgenehmigung.html.
• On the trail of the Amber Room, BBC News story from 8/1998 by D. Shukman.
• Underground race to find the Amber Room looted by Nazis, a news.telegraph.co.uk story from 10/2000 by J. Sparks and P. Sherwell.
• Wall panels are from http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/amberroom.htm, detailed panels from http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/amberroom1.htm, and the case is from http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/case.htm. At this same site, is a Polish history of the Amber Room, http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/HOBBY/AMBER/krzywoblocka.htm#a.
• Amber Use and archeological finds are both from the Mizgiriai family, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.
• Commercial amber jewelry links, http://www.amber-congress.com/result.php?Keywords=amber+jewelry&host=www.amber-congress.com&cat=1, from www.amber-congress.com
• Gintaro Galerija Muziejus, Virginija and Kazimieras Mizgiris
• Amber Goods, Piotr Przestrzelski and Malgorzata Przestrzelska
• Cool Design, Richard Kulczynski
• Amber Studio and Design Michal Blawat
• Amber World
• Højer's Amber Page, www.hoejersravsliberi.dk Andzia's Amber Jewelery and Beads
• Amber Way, Deimantias Viskas
• Bursztyn-Amber Stone Live by Andrzej Gorski
• AmberWorld, Jens von Holt
• Amber Jewelry, from Jens von Holt
• Drabik's Amber, Jewelry manufacturing
• Blue Amber
• Amber World Museum
• Dragonfly Amber
• The Amber Shop
• Silvart Amber Jewellery
• Nikole
• http://www.1amberarts.com 1AmberArts, Amber and silver jewelry manufacturer/exporter
• Frederic Burkha's Workshop, working and sculpting amber
• The Amber Lady
• Natural Creations
• Amber Depot
• Jayvo Designs
• The Russian Store
• Russian Liaison Collection
• Baltic Amber Jewelry, from Bernardine Art Jewelry
• Pol-Store Amber Jewelry
• Amber Jewelry and Baltic Amber, Alex Zilberg
• AmbericaWest, Doug Lundberg
• MirMex Amber, wholesaler
• Pracownia AB Amber Products, wholesaler
• http://www.stenex.com.pl/, Stenex, wholesale silver, amber and gold
• http://www.venus.com.pl/, Venus for wholesale beads, bracelets, rosaries and more.
• http://www.art7.com.pl, Art7 and the Aims and Concepts of the Project, http://www.art7.com.pl/world_of_jewellery.html, wholesale
• Kia International Amber Manufacturer, Wholesaler, Retailer
• http://www.amberwholesale.com/ Amber by Vessel, wholesale dealers only
• Thetis, manufacturer and wholesaler
• http://www.amber-market.com/, Amber Market, wholesale only
• Ambersto Silver and Amber Jewellery, Jozef, Mariusz, Marek Stopyra, Manufacturer and Wholesaler
• Talisman Jewelers & Metalsmiths, from Jewelers & Metalsmiths

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Myths about Amber:

• Jurassic Park is a search from Yahoo.
• The extraction of DNA and some scientists are portions of Nature's Preservative Organic Flypaper, a NISE project from the University of Wisconsin called the Whyfiles.
• Raul Cano is a portion of Ancient DNA and Microorganisms from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA; the Cano lab is also from California Polytechnic State University. Diversity of Microorganisms Isolated from Amber and Staphylococcus succinus sp. nov., isolated from Dominican amber are two online journal articles from Cano and colleagues.
• stingless bee is an external link to "Jurassic Park" Bacterium! which originates at Bugs in the News! Microbiology at the University of Kansas and John C. Brown.
• Replicate the procedure is a link that originates from the Department of Paleontology and Zoology at, The Natural History Museum in London.
• Mythological tales is from The Amberlady.
• Amber in Medicine is from the Mizgiriai family, Gintaro Galerija Muziejus.
• Baltic Amber Myths and History http://www.amberjewelry.com/amber_myths_and_history_p3.htm is a page within Andzia's Amber, http://www.amberjewelry.com/.
• Dragonfly Amber.com on folklore at http://www.dragonflyamber.com/about_our_amber/amber_legends.html.

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Care of Amber:

• Insects in Amber.com by Gary Lacey, www.insects-in-amber.com/index.html
• Lundberg has a page on how to work with raw amber.
• Dragonfly Amber.com on care for amber jewelry http://www.dragonflyamber.com/choosing_amber/caring_for_amber.html .
• Jens von Holt created working with Baltic Amber as a part of his Amber World.

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Museums with Amber:

• Palanga, Lithuania Amber Museum and their internal link, Antanas Tranyzas: The Amber Museum of Palanga.
• Palanga, Lithuania Amber Museum
• http://www.inyourpocket.com/, a guide to Baltic destinations
• Gintaro Galerija Muziejus
• Davainis' Amber Sculpture Museum
• Museums and historic sites along the European Amber Road
• Kaliningrad Amber Museum.
• Kaliningrad Region State Enterprise site and their links history of mining , modern use of amber, and religious use of amber
• Amber from Russian Classics
• Jewellers Guild of Russia
• Skagen Amber Museum
• Geologisk Museum Copenhagen, Denmark
• Crown jewels is from Guided Walks in Copenhagen Denmark
• Swedish Amber Museum Höllviken, Sweden
• Museum of the Earth
• Zamek Malbork, Malbork Castle, Malbork, Poland.
• The British Museum
• Natural Museum of Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
• Deutsches Bernsteinmuseum in Ribnitz-Damgarten is both a museum and an opportunity to learn how to polish amber in their model workshop!
• A travel site with museum information
• American Museum of Natural History
• Alfred Correya's Baltic Amber Collection from the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow
• Malbork Castle, Poland, and click on Amber Museum or Muzeum bursztynu.
• American Museum of Natural History is the host of several sites: Amber in Nature, Amber in Art, and Amber Varieties.
• Dinosaurs fabrication is found within the Museum of Unnatural Mystery.
• Dominican Republic Amber Museum.

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Disseminating and Communicating Information via WWW:

• Earth Science Department is a link to a page within Emporia State University.
• Emporia, Kansas.
• Amber Trade and the Environment in the Kaliningrad Oblast sponsored by the American University, Washington, DC, USA
• Amber Home is the creation of Garry Platt.

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References for Amber:

• Grimaldi, D.A. and Poinar, G.O., Jr. are within Amber: Arboreal Gold by Tammi Johnson.
• Nature's preservative is an external link within Whyfiles.
• Andrew Ross' Amber: The natural time capsule, the S. Caine review, mineralogy department's amber page, infrared spectroscopy, and amber book reviews are all a part of the London Natural History Museum.
• Forever Amber is a link to a Time magazine article summary, scanned by Doug Lundberg.

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