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The American Museum of Natural History is a landmark institution on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Its collection contains more than 32 million specimens, but only a fraction can be on display within its 46 exhibition halls.
The American Museum of Natural History is a landmark institution on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Its collection contains more than 32 million specimens, but only a fraction can be on display within its 46 exhibition halls.
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Tulane Museum Awarded Grant
Staff reporterTulane University's Museum of Natural History has received a $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grand will be used to redesign a computer program that a museum manager designed six years ago. The grant will update GEOLocate,...Tags: Entertainment, Gaming
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Giant Squid Pulled From Depths Of Gulf
ABC26 NewsGovernment scientists reached down 1,500 feet off Louisiana's coast and pulled up a giant squid - the first ever caught in the Gulf of Mexico. The last time scientists got a giant squid from the Gulf, it was 1954 and the animal was dead and floating....Tags: Death, Louisiana, Science and Technology, Washington (U.S. state)
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Friday Morning Coffee: A Breakfast Buffet Of Links.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. If you're like us, the chances are pretty good that, even at this early hour, you're already looking forward to the long holiday weekend ahead. If you're even in the office this morning, perhaps you're...... -
Dunkin Donuts Studio On The Run: 105-Year-Old Philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis
PIX11.com105-year-old philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, was celebrated last week at the American Museum of Natural History for a generous gift supporting the Museum`s Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program. This is the first stand-alone Master's degree...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Museums, Arts and Culture, Science and Technology, Doughnuts
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Indy 500 broadcast: A mix of the past and present
Perhaps no other major sporting event in this country is in more of a constant state of flux, while at the same time, still so steeped in tradition, like the Indianapolis 500. It's the challenge of keeping up with the times while also making sure to...Tags: Marco Andretti, Indianapolis 500, Celebrity Apprentice (tv program), ESPN (tv network), Memorial Day
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John Gray to lead Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
John Gray, who rode off into retirement about 16 months ago after 11 years as president of the Autry National Center of the American West, is making an unexpected return astride one of the world's most-visited cultural institutions: He's been named...
Tags: Museums, Awards and Prizes, Arts and Culture, Francis Scott Key, Gene Autry
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Quick Takes: Windfall for Smithsonian
An energy businessman is donating a record $35 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to build a new dinosaur hall on the National Mall, the museum complex announced Thursday. The donation by David H. Koch, the executive vice...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lifetime (tv network), The Rolling Stones (music group), Mick Jagger, NC-17 Rated Movies
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Billionaire David Koch gives $35 million to Natural History Museum
David H. Koch's deep philanthropic pockets will benefit dinosaurs. The executive vice president of Koch Industries has donated $35 million to the National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution announced Thursday. The gift will go to the...
Tags: Fossils, Paleontology, David Koch, The Washington Post, Museums
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Chronicling 'America's Other Audubon'
As a little girl in Ohio in the mid-1800s, Genevieve "Gennie" Jones would accompany her country doctor father in his buggy as he visited patients. Along the way they'd discuss the natural world, which turned into a lifelong passion. Then in 1876, consumed...
Tags: John James Audubon, Arts and Culture, Theodore Roosevelt
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'Ice Dragon' not your typical family film
"The Ice Dragon" is a family movie. That doesn't mean the same thing to Swedish director Martin Högdahl as it might to an American audience. For one thing, no American family movie would have an 11-year-old protagonist so often by name refer to his dad'...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Sweden, Entertainment, Movies, Social Services
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A natural history that almost wasn't: 'America's Other Audubon'
Jacket CopyAs a little girl in Ohio in the mid-1800s, Genevieve "Gennie" Jones would accompany her country doctor father in his buggy as he visited patients. Along the way they'd discuss the natural world, which turned into a lifelong passion. Then...... -
A potent look at Florida's past
Just two miles north of St. Augustine, along the muddy banks of a twisting tidal creek, lies the ruins of the oldest settlement of free blacks in America. Buried with Fort Mose, as the 18th century wood-built defense outpost is called, was an almost...
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