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• Starkey's Zon™ Wins the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's 2008 People's Design Award

  - 2008-10-27

  MINNEAPOLIS -- Starkey Laboratories, Inc., one of the world's leading hearing technology companies, is proud to announce that its ZonTM hearing aid is the winner of the 2008 People's Design Award presented by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Zon, the best-in-class receiver-in-canal line of products that was launched this...

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• Smithsonian Latin Center Pays Tribute to Puerto Rican Culture

  - 2008-09-19

  Video Highlights Available WASHINGTON -- Puerto Rico takes center stage at the Smithsonian Latin Center in Washington, D.C. beginning this week. "Puerto Rico at the Smithsonian" has partnered with the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico MAPR to create a series of programs highlighting Latin American culture through exhibitions...

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• Head of Yahoo! Research and Smithsonian Director of Web and New Media Strategy to Keynote Gilbane Boston Content Management Conference

  - 2008-09-18

  Annual Conference to Help Attendees Address Growing Content Management Requirements Generated by Social Media Tools BOSTON -- "Where Content Management Meets Social Media" is the focus of the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference (http://gilbaneboston.com/), set to take place December 2-4, 2008 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Produced...

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• RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture Opens Feb. 8 at the National Portrait Gallery

  - 2008-01-10

  To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Bethany Bentley of Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, +1-202-633-8293 WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- LL Cool J, Erykah Badu, Common and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are just a few of the hip hop artists featured in paintings and photographs in RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and...

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• Museum of American Finance Appoints Makovsky + Company

  - 2008-01-09

  NEW YORK -- Makovsky + Company, one of the nation's largest independent public relations and investor relations firms, today announced that it has been retained by the Museum of American Finance, a Smithsonian affiliate, to manage the communications for its grand opening at 48 Wall Street. Kristin Aguilera, Communications...

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• Historic interest

  - 2007-11-19

  "That general area is one of great archeological interest," House said. "It goes back to the 1880s. There was an archeologist from the Smithsonian named Edward Palmer, and he visited a farm owner named Thibault. Mr. Thibault showed him some little mounds on his farm that he'd been digging in,...

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• Smithsonian Institution Launches Exploratory Phase to Showcase Indian American History

  - 2007-10-11

  To: FOREIGN EDITORSContact: Toby Chaudhuri, +1-978-884-8626, for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program; or Francey Youngberg of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program, +1-202-487-8160 WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program Director Franklin Odo today kicked-off an exploratory phase for a major project to showcase Indian American...

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• Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum celebrates 40th Anniversary

  - 2007-10-08

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] More than 200 guests came out to help celebrate the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum's 40th Anniversary gala on the museum's grounds in Washington D.C. The event, which carried the theme "Celebrating a History, Building a Future," paid tribute to the nation's first federally funded community museum...

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• Wanted: African-American stories for Smithsonian exhibit

  - 2007-08-12

  Executive director Holly Alonso, with Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, is excited to be hosting field recordings for StoryCorps Griot, a year-long initiative to gather and preserve the life stories of African Americans living in the Oakland area. As reported this week, the ambitious story gathering...

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• Code talker exhibit comes to Barrington.(News)

  - 2007-07-28

  Byline: Chad Brooks cbrooks@@dailyherald.com Today, talking in code may look something like "RUOK?" or "TTYL." Many teens enamored with text-messaging would know this to mean, "Are you OK?" and "Talk to you later." But decades ago,...

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