The Boston University gathers 30.000 undergraduate and graduate students from 140 countries. It is the 4th largest employer in the city with the same name. The academic life here is like a hive: with ten thousand faculty and staff, sixteen schools and colleges and 250 fields of study, the Boston University sustains high standards of education.

For those interested in finding out more they can make a tour of the university, and so they won’t leave empty-handed, there is also a gift shop there. Let’s see what you can find.

On the online option of the store you can purchase gifts for the home, gifts for the office, diploma frames and lithographs, mugs and glasses, leisure, personal gifts, watches and miscellaneous.

In the gifts for the home section you have the possibility of buying diverse types of clocks (alarm, weather station, Napoleon III mantle clock, Moonface Mantle clock, Presidential II, Monaco Gold) for the interior, men wallets, coaster set in black leather, bookends, desk lamps, pens (in different colors and shapes), set of candleholders, basically here are the typical items that pop into mind when you think of gifts inspired by the academic life.

Boston University Gift Shop (Source: a248.e.akamai.net)

In the gifts for the office area, you can expect at more or less the same thing as above, meaning pens, card holders, note pad desk set, pencil caddy, piano wood letter opener, mouse pad, briefcases, portfolios, clocks, paperweights.

At the diploma frames and lithographs area you can find just that – there’s no need to detail here. As well as in the mugs and glasses area, where, as expected you can choose between different types of mugs and glasses.

For the leisure, the Boston University gift shop gives you some suggestions: divot repair tool, magnifying glass, garment travel bag, computer – overnight bag, clocks (looks like time is precious as the Boston University emphasize it) and world globes.

For the personal gift section the BU has thought of lapel pins, money clips/card holders, tie bars, bookmarks, key rings, cufflinks, blazer buttons and that’s about it here.

Boston University Gift Shop (Source: a248.e.akamai.net)

In the watches section there’s no need for commentaries. And in the miscellaneous section things don’t differ that much of what we’ve just talked here: wallets, pendants, necklaces, bracelets, trinket box, sterling decanter, medallion barrel.

The Art Institute of Chicago is the place that hosts works of art from all over the world, emphasizing the diversity of traditions. This museum art was founded in 1879, both as an educational unit and a gallery. Among the collections here, you can enjoy the exposition from Africa, America, Asia, Europe (Decorative Arts), Indian art of the Americas, the periods Ancient and Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance, Contemporary and Modern, the fields Architecture, Design, Photography, the items like Arms, Armor, Prints and Drawings, Textiles.

Art Institute Gift Shop (Source: artinstituteshop.org)

After seeing this much history in one place, you have to assume that there is a place from where you can take some souvenirs with you: the gift shop. In the online shop, there are some categories of items like Apparel and Accessories, Books, Home Furnishings, Jewelry, Stationery, Wall Art and last but not least, the section with the Best Sellers. Let’s take them one at a time.

In the Apparel and Accessories department you can look through some clothing articles as scarves, ties, totes and umbrellas with all sorts of prints and inspiring patterns from the collections you have previously saw earlier.

The Books section is vast; here you have Art Institute of Chicago related books, Artist related books, the General area and you can also view the best sellers. Let me enumerate some titles from each class I’ve just mentioned: “Three Graces: Snapshots of 20th-Century Women”, “The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago”, “Edgar Miller and the Handmade Home: Chicago’s Forgotten Renaissance Man”, “Dogs”, “Cloud Collector’s Handbook”, Dream Destinations of Europe” and many others.

In the Home Furnishings department you can choose between clocks, collectibles, decorative glass, desk accessories, fountains, furniture, games, glass panels, holiday ornaments, lamps, mobiles, nightlights, religious items, sculpture, tabletop, throws, vases, wind chimes and, of course, the usual best sellers area. All these are beautiful items that allow you to take to your home a little bit of the world of art.

In the Jewelry section you have the possibility to buy bracelets, necklaces, pins, rings, sets, watches and there is a browsing list by stones used in the making of the jewelry: amber, pearl or semi-precious. These are unique pieces of jewelry that will allow you to wear in the day to day life a part of the unordinary and maybe the extraordinary.

The Stationery section contains boxed note cards, calendars and note cubes and the Wall Art department offers you at sail canvases, framed art work, matted prints, posters and wall décor.

Art Institute Gift Shop (Source: artinstituteshop.org)

If you will enter the Museum gift shop area, it is a certainty that you won’t get put empty handed.

Malaysia is an extraordinary country, unique and diverse. Its multi-ethnic, multi-religious society is one of the biggest producers of computer disks, palm oil, rubber and timbers. They are very keen on Internet as well. Maybe that is one of the reasons why there are lots of small businesses developing in Malaysia, one of which is the online gift shops. There are tens of them, all different in their way, trying to lure customers with great products and bargain prices.

Among the common things you can find in a Malaysian online gift shop we can include the chocolates. You can choose from a wide variety of gifts, from this lovely puppy chocolates and flowers to a royal fruit fan. The Malaysian online gifts are not extremely expensive, for example you can purchase a fruit basket for $72.95. Also, you can easily find a cute teddy bear and lots of bath foam; they will both probably cost about $90. You should also know that flowers are very popular in the Malaysian gift stores, especially roses and or any other kind of flower baskets. In most of the cases the flowers come with lots of sweets so they easily pay up the $100 that you have to spend in order to purchase a nice bouquet for a special occasion.

Anyway, there are some interesting things in every Malaysian online store. For example take this robotic dog bank; it is funny, it barks every time you put a dime in it and it is perfect for you daughter who has been saving for a new outfit and it costs only $50. This is definitely not the only unique gift that you could find in a Malaysian gift store. There are tons of funny items. Check out this Nanda Tocky watch perfect to make sure you don’t miss anything. It costs $169 but it can record your own voice, or your mother’s or girlfriend’s voice so that you might hear a familiar voice in the morning. That will most certainly brighten up your day.

The “smile with face cup with spoon” costs $17.90 and you can find them in lots of colors and tons of emotions, perfect for every day of the week. Also, think about how much your grandson or son would enjoy playing with this space rail. It has four levels, it costs $107 and I guarantee you that at the end of the day you wouldn’t resist the temptation of playing with it yourself. That is a great stress reliever. Also, every Malaysian online gift shopoffers you the possibility of personalizing almost everything. Key chains, t-shirts, crystal pianos, mugs, cut corners; you can find absolutely anything there.

So, go online in any Malaysian gift store and have your share of fun.

The acronym AMNH stands for the American Museum of Natural History. 25 buildings interconnecting make the museum on of the largest natural history museums in the world. You will find the AMNH on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the cosmopolitan New York.  Numbers are quite impressive when it comes to this museum in particular. Start with more than 32 million specimens from only which a small fraction is organized into 46 permanent exhibitions. Over 200 persons form a highly prepared scientific staff. Every year the museum manages to sponsor around 100 field expeditions.

In 1869 the dream of Dr. Albert S. Bickmore was brought to life. After years of lobby the former student of Harvard zoologist, Dr. Louis Agassiz received the support needed to establish a natural history museum in New York City. The buildings that nowadays occupy the bigger part of Manhattan Square were added one by one to the original building by many talented architects.

The exhibition halls host an impressive number of specimens. Mammals from Asia and North America, a blue whale in the Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life, a war canoe original from the Pacific  Northwest, Star of India or a meteorite of 31 ton are some of the exponents of the floor. The anthropological collections are quite impressive as well. They come from Asia, Pacific, Africa, Mexico or Central America.

The former Hall of Human Biology and Evolution opened in 2007 on February 10 as the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Hall of Human Origins. It traces the Homo sapiens examining in the same time human creativity origins. The rocks are gathered in the Harry F. Guggenheim Hall of Minerals.

Specialists have put together amazing dioramas inside the museum. A diorama is a fake, human built habitat. The work done is so great that recreating nature by dioramas is now considered to be true art. Some of the most famous dioramas are found in the Hall of African Mammals as well as in Milstein Hall of Ocean Life. Connected to the museum there is the Hayden Planetarium named after the founder Charles Hayden. It is a piece from the Rose Center for Earth and Space.

After taking your natural history lessons the next stop should be at the gift shop. It would be a shame to waste the opportunity to take a piece from the museum with you. The gift and souvenirs section has many interesting items in the display. Dinosaurs and fossils can be found on vintage t-shirts, decks of cards, games or even on painting kits. In Earth and space the main attractions are books and robot kits. Meanwhile in Distinctively AMNH category the items are very diverse: meteorites, sculptures, paintings, books, etc.

The online natural museum gift shop is regularly updates and has the same prouducts as the “real” one. A click is worth a thousand miles. However, a visit at the AMNH may be worth much more.

Like we all know, “Security” is one of the greatest challenges that human kind are facing today. Theer are many organizations and institution that are fighting to achive security for their citizens and one of them is the subject for this article.

We are talking about the Homeland Security Foundation, which is “a nonprofit organization founded to educate, serve and protect the public” and its mission is “to help advance Homeland Security while preserving American’s civil liberties” (extracted from the Homeland Security Foundation statute). On the Foundation’s frontispiece it is wrote: “awarness is our ally and civic duty and accountability are just a few tools we use to accomplish our goals”.homeland security foundation statute

And like any other renowned organization, the Homeland Security Foundation developed its own gift shop. C. Forbes Inc. is managing the Homeland Security Foundation Gift Shop, which was created in 2003 to promote public understanding of the Department of Homeland Security Foundation. And the Homeland Security Foundation Online Gift Shop is doing that by making products bearing the Department’s seal available to its employees.homeland security foundation insignia

Like we’ve already mention, C. Forbes Inc. is managing the Homeland Security Foundation Online Gift Shop, which is offering online merchandise, the most appropriate opportunities for the customers to display their proude through a variety of items.homeland security foundation t-shirt

Homeland Security Foundation Online Gift Shop is offering you signature gifts and awards like the ones below:

* custom coins: With C. Forbes Inc. help, the Homeland Security Foundation Online Gift Shop features creative services to assist you in designing the unique artwork that you’ve dremead for. We assure you that a custom coin will provide you an unforgotten keepsake gift;
* medallions: Please call at (804) 784-7300 to discuss about your medallion design idea;
* jewelry: Navy Woven Lanyard with American Flag, Great Seal Cuff Links, The Great Seal Lapel Pin, Eagle Brooch silver or gold plated, The Great Seal Cufflinks;

* awards and gifts: Silver or Gold Coaster, Custom Coaster Holder Set (gold or silver), Cherrywood Flag Box, Movado Rotating Desk Clock, Flag Shadow Box, Certificate Plaque, Walnut Medallion, Desk Nameplate, Book Box;
* books: These United States By Jake Rajs and Walter Cronkite, The American Eagle By Tom Leeson and Pat Leeson, America: A History in Art By William G. Scheller, Washington Storm By Richard Latoff;
* presentation items: Acrylic Coin Stand, Acrylic Coin Stand with Plate, Presentation Box (Medallion with Insert);
* packaging: Bi fold Coin Box with Gold/Silver Great Seal, Two piece Blue Brooch Gift Box, Two piece Blue Cufflink Gift Box, Two piece Blue Lapel Pin Gift Box;
* custom framing: White House Shadowbox Gold/Silver, Washington DC Shadowbox Gold/Silver, U.S. Capitol Shadowbox.

In the end we must say that Homeland Security Foundation was featured recently on General Norman Schwarzkopf’s prize winning Business Review. And if you need more information about the Homeland Security Foundation Online Gift Shop, send an e-mail at cforbes@cforbesinc.com or call at (804) 784-7300.

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