But in recent months, the German tourists visiting Nepal is increasing.

Whilst the veneration of a living Kumari in Nepal is relatively recent, dating only from the 17th century, the tradition of Kumari-Puja, or virgin worship, has been around for much longer.

Many musical bands exist in Nepal, with a huge number in Kathmandu-most of the recent ones focused in pop and rock.

On June 6, 2006, then Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala went to India for a four day visit seeking support from India for Nepal ’ s recent political changes.

According to recent data, there are about 6 million users of Nepal Telecom including all those of fixed landline, GSM and CDMA mobile.

A recent study done by ICIMOD and UNEP ( UNEP, 2001 ) reported 27 potentially dangerous lakes in Nepal.

The recent Ethnographic Praxis in Industry ( EPIC ) conference is evidence of this.

One of the recent attractions is the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, a museum ship now moored at the former Naval Air Station as the USS Hornet Museum.

In recent years, many renovations and building additions have occurred to revitalize the downtown area, including repairing Modern Woodmen Park, the building of the Skybridge and the Figge Art Museum.

In Brown's novel, it is hinted that Jesus was merely a mortal man with strong ideals, and that the Grail was long buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, but that in recent decades its guardians had it relocated to a secret chamber embedded in the floor beneath the Inverted Pyramid near the Louvre Museum.

* 1978 The Bible and recent archaeology, London: British Museum Publications Ltd, 1978.

All these relatively recent archaeological discoveries are today exhibited in a side room of the small National Museum in Male ' along with other artifacts.

Gwyn Jones notes that " no true town has been found and excavated " and that the identification of the site in Elbląg with Truso is based on " finds of Norse weapons " and the presence of " a large Viking Age cemetery " nearby, According to Mateusz Bogucki " by now, there is no doubt that the settlement really is Wulfstan's Truso " The Elbląg Museum brochure: Truso-A Discovered Legend, by Marek F Jagodziński, describes a large number of buildings found during the recent excavations, with burnt remains of posts suggesting buildings of c. 5 x 10 m and long houses of about 6 x 21 m.

Touring Europe more comprehensively with his friends Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Henry-Russell Hitchcock to examine firsthand recent trends in architecture, the three assembled their discoveries as the landmark show " The International Style: Architecture Since 1922 " at the Museum of Modern Art, in 1932.

The Fiji Times reported on 3 July 2005 that recent research by the Fiji Museum and the University of the South Pacific ( USP ) has found that skeletons excavated at Bourewa, near Natadola in Sigatoka, at least 3000 years old, belonged to the first settlers of Fiji, with their origins in South China or Taiwan.

The most recent of these was Maharaja: the Splendour of India's Royal Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

In January 2008, Russia announced it would resume parading military vehicles through Red Square, although recent restoration of Iverski Gate complicated this, by closing one of existing passages along Historical Museum for the heavy vehicles.

The announcement took many on the campus by surprise, but Mr. Reinharz said the recent criticism over his financial stewardship and plans to close the university's Rose Art Museum was not a factor in his decision.

Until recent years, Indian artifacts were found frequently throughout Wenham, and a representative collection in the possession of the Wenham Museum.

These techniques were made physically possible by recent technological advances in the manufacture of both glass and cast iron, and financially possible by the dropping of a tax on glass. Sir Joseph Paxton ( 1803-65 ), Facsimile of the First Sketch for the Great Exhibition Building, About 1850, Pen and ink on blotting paper V & A Museum no.

In recent years Fairport Harbor has hosted the Lake County Perch Fest and opened the Finnish Heritage Museum.

Other attractions responsible for recent popularity and favorable attention to the Scranton area include the Snö Mountain ski resort ( formerly Montage Mountain ), the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins, AHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees ( formerly the Red Barons ), AAA affiliate of the New York Yankees, and their PNC Field, The Houdini Museum and the Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain concert venue.

* The major art museums include the Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte and the more recent Museum Ostwall.

In recent years, there have been proposals to open a Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in the capital city of Lithuania.

Additionally, Bridget Riley has had several international exhibitions in recent years ( e. g. Dia Center, New York, 2000 ; Tate Britain, London, 2003 ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2004 ).

As of December 2007, two more recent prototypes are on display at The Long Now Museum & Store at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco.

Species in this genus can be quite different, which has led to a recent recommendation in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History to split the genus, a recommendation that has been rejected ( in part ) by many taxonomists ( see Pauly et al., 2004, Evolution 58: 2517 – 2535 ; Pauly et al., 2009, Herpetologica 65: 115-128 ).

The studio's most recent completed projects include the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California, The Ascent at Roebling's Bridge in Covington, Kentucky, and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario.

The town's more recent history is preserved at the Sydney and Louisburg Railway Museum located in the restored railway station in the centre of town.

The Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest from July 18 to July 22, 2001 was one of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, as evidenced by the wounding of hundreds of policemen and civilians forced to lock themselves inside of their homes and the death of a young Genoese anarchist named Carlo Giuliani — who was shot in the face while trying to throw a fire extinguisher on a police car — during two days of violence and rioting by fringe groups supported by the nonchalance of more consistent and peaceful masses of protesters, and the hospitalisation of several of those peaceful demonstrators just mentioned.

On December 13, 2001, George W. Bush gave Russia notice of the United States ' withdrawal from the treaty, in accordance with the clause that required six months ' notice before terminating the pact — the first time in recent history that the United States has withdrawn from a major international arms treaty.

Steady growth in tourism receipts and a boom in construction of new hotels, resorts, and residences had led to solid GDP growth in recent years, but the slowdown in the US economy and the attacks of September 11, 2001 held back growth in these sectors in 2001-03.

However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

The award has drawn criticism in recent years because several players with experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) have won the award, such as Hideo Nomo in 1995, Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2000, and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.

Several enumerations have occurred since then, with the most recent two being carried out by Statistics South Africa in 1996 and 2001.

In recent years the armed force has downsized and with the peace accord with the FRUD in 2001, the armed forces are expected to continue its downsizing.

The Lake Eyre Yacht Club is a dedicated group of sailors who sail on the lake's floods, including recent trips in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009.

Mexico was not significantly influenced by the recent 2002 South American crisis, and maintained positive, although low, rates of growth after a brief period of stagnation in 2001.

According to the World Bank, Moldova's weighted average tariff rate in 2001 ( the most recent year for which World Bank data are available ) was 2. 8 percent.

Between 2001 and 2005, the Patriots became the second team in NFL history ( after the Dallas Cowboys ) to win three Super Bowls in four years ( Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII, and XXXIX ), and the eighth ( and most recent ) to win consecutive Super Bowls.

A recent United Nations report highlighted progress in poverty reduction from 2001 to 2007 — overall poverty fell from 37 % to 29 %, and extreme poverty fell from 19 % to 12 %.

The current account deficit from its recent peak at $ 1. 9 billion ( 8. 8 %) of GDP in 2001 shrank to $ 1. 4 billion ( 3. 4 %) of GDP in 2004.

Slovakia's tourism has been rising in recent years, income has doubled from 640 million USD in 2001 to 1. 2 billion USD in 2005.

The data in this article are based on the most recent Ukrainian Census, which was carried out in 2001, the CIA World Factbook, and the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine.

In addition, Milan's population seems to have stabilized in recent years, with signs of recovery as it grew by five percent since 2001.

Since 2001 the organization has hosted the senior staff and recent chair, Susan Solomon, of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on climate science.

In 2001, Deneuve starred in The Musketeer, her fourth and most recent Hollywood film to date.

Simon won 12 Grammy Awards ( one of them a Lifetime Achievement Award ) and five Grammy nominations, the most recent for his album You're the One in 2001.

The most recent addition is Harlow Carr, acquired by the merger of the Northern Horticultural Society with the RHS in 2001.

The most recent attempt to move Pavlova's remains to Russia came in 2001.

The club's recent rise to the Premier level, and eventually to the League, is attributed in part to the windfall of hundreds of thousands of pounds reaped by the sell-on clause in the December 2001 transfer of former Stanley star Brett Ormerod to Southampton, which paid Blackpool over a million pounds for his contract.

In recent years, SD has tried to approach the immigration policy of the Danish People's Party, which from 2001 to 2011 provided parliamentary support for the former Danish liberal / conservative government in return for a tightening of Danish immigration policies and stricter naturalization laws.

The most recent championships were held in Faro ( 2000 ), Monaco ( 2001 ), Grenoble ( 2002, 2004 and 2006 ), Geneva ( 2003 ), Brussels ( 2005 ), and Pattaya / Thailand ( 2007 ).

In the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals, the Avalanche defeated the New Jersey Devils 4 – 3 to win their second and most recent championship.