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• Annual Leonids Meteor Shower This Week

  
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• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Three-Disc Edition + Digital Copy + DVD) [Blu-ray]

  
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  Binding: Blu-ray Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Three-Disc Edition + Digital Copy + DVD) [Blu-ray] Ben Stiller wrestles with extinct beasts, historical figures, and meddling monkeys in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the sequel to the popular 2006 ...
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• Ice Cream Recipes From 1907

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 128
  In a previous post , we featured candy recipes from the 1907 Ice Cream and Candy Makers’ Factory Guide .  As you can tell from the title, the guide also has an ice cream section. The ice cream section begins with recipes for Neapolitan style and Philadelphia style ice cream. Neapolitan style ice cream is made ...
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• Washington DC displays history of holiday Season

  
  INNOVATION. International Journal by 2thinknow. — Authority: 111
  WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opens “Holidays on Display” Nov. 13. The exhibition examines the art, industry and history of the commercial holiday displays that enchanted the public from the 1920s to the 1960s. A theme throughout ...
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• Holiday displays of old brighten Smithsonian exhibition

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 968
  In most places, the big department stores have left downtown. With them have gone the showcase window displays decorated with elves, snowflakes and the obligatory figure skater gliding along on a mirror, not to mention the families lining up to see these holiday tableaux.
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• Weekend Events: Celebrate American Indian Heritage, Astronaut Art, and Sesame Street’s 40th Birthday!

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 131
  Portrait of an American Indian (ca. 1900). Artist unknown. Image courtesy of the American Art Museum. Friday, November 13: Vice Adm. Donald D. Engen Flight Jacket Night: A Conversation with Alan Bean On November 19th, 1969,  Alan Bean became the fourth man to set foot on the Moon during the second lunar landing ...
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• Night at the Museum monkeys around

  
  L.A. Story — Authority: 122
  Yes, Im a sucker for a monkey, especially one that responds to "gimme five!" This week, I had the opportunity to meet Crystal the monkey, one of the stars of "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian," on the Fox Studios lot in Century City. She and her trainer, Anthony Suffredini , joined the films ...
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• NYTS on the NMAI’s Horse Culture Exhibit

  
  Turtle Talk — Authority: 140
  From the NYTs : When Christopher Columbus first came to America, there were no natives on horseback to greet him. That is not only because he landed on an island in the Bahamas. It’s also because there were no horses in the New World. They originated here 40 million years ago and spread to other parts of the ...
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• Decorating for the Holidays

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 604
  ‘Ribbon Cutting’ courtesy of ‘tbridge’ The holidays are a time of excess, from decorations and food to parades and retail displays. We splurge on gifts, we make rich feasts for friends and family; we gather close to the people we love, seeking comfort in midwinter. The Smithsonian invited Santa & ...
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• The Key to the Forbidden City

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 128
  Believe it or not, clocks played a very important role for the foreign missionaries in opening the door to China in the 16th and 17th centuries. Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci , after settling in Macau in 1582, learned classical Chinese and adapted Chinese customs. He made a few attempts to have a ...
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• (Limited Editions × Low Prices) + The Internet = Art For Everyone

  
  Lost In A Supermarket — Authority: 140
  Affordable art…what a concept. I love it. Couldn’t be easier either, each week 20×200 puts up two new pieces of art, typically one photo and one work on paper. The 20×200 handle comes from the $20 price tag of buying an edition of 200. For those with a little bit more to drop, they’ve created a few different ...
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• Construction Underway: Arts and Industries Building Gets a Little Love

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 131
  Work is underway at the Arts and Industries Building, closed to the public since 2004. Photograph by Brendan McCabe I remember well the first day I came to work at Smithsonian magazine 24 years ago. The offices then were located in the Arts and Industries Building, or the A&I, our affectionate acronym for that ...
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• Roy DeCarava, 1919–2009

  
  Eye Level — Authority: 412
  Roy DeCaravas Lingerie, New York Roy DeCarava, an American master, died October 27, 2009, a few weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday. Born in Harlem in 1919, and coming to adulthood during the Harlem Renaissance, DeCarava became a photographer of the street and the people who inhabited that day-to-day world. He ...
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• Yinka Shonibare, An Artist Turned Professor

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 131
  London-born, Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibares work is on view at the African Art Museum. Photo by Charlotte Player The past is prologue. And in the hands of the 47-year-old Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, history makes for rich fodder in the iconography of his sumptuous sculptural tableaux, curious films, richly ...
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• Sylph—A Fairy Inhabiting the Air; Airy, Graceful—Webster

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 128
  In this 1892 catalog from the Libraries trade literature collection , located in the National Museum of American History Library , Sylph Cycles, a product of the Rouse-Duryea Cycle Co., promotes their three bicycle models (Model A, B, or C). Each model came with standard spring frames and a choice of either the ...
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• Smithsonian’s Johnson Imax Theater Offers Free Admission to “Wild Ocean 3D” for Recycled Cell Phones

  
  Big Movie Zone Blog — Authority: 141
  The Johnson Imax Theater at the National Museum of Natural History has joined Nokia in an environmental initiative that provides free movie admission to visitors in exchange for their old mobile phones. From Nov. 15 through Nov. 22, guests who present a cell phone for recycling at the theater’s box offices will ...
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• Local Architect Hired to co-design Smithsonian Building

  
  30Threads.com: Highlighting the Triangle Online — Authority: 137
  What an extremely amazing compliment to one’s career! To be chosen to design a building connected to the Smithsonian.
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• Night At The Museum Battle Of The Smithsonian

  
  Elise's Ramblings — Authority: 124
  I had lots of fun yesterday at Fox Studio, for the release of the DVD Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian. As you can see I had my picture taken with the monkey from the movie. It comes out Dec. 1, 09. They really have added a lot of cool special features. The FoxPop thing is really cool, Im not sure if I ...
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• National Mall, a Finalist for a Google Trike Visit

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 131
  The National Mall is on a short list of places that may be photographed by the Google Trike. Photo courtesy of flickr user yufujamar. At the end of last month, the ATM blog initiated a campaign to have the Google Trike come to the National Mall. Google had invited the public to nominate trails, university ...
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• Remembering Veterans

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 128
  In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both ...
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