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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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• Smithsonian lambastes ex-Utahn on expenses

  - 2007-08-02

  WASHINGTON -- A new report by the Smithsonian Institution's inspector general has found that former Utahn Gary Beer, ex-chief of the museum's business unit, accrued $202,659 in expenses from 2000 to 2005, of which most -- 88 percent -- were either unallowable, poorly documented or unauthorized. Some of...

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• Mystery, a mass grave and 'Ghosts'

  - 2007-03-08

  A dark mark mars the history of the Irish in Chester County, and it's linked to a mysterious mass grave in East Whiteland Township called Duffy's Cut. In 1832, 57 Irishmen from Donegal, Tyrone and Derry arrived in Philadelphia to work on a stretch of the Philadelphia and Columbia...

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• Former Sen. Mike Gravel to Speak at Camp Democracy on Sept. 15

  - 2006-09-13

  News Advisory: WHO: Former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska, 1969-1981) WHAT: Three Addresses on the war in Iraq and the National Initiative for Democracy WHERE: Camp Democracy, Constitution Ave. between 14th and 15th Streets N.W., The Main Tent WHEN: Friday, Sept. 15 at noon, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. For...

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• "Concourse and Periphery" in perspective: well past planning.(National Museum of the American Indian)

  - 2005-06-22

  The following article was first published in 2002, about a year and a half before the completion of the National Museum of the American Indian building on the mall in Washington DC and well before the celebrations that accompanied the opening of its doors to the public...

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• Leading the pack.(FREEZE FRAME)

  - 2005-06-20

  At the "Cable's Leaders in Learning" awards gala, held at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York: presenters Ted Alexandre, MTV Networks; John Anderson, ESPN; Wolf Blitzer, CNN; Jeff Johnson, BET; Bill Curtis, A&E Network; and Marc Summers, Food Network. ...

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• Is the Smithsonian Promoting Religion?

  - 2005-03-07

  Exhibits at National Museum of the American Indian Criticize Christianity But Not Native ReligionsThe American Civil Liberties Union argued in the Supreme Court last week that two Kentucky counties violated the 1st Amendment ban on Congress's establishing a religion when they posted the Ten Commandments in their courthouses."They have erected...

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• Resolutions issued on free speech, Smithsonian

  - 2002-07-01

  The American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS in February approved one resolution affirming the value of free speech and another expressing concern about recent events at the Smithsonian Institution. The free speech resolution, coming at a time when some scholars have been concerned that the wartime atmosphere may...

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• On Working for The National Museum of the American Indian

  - 2002-03-27

  Capture, George P. Horse Indian Country Today Lakota Times 03-27-2002 I have been wanting to write this letter to our Indian community for a long time but time passes so quickly. On Dec. 10, 2000 the Smithsonian's National Museum of the...

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• Outside In - Outsider Art style; painter Henry Darger - Brief Article

  - 2001-08-01

  Here's a detail from "After Marcocina," by Henry Darger (1892-1973), currently one of the art world's hottest stars. Darger's bizarre works will inaugurate Manhattan's new Museum of American Folk Art in December, further mainstreaming so-called Outsider Art. That exploding category includes work, often naive, by self-taught "eccentrics." Darger's watercolors have...

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