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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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• CultureFest offers taste of Louisiana

  - 2007-10-22

  Smithsonian magazine and the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism are partnering to hold Louisiana CultureFest in New Orleans this weekend. This year's celebration, featuring 18 events from Friday through Sunday, invites residents and visitors to sample the state's legendary art, music, history, architecture and cuisine. Organizers...

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• "Design Matters" Internet Talk Show Nominated For 2007 People's Design Award From Cooper Hewitt Museum

  - 2007-10-16

  Award from Smithsonian's National Design Museum Honors Most Popular Contributions to International Graphic Design; Public Voting Ends Wednesday, October 17th PHOENIX -- Modavox, Inc. (OTCBB: MDVX), a leading Internet broadcaster and program syndicator, announced today that "Design Matters" with Debbie Millman, Modavox's Web-based radio talk show broadcast every Friday...

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• Famous fossil heads to U.S. for controversial tour

  - 2007-08-07

  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- After 3.2 million years in East Africa, one of the world's most famous set of fossils was quietly flown out of Ethiopia overnight for a U.S. tour that some experts say is a dangerous gamble with an irreplaceable relic. Although the fossil known as...

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• 'Huipiles: A Celebration' Event at the Mexican Cultural Institute

  - 2007-07-18

  To: FASHION EDITORSContact: Rafael Laveaga of the Embassy of Mexico, +1-202-728-1650 WASHINGTON, July 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Embassy of Mexico informs that on Thursday, July 19, at 7:00 PM, the exhibition "Huipiles: A Celebration" will be inaugurated at the Mexican Cultural Institute (2829 16th St., Washington DC, 20009). The event,...

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• Editorial | A List of Species

  - 2007-04-14

  The letter for today is  M. M  for a million. M  for milestone.The number for today is  more than 3,000 .That's the number of biologists working together to create a list of all the known species in the world. On Monday came the announcement that the catalog had surpassed...

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• A CARRIKER TRILOGY: CHAPTERS IN A SAGA OF NEOTROPICAL ORNITHOLOGY

  - 2007-01-01

  A CARRIKER TRILOGY: CHAPTERS IN A SAGA OF NEOTROPICAL ORNITHOLOGY Vista Nieve. The Remarkable, True Adventures of an Early Twentieth-century Naturalist and His Family in Colombia, South America.-M. R. Carriker. 2001. Blue Mantle Press, Rio Hondo, Texas, xiii + 313 pp., 56 figures, 3 maps. ISBN 0-9665485-2-3. Paperback, $18.95. Experiences...

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• SHIP PLANS FROM THE SMITHSONIAN

  - 2006-11-01

  The Smithsonian's collection of watercraft plans, maintained by the History of Technology Division of the National Museum of American History, is a valuable resource for the maritime historian, the student of Naval architecture, other scholars, the model builder, and craftspeople. To make this collection more accessible to the public, blackline...

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• Choices are growing among women-only tour operators.(Going Places)(Trip tips)

  - 2006-10-29

  Byline: George Hobica and Kim Liang Tan Daily Herald Correspondents Lately there's been a glut of articles regarding "mancations": getaways for men only. Lest we forget about the other side of the coin, for many years several tour companies have offered vacations exclusively for...

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• Press Preview of the Fujifilm Giant Panda Habitat and Asia Trail

  - 2006-10-10

  To: Assignment Desk, Daybook EditorContact: John Gibbons, 202-633-3083 or 202-391-4231, or Peper Long, 202-633-3082 or 202-391-2471, both of the Smithsonian Institution.News Advisory:WHAT: Press Preview of the Fujifilm Giant Panda Habitat and Asia TrailWHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 11, 8 a.m. -- Remarks followed by a site overview and orientation by Susan Ades,...

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