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Declaring Wright Brothers Not First Doesn't Really Fly
This was not the year for nonsense at the Capitol. Nevertheless, this session included a bill calling for a day to honor "the first powered flight" by Gustave Whitehead. The debate over whether the German immigrant was first to fly a powered aircraft is...Tags: Newington, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Kitty Hawk, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Rice's fossil pit remembered in Hampton lecture
— The first time Jane Rice ventured down into her in-laws' borrow pit off Harris Creek Road she was a recent bride who had little inkling about the extraordinary environment she was about to enter. Stepped terraces descended dozens of feet into...
Tags: Museums, Paleontology, Zoology, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Fossils
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Murder in a rural county: Part 2 of 2
The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va.Every night, before resting her head on a pillow, Billie Stewart calls on the Almighty for strength to endure another day. For more than a year now, she has found sleep an elusive respite from the nightmare that haunts her daily, the knowledge that...Tags: Aneurysm, Earl Ray Tomblin, Washington, DC, Murder, Substance Abuse
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Recognition for a reserved WWII vet
Like many World War II veterans, he speaks modestly about his service. He is quiet and a polite listener, not the kind to draw attention to himself. But a few months ago, as he visited the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, other veterans noticed...
Tags: Chinese Restaurants, U.S. Congress, U.S. Military, Armed Forces, Eric Shinseki
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Baum celebration to be held
A documentary on L. Frank Baum, who lived in Aberdeen and was the author of the book, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," will be shown and discussed at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Culture Heritage Center in Pierre. The event is being hosted as a celebration of...Tags: The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939)
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Questions and answers for Jamestown cannibalism case
Few archaeological finds have been as sensational as the first physical evidence of cannibalism unearthed at Historic Jamestowne in 2012 and announced in a riveting press conference at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History on...
Tags: Cannibalism, Museum of Natural History, Colonial Williamsburg, Historic Jamestowne, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia)
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Jamestown cannibalism expert has worked here before
Famed Smithsonian Institution forensic anthropologist Douglas Owsley, whose study of cannibalism and Native American scalping rituals made him indispensable to confirming the first physical evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown last week, has contributed...
Tags: Cannibalism, Hampton Roads, Historic Jamestowne, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight, Virginia)
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Smithsonian closing some spaces due to sequester
The Smithsonian Institution museums in Washington have had to close some spaces due to the effects of the federal budget cuts known as sequestration, the organization announced this week. The budget cuts have resulted in a reduction in a contract for...
Tags: Museums, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Washington Post, Arts, Government Debt
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Ellendale one of 12 ND towns hosting Smithsonian exhibit
A Smithsonian Institution exhibit that explains our country’s diverse regional cooking and eating traditions opens Saturday in the historic Opera House Lobby in Ellendale, N.D. “Key Ingredients: America by Food” runs through June 16....Tags: Lobbying, Salt
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Southwest Museum's prospects for festive 100th birthday are dim
Los Angeles’ oldest museum site, the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park, is celebrating its centennial this year with the debut of a new entrance halland outdoor nature center, capping a full makeover that’s already yielded new halls...
Tags: Museums, Ed Reyes, Renovation, Finance
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Obama's arts budget plan goes beyond restoring 'sequester' cuts
President Obama’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year would boost federal arts spending 10% above where it stands at the moment, lifting it to $1.58 billion for the 2013-14 budget year that begins Oct. 1 and more than compensating for cuts...Tags: Taxation, U.S. Congress, Arts, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Budgets and Budgeting
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Hopi masks auctioned in Paris amid outrage and legal objections
This post has been corrected. See below for details. The gavel came down on 70 sacred Hopi Indian masks at the Drouot auction house in Paris on Friday, generating $1.2 million for the owners and auctioneers – and anger and emotional cries from...Tags: Museums, Mexico, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Auction Service, UNESCO
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