NewsShell Shows & Events
February the 27th and 28th, 2010
March the 6th and 7th, 2010
March the 6th and 7th, 2010
April the 17th and 18th, 2010
May the 22nd and 23rd, 2010
June the 6th, 2010
July the 10th and 11th, 2010
September, the 18th and 19th, 2010
October, the 16th and 17th, 2010
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Man passion for shells comes from the origin of mankind. They have been already used at the prehistoric era
to construct necklaces. Then the Mediterranean people used them in classical antiquity to make the Royal Purple dye,
manufactured from the mucus-secretion of the hypobranchial gland of a marine snail known as the
Murex brandaris.
Natural scientists began to collect and sort them by giving them names at the Renaissance.
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