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• Students validate 1924 dinosaur findings of paleontologist

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Toronto, Dec 15 (IANS) Three paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover that the original researcher had identified it right as an ankylosaur, Dyoplosaurus, and a 1970s revision was wrong.University of Alberta (U-A) graduate students were studying a 76-million-year-old ...
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• Springfield, IL: Part V – The Abraham Lincoln Presidential (Library and) Museum

  
  Bull Runnings — Authority: 123
  On Sunday, Oct. 11 this year my family and I visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, IL (see overview of the trip here).  The ALPLM complex is located only a few blocks from our hotel, and comes under the purview of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.  Due to budget ...
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• Nancy Friese

  
  lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts — Authority: 561
  Nancy Friese is a painter and printmaker who studied at the Yale University School of Art, the graduate painting program at the University of California, Berkeley and the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She divides her time between Rhode Island and North Dakota and teaches at Rhode Island School of Design. Her landscape ...
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• Big Bling in Washington

  
  Travel Babel — Authority: 119
  Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to display two fabled blue diamonds If the US had a monarchy, the 45.52-carat Hope Diamond (top right ) would be part of the crown jewesl, but were a republic, so the priceless gemstone belongs to all of us. The 31.06-carat Wittelsbach-Graff ( below right ) Diamond will ...
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• Aussie scientists find coconut-carrying octopus (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects coconut shells for shelter — unusually sophisticated behavior that the researchers believe is the first evidence of tool use in an invertebrate animal.
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• Indiana Railway Museum - French Lick, Indiana

  
  Indiana Tourism — Authority:
  Indiana Railway Museum - French Lick, IndianaTaking the train ride from the present day into the past is just what the French Lick Scenic Railway offers you.  Journey back to the days then the most luxurious way to travel was the railroad.  Taking this 1 3/4 hour, 20 mile round trip gives you all the feelings of ...
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• Downtowns Grammy Museum grows up

  
  Pop & Hiss — Authority: 702
  The Grammy Museum faced a number of challenges when it opened to the public last December. Set in downtowns L.A. Live complex, the institution was up and running in advance of many of the developments restaurants, hotels and movie theaters. Foot traffic, at least from those not attending basketball or hockey games ...
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• Avondale gets one of the new charter schools; focus on interactive learning

  
  Get Schooled — Authority: 475
  Longtime Get Schooled readers remember Patti Ghezzi, the originator of this blog and a wonderful colleague of mine for many years. Patti is still working on education issues and has been involved with one of the seven charter school applicants approved this week by the state. Here is a release by Patti on the new ...
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• Santa Monica Opens Museum of Flying

  
  California Beaches Blog — Authority: 147
  Springtime signals the maiden flight of birds just learning to spread their wings. It also brings the birth of a new institution, The Museum of Flying, slated to open in the Spring  2010. What better place is there to launch a flying museum than next to Santa Monica Airport adjacent to the DC-3 Aircraft Monument and ...
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• Religious events for the holidays

  
  Daily Titan — Authority: 514
  By Katelin Paiz Daily Titan Staff Writer Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, 400 W. Commonwealth Ave. Fullerton, 92832 714-525-2500 Christmas Eve Children’s mass at 4:30 p.m. English mass at 6 p.m. Spanish mass at 7:30 p.m. Christmas music at 9 p.m. Bilingual mass at 10 p.m. Christmas Day English mass at ...
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• Where Does a Chipmunk Sleep? Answer at Bay Area Discovery Museum

  
  California Beaches Blog — Authority: 147
  “Animal Secrets” at Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito answers burning questions that adults and youth ponder and want to know the secrets to. Questions such as, “Where does a chipmunk sleep”…or…”What does an eagle feed its young?” will be answered when you visit the museum that allows all ages ...
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• France returns wall paintings sought by Egypt (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  AP – Fragments of an ancient wall painting that caused a feud between Egypt and the Louvre Museum are heading home. View post: (AP)"> (AP)">France returns wall paintings sought by Egypt (AP)
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• Famed blue diamonds to go on display at Smithsonian (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  AP – Two of the world’s most famed blue diamonds will be on display together starting in January. Read more: (AP)"> (AP)">Famed blue diamonds to go on display at Smithsonian (AP)
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• Advent Calendar – Flickr

  
  Intute blog — Authority: 130
  Image sharing website Flickr is the subject of today’s Advent Calendar post, with perspectives from Tim Machin and Larissa Douglass. Museums, galleries, heritage collections and Flickr by Tim Machin Staffordshire Hoard: Cheek piece, fittings and zoomorphic mount Flickr has been enthusiastically ...
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• Architecture: In Washington, a Different Kind of Bubble

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  A plan for the Hirshhorn calls for an inflatable structure that pokes through the buildings top and side, on the National Mall.
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• Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

  
  Museum 2.0 — Authority: 404
  Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. The end of a conference is often a time of great enthusiasm quickly followed by a gaping maw of inability to act on that enthusiasm back at work. For this reason, I spoke specifically about how to make dream projects possible at real ...
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• The Bearded Truth | The Art of Phoenix

  
  Downtown Phoenix Journal — Authority: 497
  A few weeks ago, via this column , I learned that Phoenix has an already rich but growing literary culture. Add that to the nation’s largest self-guided art walk , an ever-burgeoning music scene that this writer believes is far from “ovah,” a theatrical subculture that is anything but boring , and what do ...
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• The Rosetta Stone: The Times Responds

  
  Looting matters — Authority: 423
  Graham Stewart, a columnist for The Times (London) has responded to the publicity surrounding the Rosetta Stone ("The booty included the four bronze horses of St Marks, Venice", The Times December 12, 2009). Stewart confuses two separate issues: significant cultural objects that left their countries long before ...
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• Tour of Living Butterfly House FREE on Tuesdays

  
  Ask Miss A — Authority: 476
  This exhibit explores the processes and patterns of evolution, and provides visitorswith an exciting new kind of experience in the museum–a walk- through living Butterfly House at the National Museum of Natural History. Visitors can observe the many ways in which butterflies and other animals have evolved, adapted, ...
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• The Rosetta Stone and the Global Village

  
  Looting matters — Authority: 423
  I noticed a letter in todays Independent by Alan D. Foster in response to the Rosetta Stone debate (December 14, 2009): ... Taken to its logical conclusion, every significant cultural artefact from another country currently housed in the British Museum would have to be repatriated. But how dull, then, if our ...
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