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• IMAX® Theater Film Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag Surpasses 150 Million Viewers Worldwide

  - 2008-07-28

  Film Has Reached Over 1 Million Viewers at the Smithsonian IMAX[R] Theaters Alone, Making It the 2nd-Highest Grossing Aviation Film Ever at the Smithsonian EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- According to Smithsonian V.P. of IMAX[R] Theater Operations, Toby Mensforth, the dynamic Giant Screen film "Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag" has...

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• Museum, magazine, mogul unveil furniture lines

  - 2007-05-14

  CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- You'll soon see three new furniture lines from American institutions: The Smithsonian, Better Homes and Gardens -- and Donald Trump. Trump created the most buzz when new looks were unveiled at the High Point Market, formerly the International Home Furnishings Market. He strode the red...

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• A study in storage.(RESEARCH)

  - 2007-03-01

  A University of Central Florida team has developed a digital storage system that can hold as many as 500 movies--or the entire collection of historical documents from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum--on one DVD-size disk or a small cube. The Two-Photon 3-D Optical Data...

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• Smithsonian packing treasures

  - 2006-09-03

  WASHINGTON -- Oscar the Grouch probably won't be happy about his next home: a cold, dark box that is far from "Sesame Street" and his beloved trash can. The puppet is among tens of thousands of exhibits and artifacts that will be carefully stored as the Smithsonian Institution's...

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• Carousel to spin again at Please Touch

  - 2006-05-10

  The Please Touch Museum intends to resurrect the flamboyant carousel that bobbed and flashed around and around in Woodside Park before the park was demolished in the 1950s, museum officials announced yesterday. The 1924 carousel, considered one of the finest productions of the famous Philadelphia-based Dentzel Carousel Co., has...

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• Press Briefing and Tour of Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, March 23

  - 2006-03-16

  News Advisory WHAT: Press briefing and tour of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, home of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery WHEN:Thursday, March 23 9:30 a.m. -- Sign-in and refreshments 10 a.m. -- Presentation by museum directors, followed by Q&A and...

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• New museum in Washington, D.C., honors Native American spirit, identity.

  - 2004-09-16

  By Michael Kilian, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 16--WASHINGTON--In what amounts to a national act of apology for mistreated peoples, Native Americans are getting their place among the shrines of American nationhood with the opening of the National Museum...

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• The face of extinction

  - 2004-05-01

  Until the middle of the nineteenth century, as documented by no less an eminence than John James Audubon, passenger pigeons by the billions turned day to night as they passed overhead in the American skies [see "Audubon in Kentucky," by William Souder, page 46]. Yet by the turn of the...

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• San Antonio Latino Arts Complex Gets $1 Million Donation.

  - 2003-10-01

  By John W. Gonzalez, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 1--SAN ANTONIO--A dynasty in the city's downtown restaurant business donated $1 million Tuesday to hasten the construction of a Latino arts and culture complex that is backed by the Smithsonian...

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• Smithsonian science: first class on a coach budget. (Washington Watch).

  - 2003-04-01

  Founded in 1846 "for the increase land diffusion of knowledge," the Smithsonian Institution is a world leader in scientific research spanning paleobiology to planetary science. Over the past year, three separate panels concluded that the Smithsonian Institution has met its goal when it comes to science, but continued progress is...

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