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• CODY MAY GET SMITHSONIAN ARTIFACTS

  - 2008-06-22

  Wyoming - The Buffalo Bill Historical Center may soon be displaying rare and priceless artifacts on loan from the Smithsonian Institution. The Cody center announced Friday that it has been accepted as an affliate of the Smithsonian, a status granted to 159 museums in 40 states, Panama...

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• AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, THE

  - 2006-07-01

  Washington, D.C. is filled with museums, art galleries and monuments and is also home to a variety of diverse neighborhoods, some just outside the Capitol. This year's CFA Convention will be held October 25-27, 2006, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, the city's largest hotel. D.C. comprises about 500,000 residents...

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• Lonnie G. Bunch: keeper of African-American history

  - 2005-08-01

  LONNIE G. Bunch needs artifacts to help tell the story of the African-American experience. He is head of the soon-to-be-built Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture, and he is preparing to scour the nation for exhibition items. "We're looking for things that will speak volumes about...

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• Preparing exhibit displays for name museums

  - 2003-11-01

  Imagine the handle of a primitive tool, carved with the image of a carnivore. The cutting blade broke away long ago, but the grip remains. Perhaps the tool was used to skin small animals for their pelts. Perhaps it was used to dress deer. The handle is a window into...

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• National Air and Space Museum's new addition

  - 2002-10-01

  Immediately following WWII II a law was passed establishing a National Air Museum. This was changed to National Air and Space Museum NASM in 1966. Thirty years after the first law was passed, NASM moved from a WWI temporary building on the South Lawn of the Smithsonian building (the "Castle")...

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• Canadian Museum of Civilazation: The Vikings are Coming!

  - 2001-12-13

  HULL, QUEBEC, DECEMBER 13, 2001 On May 8, 2002, the Canadian Museum of Civilization will be the site of a new sort of Viking invasion with the opening of the exhibition Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga. Featuring more than 300 priceless artifacts gathered from...

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• The New Old Thing - Vijay Chattha - Brief Article

  - 2001-08-06

  The economic slump has sparked more than a few career U-turns, but Vijay Chattha is taking it to extremes. The 24-year-old hipster and DJ was co-founder and co-CEO of Urbangroove.com, a Philadelphia-based network of nightlife Web sites, when he took a summerlong leave to join the Smithsonian Institution's Sikh Heritage...

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• CD Brings Smithsonian Artifacts to Your Desktop.

  - 1998-11-01

  Some of America's greatest artifacts, including many never before on public display, can now be viewed from your desktop PC, thanks to a new CD-ROM produced for the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian Museum Collections features 670 images of historic artifacts from all 16 Smithsonian museums and...

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• How can a stuffed skunk. (David Police uses artifacts from Smithsonian Institution's natural history collections to teach mathematics)

  - 1995-03-22

  HOW CAN A STUFFED SKUNK and a nautilus shell improve students' learning skills? Just ask David Police, a Burris Laboratory School math instructor--he uses them, along with a number of other natural history artifacts from the Smithsonian Institution's collections to help improve math scores in his...

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• Smithsonian head fights for national Indian museum

  - 1995-03-16

  Bunty Anquoe Indian Country Today Lakota Times 03-16-1995 Smithsonian head fights for national Indian museum. By Bunty Anquoe Today Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman went to bat for National Museum of the American Indian...

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