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• LOC 11/10/2009: Memes And Blog Welfare Queens

  
  Left Of Center Podcasts — Authority: 136
  Didja Know Glenn Beck as a hypocrite? I mean, besides the fact that he’s a talk show host. I have story about a guy that took on Glenn Beck, and won. I bet Beck doesn’t bring it up. We will. Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs (The Blogosphere’s First Welfare Queen) has a thing about Islam, that much is pretty ...
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• Catching Up With Danilo Pérez

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 428
  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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• Blu-ray New Releases for 11-10-2009

  
  Format War Central — Authority: 500
  The following are the Blu-ray new releases for Tuesday, November 10th, 2009. Ballast Kino International Retail: $34.95 Amazon: $21.49 Cars Gift Set Disney/pixar Retail: $49.99 Amazon: $31.49 Discovery Atlas: Complete Collection Discovery Channel Retail: $49.98 Amazon: $33.99 ...
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• Hollywood Hunks Battle for Peoples Choice Award

  
  The Insider Featured News — Authority: 633
  Five of the hottest guys in Hollywood are up for Favorite Movie Actor at this years Peoples Choice Awards. See all the nominations here: This morning at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, Kris Allen , Cat Deeley , Johnny Galecki , Jeff Probst and Sofia Vergara announced the nominations. For the first time, viewers ...
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• Walmart, Target and Amazon Slash DVD Prices

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 751
  If you are the type of person who likes to get their Christmas shopping done early, Ive got some good news for you, because now is your chance to buy some seriously cheap DVDs. Variety is reporting that the online stores for Walmart, Target, and Amazon, have gotten into a DVD pricing war and passing those savings on ...
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• Film From the Frontlines: New Glimpses of a War

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Men put leis on the graves of Pearl Harbor victims at the Naval Air Station in Kaneohe, Hawaii, in “WWII in HD” on History.
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• On loan from the Smithsonian

  
  Powerhouse Museum Object of the Week — Authority: 116
  Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski, © Powerhouse Museum, all rights reserved. Curators at the Powerhouse not only research information about the artefacts in our own collection, from time to time we assist external colleagues with their object research as well. Satellite propulsion engineer Alan Lawrie , author of ...
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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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• Smithsonian [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION] [PRINT]

  
  Art Journals — Authority: 144
  This magazine chronicles the arts, environment, sciences and popular culture of the times. It is edited for modern, well-rounded individuals with diverse, general interests. Each subscription includes a membership to the Smithsonian Institution which provides special discounts at Smithsonian gift shops, world travel ...
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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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• 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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• The Pharmacy

  
  Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog — Authority: 466
  The Pharmacy prescribes the following links to combat Monday online anemia. Blog: My Parents Were Awesome New inspired crowd-sourcing blog, ‘ My Parents Were Awesome ‘, collects evidence that, “before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grandparents) were once ...
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• Connecting with Affiliates

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 127
  Oronce Fine, Orontij Finei Delphinatis , 1542 The Dibner Library recently assisted Smithsonian Affiliate museum, the  Rubin Museum of Art , with selecting items for their upcoming exhibit, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe , which will run from December 11 2009 to May ...
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• Renwick Gallery

  
  Jason's View from DC — Authority: 421
  This is the Renwick Gallery which is right by the White House. Its one of the hidden treasures of Washington. Most people dont even notice it because they are heading to or from the White House. But this museum has some amazing exhibits to see. Its grand room is a wonderful place to sit and admire all the wonderful ...
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• Ruth’s Sunday Shakedown

  
  Female First Blog — Authority: 140
  There’s nothing like Beyonce in a corset and suspenders to get the MTV party started and that’s exactly what she did as she walked away with three gongs on Thursday night. Despite being linked to some of the world’s most beautiful women Gerard Butler claims that he always falls in love with the wrong girls. ...
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• Music: Bruce Hornsby’s Intersections [1985-2005]

  
  Talking with Tim — Authority: 418
  Bruce Hornsbys Intersections My appreciation of Bruce Hornsby ’s music dates back to his first RCA album with the Range, The Way It Is . I’ve not religiously followed him through the years–heck I only recently found out that he has a jazz trio, in addition to his work with his current band, the ...
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• Toadcast #94 – The Not-Notcraigcast

  
  Song, by Toad — Authority: 132
  I know I promised the Notcraigcast last week, but it didn’t happen I’m afraid.  After last week’s amazing Craigcast Neil and I were intending to introduce Craig to all sorts of modern music which we thought continued some of the traditions of the blues music he was describing to us, but circumstances have ...
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• Under the Sea

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 127
  Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur , 1899-1904, Anemone The Libraries may not be able to go along on a cruise to select specimens, but our collections can help identify them when they return to the Smithsonian. This nice article highlights phases of research in a recent ...
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• Black Indians at Smithsonian

  
  American Red Tory — Authority: 108
  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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• #9: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Single-Disc Edition)

  
  SuperSave Price.com — Authority: 164
  Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Single-Disc Edition) DVD ~ Amy Adams (2) Release Date: December 1, 2009 Buy new: $29.98 $10.00 (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Hot New Releases in Movies & TV list for authoritative information on this product’s current rank.) Go here to read the rest: ...
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