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The Maryland Science Center is a science museum located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The center was opened by the Maryland Academy of Sciences in 1976, with expansions in 1986 and 2004. The museum's attractions include several permanent interactive exhibits, traveling exhibits, a planetarium, a demonstration stage, an observatory, a Segway station and an IMAX theater. The "Fossil Quest" exhibit features fossils from all over the state. "Follow the Blue Crab" looks at the connection between the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, and features a large mechanical blue crab. "Newton's Alley" has many activities that illustrate Sir Issac Newton's scientific principles, and "Dinosaur Mysteries" inc...
The Maryland Science Center is a science museum located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The center was opened by the Maryland Academy of Sciences in 1976, with expansions in 1986 and 2004. The museum's attractions include several permanent interactive exhibits, traveling exhibits, a planetarium, a demonstration stage, an observatory, a Segway station and an IMAX theater. The "Fossil Quest" exhibit features fossils from all over the state. "Follow the Blue Crab" looks at the connection between the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, and features a large mechanical blue crab. "Newton's Alley" has many activities that illustrate Sir Issac Newton's scientific principles, and "Dinosaur Mysteries" inclues more than 12 full-sized dinosaurs and live lizard exhibits. The IMAX theater, added in 1987, is five stories tall and plays both regular and 3-D films. The center participates in community programs such as an overnight "camp-in" for scout troops and middle-school children, and a summer camp for kids.
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Solar exhibit at Maryland Science Center
Maryland WeatherFrom The Sun's print editions: Baltimore Sun reporter Candus Thomson offers this guest post: Star light, star bright. On Thursday, the Maryland Science Center is scheduled to open a three-month exhibit featuring images of the sun taken during NASA solar.....Tags: NASA, Space Programs, Science
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City orders historic carousel out of Inner Harbor
The Inner Harbor's carousel, which has delighted children for three decades and drawn attention as an historic artifact, has been ordered to move by the end of March, a victim of sagging sales and unpaid bills.
But the man who brought the 106-year old...Tags: Rash Field, Horse (animal), Baltimore Development Corporation, Volleyball, Howard County
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Best week ever: Baltimore events, music, movies and more
Lots of new TV, local shows for the first week of 2012.
MOVIES OPENING (Friday; subject to change)
The Devil Inside
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
NOTABLE TV
MONDAY
The Bachelor (season premiere; 8 p.m.; ABC)
Pretty Little Liars (returns from hiatus; 8...Tags: Animal Planet (tv network), Johnny Winter, Shameless (tv program), Justified (tv program), Lifetime (tv network)
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Best Week Ever: Baltimore events, music, movies and more
What's happening in town 12/12-12/18. You know, when you're not shopping.
MOVIES OPENING (Friday; subject to change)
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol
Shame
Sherlock...Tags: Winter Solstice, FX Networks, LLC, Nero (music group), John Waters, Holidays
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Baltimore plans roundabout for Key Highway, Light Street crossing
City traffic engineers are working on the final design for a $7 million traffic circle at the intersection of Key Highway and Light Street.
The roundabout — about half the size of the one in Towson — will replace the traffic lights at the...Tags: Towson, Transportation, Gwynns Falls Trail, Annapolis, Howard County
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Watching the ball drop — at noon
At half past noon on New Year's Eve, slivers of yellow confetti littered the main lobby of the Maryland Science Center, where employees worked to sweep them up.
There, the ball had already dropped — long before the stroke of midnight which, for...Tags: Mardi Gras, Music, Times Square, Science, Port Discovery Children's Museum
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Rockin' in the New Year
Another New Year's Eve, another all-out celebration. Time to make plans.
The close of 2011 will feature a whole host of fun things to do both individually and as a group all throughout Baltimore come Saturday, Dec. 31.
If fireworks are your thing, you'...Tags: USS Constellation, Nottingham, Bars and Clubs, Ellicott City, Towson
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Harford Library expands LEAP science kit collection
Harford County Public Library recently unveiled the expansion of its LEAP: Learn, Explore and Play science kit collection.
According to a library news release, LEAP kits consist of high quality science equipment, materials and resources, and use play...Tags: Libraries, Technology, Aberdeen, Engineering, Harford County
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Perry Hall musician keeps Zim Zemarel's Big Band sound alive
It takes a Big Band sound to battle the disco, punk, thrash rock, heavy metal and country-pop now dominating national soundtracks.
But that's exactly what the Zim Zemarel Band has done in the greater Baltimore area for the better part of 50 years.
And...Tags: Dundalk, William Donald Schaefer, Bars and Clubs, University of Baltimore, U.S. Navy
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Stoop Storytelling returns with tales of family
The Stoop Storytelling Series will present another installment of live, off-the-cuff slices of life Mon., Nov. 21, 8 p.m. at Centerstage. The show will feature local people from various fields speaking on the subject of relatives for an evening titled "We...Tags: Arts, Ellicott City, 5K Run, Entertainment Events, Music
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Inner Harbor to host 'It's a Waterfront Life'
A new holiday light show will engulf Power Plant in a celebratory glow. There will be a lantern parade along the Inner Harbor promenade, a workshop to craft handmade ornaments followed by tree decorating, carolers, public cookie-decorating and rides for...Tags: Pratt Street, Holidays, Entertainment Events, Science, Festive Events
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