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• Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian DVD Giveaway

  
  Here and There — Authority: 521
  THE BIGGEST ACTION-ADVENTURE FAMILY COMEDY IN HISTORY IS BACK “One of THE BEST FAMILY FILMS OF THE YEAR!”—Jeffrey Lyons, “NBC/REEL TALK” Over 400 Million Dollar Worldwide Box Office Sensation Arrives In A Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack And Limited Edition Monkey Mischief Double DVD Pack On December 1st LOS ...
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• The Wall Project: Berlin To Los Angeles

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 623
  aharvey2ks Flickr photostream/Creative Commons To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , The Wende Museum developed the Wall Project , in which eight sections of the Berlin Wall were relocated to Los Angeles, and an adjacent symbolic wall was built, painted by artists and torn down for the ...
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• This week in shoes

  
  ShoeBlog — Authority: 472
  Okay, so this one is from several weeks back: - Hundreds of shoes from Imelda Marco’s infamous collection were rescued from rising floodwaters by dedicated museum workers at the Marikina Shoe Museum. - In shoe-throwing news, a shoe is thrown at the former Australian Prime minister John Howard , while ...
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• Picture This: Playing Punball

  
  Eye Level — Authority: 459
  A museum visitor plays William T. Wileys Punball: Only One Earth. Youve seen the William T. Wiley exhibition. Now play the game! What, you havent seen the show yet? Well, nows your opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. On Thursday, November 12, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., visitors will have a rare opportunity ...
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• A Pearl of a Sculpture Garden

  
  Offbeat Guides Blog — Authority: 117
  Jeju Island is located south of the main Korean peninsula. It has a 6,400 foot shield volcano, a subtropical rainforest, several beautiful waterfalls and a distinctive culture that evolved separately from their mainland cousins. Parts of the island are designated World Heritage Sites. It’s also home to a bizarre ...
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• The Musuem of Innocence

  
  The Sly Oyster | culture, entertainment, liberal arts, shenanigans — Authority: 446
  Huh, well I’ll be damned.  “In 1999, writer Orhan Pamuk bought a three story building in Istanbul to interact as a museum with his new novel, “Museum of Innocence,” a first of its kind of this application.  He hired an architect, Ihsan Bilgin, before he started the novel to transform the building into a ...
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• Iron Artist in Tacoma 2009

  
  Olympia Dumpster Divers — Authority: 106
  Inspired by the original Japanese cooking show Iron Chef, Tacoma Art Museum’s Iron Artist Challenge invites artists to create competitive, improvised art out of recycled materials in 60 minutes.  This past summer, Team James Washington (Esther Ervin, Romson Bustillo, and Marita Dingus) took first place, and donated ...
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• Christianization in the Geneva area (in French)

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 448
  Title: Christianization in the Geneva area (in French) Location: Musée d’art et d’histoire , Rue Charles-Galland 2, Geneva (old town) Link out: Click here Description: Geneva’s archeologist, Jean Terrier, will hold a short talk on Christianization in the lake Geneva region. Entry free, no ...
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• Brainy sofa

  
  The Art of Science — Authority: 122
  From Wired : It’s either the ultimate in couch comfort or a totally bizarre idea dreamed up by a pair of designers obsessed with neuroscience. Either way, the “Brainwave Sofa” is clearly a one-of-a-kind piece of furniture. The couch’s lumpy, bumpy shape is a three-dimensional version of a brain scan, ...
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• DESTINATION OF THE MONTH– THE BIG CITY!

  
  Gypset — Authority:
  October and November are great months for gypsetters to stay put in western cultural capitals like New York, London, and Paris. The cities become giant cultural bazaars with creatives coming in from nearby lofts and studios and faraway enclaves in Trinidad or Mexico to exchange ideas and sell their wares. I recently ...
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• Celebrating 40 Years of Life On Sesame Street

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 428
  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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• Wisdom, Weaving, Songs and Legends at the Renton History Museum

  
  All About Renton — Authority: 118
  image courtesy of the Renton History Museum The Renton History Museum’s Fall Speaker Series continues tomorrow, November 10th at 5pm with Harvest Moon and Wisdom , Weaving, Songs and Legends. Come and listen as Harvest Moon transports herself to the Basket World with songs and stories from the Salish ...
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• Game Boy enters National Toy Hall of Fame

  
  The Game Guy — Authority: 126
  The Nintendo Game Boy, circa 1980s. Photo courtesy of Nintendo. In a move sure to make a lot of Generation Xers feel old, not to mention their boomer predecessors, Nintendo’s Game Boy has been inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame . The…
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• A Call to Remembrance

  
  A View from the Nest — Authority: 414
  Powered by ScribeFire . Related articles by Zemanta September 11 Memorial (bostonist.com) 9/11 Memorial Preview Site Opens Near WTC (curbed.com) Memorial. Period. (theworldison.blogspot.com)
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• Review: The Exquisite Glory of the Preening Male Peacock

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  The Maharaja of Patiala, wearing a diamond and platinum parade necklace created by Cartier in 1928.
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• Spoon Confirms Discovered Shipwreck of CSS Appomattox

  
  NC Cultural Resources Newsroom — Authority: 428
  KURE BEACH –The CSS Appomattox went down in flames in 1862 as her Confederate crew set her ablaze while fleeing Union forces.  A team of volunteer divers has located the Civil War shipwreck and its identity has been confirmed by the Underwater Archaeology Branch , N.C. Office of Archives and History in the ...
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• Events for the Week of 11/9-13: Africa Meets Mexico, Home School Open House, Confederate Currency and More!

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 428
  Commemorate Veterans day with a tour around the National Mall and the Smithsonian museums. Postage stamp, "Hometowns honor their returning veterans," courtesy of the National Postal Museum. Monday, November 9: Curator’s Talk with Cesáreo Moreno The Anacostia Museum is pleased to host the newly-opened ...
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• Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

  
  California Literary Review — Authority: 525
  The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times, victims of Turkish aggression during the First World War. "Who now remembers the Armenians?" Adolf Hitler exclaimed, as he and his Nazi lieutenants planned the Final Solution. The answer can be found lining the walls of the ...
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• Tricks, Treats and Ghosts

  
  Tenement Museum Blog — Authority: 466
  Children often come into the museum’s slightly spooky, dark hallway and ask in fear, “Are there ghosts at 97 Orchard Street?” We say, “No.” But this October 31, the Museum opened its doors for a special Family Halloween Celebration, and some unexpected specters were spotted in the halls. The day began ...
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• Furthering Fulbe Studies at the Libraries

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 127
  On my little knowledge I sit, To gauge the depth of my ignorance. Tierno Muhammadu Samba Mombeya, 18th century Fulbe scholar Neene Mariama Djelo Barry (1913-1975): woman from Futa Jalon, Guinea. Source: Kesso Barry. Kesso: princesse Peule. (Paris: Seghers, 1988) Fourteenth-century Arab travelers ...
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