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• ‘Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian’ on DVD Today

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 552
  Its a new "Night" and "Museum" for Ben Stiller , who is joined by several other stars from the original film, as well as new characters from history. The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world’s largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in ...
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• Two Fish Die at the National Zoo

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 425
  Two of the National Zoos arapaima fish died recently. Photo by Jessie Cohen. Two adult arapaima fish died recently at the National Zoo . The first fish died on Thursday, Nov. 19, and the second fish was found dead Friday, Nov. 27. Zoo staff suspect a bacterial infection, and further tests including cultures and ...
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• Climategate to be followed by Evolutiongate?

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 124
  From divulged emails regarding ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’, ie, Climategate : “I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report,” Jones writes. “Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!” In another, Jones ...
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• Weekend Events: DC’s Latin Music Scene and American Food!

  
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  Learn about Latin food and music this weekend at the Smithsonian! 39c Mambo single. Image courtesy of the National Postal Museum. Saturday, November 28: Metro Mambo: Latin Music in D.C. The D.C.’s Latin jazz and dance music scene have long reflected Washington at its most diverse, involving such noted ...
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• American Indian Museum in Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade

  
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  NMAIs "Spirit of Thanksgiving" float debuted last year at the parade, sponsored by the Oneida Nation of New York. Photo courtesy of flickr user Ben+Sam. As you’re baking pies and basting the bird this Thanksgiving, make sure to tune into the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The National Museum of the American ...
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• Events for the Week of 11/23-27: Dig It!, Space Exploration, American Food, and the Freer’s Annual Attic Sale!

  
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  Venison AND turkey? What a decadent Thanksgiving THAT would be! Learn about quintessentially American foods at a 3-day festival presented by the American Indian Museum. Blue Fawn and Three Turkeys by Acee Blue Eagle. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives. Monday, November ...
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• From Beowulf to Libraries and beyond...

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 129
  The Libraries has been working with the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center s Kindergarten class this year on a variety of educational activities. A visit earlier this year was featured in Smithsonian online newsletter The Torch . Most recently, afternoon enrichment teacher Josh Beasley invited Elizabeth Periale ...
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• A Guy Named Joe

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 129
  Scrolling through the Libraries online exhibition, Scientific Identity , you will see a lot of famous Joes, including  Joseph Priestley ,  Joseph Ferdinand Keppler , and  Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande . Today were featuring Joseph Henry , the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The ...
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• Artist Jeanne-Claude Dies

  
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  Installation artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Photo courtesy of Wolfgang Volz/LAIF/Redux The artist Jeanne-Claude passed away last night at a New York hospital of a brain aneurysm, according to the Associated Press . She was 74. Jeanne-Claude, also known as Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, was born in ...
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• Search the Smithsonian’s Collections Online!

  
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  Detail of Robert Rauschenbergs Rabbit Chow (1977). Image courtesy of the American Art Museum. When you walk into any given Smithsonian museum, you are at the total mercy of the curators, who, due to space constraints, can only present a teensy smattering of all the cool stuff available at their disposal at any given ...
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• The National Portrait Gallery’s Newest Prize — Marilyn Horne

  
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  Artist John Footes depiction of a young Horne as Adalgisa in Bellini’s “Norma.” Photo courtesy of the NPG. Stroll through the main hall of the National Portrait Gallery this winter, and you are likely to see Shephard Fairey’s  already iconic “Hope” poster of President Barack Obama , followed by the ...
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• Events for the Week of 11/16-20: Free Movie Admission for Cell Phones, Stargazing, New Deal Artists and the Films of John Ford

  
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  A 1:5 scale model of the support systems module of the Hubble Space Telescope. Image courtesy of the Air and Space Museum. Monday, November 16: Free Admission to Wild Ocean 3D for Recycled Cell Phones Do the environment a favor and part with your old cell phone in an ecologically friendly way—and catch a movie ...
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• Weekend Events: Celebrate American Indian Heritage, Astronaut Art, and Sesame Street’s 40th Birthday!

  
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  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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• Construction Underway: Arts and Industries Building Gets a Little Love

  
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  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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• Yinka Shonibare, An Artist Turned Professor

  
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  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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• Smithsonian’s Johnson Imax Theater Offers Free Admission to “Wild Ocean 3D” for Recycled Cell Phones

  
  Big Movie Zone Blog — Authority: 140
  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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• National Mall, a Finalist for a Google Trike Visit

  
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  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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• Catching Up With Danilo Pérez

  
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  Jazz pianist Danilo Pérez / Image courtesy of Danilo Pérez Last month, celebrated contemporary jazz pianist and bandleader Danilo Pérez received a Legacy Award from the Smithsonian Latino Center. Not familiar with those? The awards are designed to recognize individuals of Latin heritage who have made “a ...
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• Celebrating 40 Years of Life On Sesame Street

  
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  Big Bird, featured on a postage stamp. Image courtesy of the Postal Museum. It’s almost impossible for me to imagine my childhood without public television— Sesame Street which turns 40 this week and is the kind of program that can still chase the clouds away. Of course when I was tuning in, the cult of Elmo ...
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• Black Indians at Smithsonian

  
  American Red Tory — Authority: 112
  Specifically, the National Museum of the American Indian .  Fascinating, maddening, enlightening, racist and anti-racist, historical and anti-historical discussion among the Comments, too! Here’s the exhibit’s website . Speaking as a controverted Nanticoke (who doesn’t qualify for Indian Assn. membership at ...
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