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History of protest in Minnesota is meeting topic

...Sibley: Divided Heart" (2004), of the state's first governor.Her articles have appeared in Minnesota History, The Smithsonian Journal of History, Journal of the West, the Wisconsin Magazine of History, Daedalus, and many others.She was a longtime...

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Wreath presented at Tomb of the Unknows Soldier

...Saturday.Students were scheduled to tour the major monuments and sites around the Washington, D.C. area, including the Smithsonian, the new Martin Luther King Memorial, Ford Theater, and the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. WDC band director...

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CLC students tour Washington D.C., New York

...Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, the White House, Cannon Office Building, U.S. Botanical Garden, American Indian Museum, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and a personal tour of the Capitol by Congressman Rick Nolan. It was during the tour with...

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Smithsonian chief pulls back plan to close animal research center

...and animal lovers, the head of the Smithsonian Institution said Sunday he is withdrawing...interpreted by many as indicating that the Smithsonian was backing away from its commitment...biological sciences in particular," Smithsonian Secretary Lawrence Small said in a written...

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Semiretired farmer offers his own version of Smithsonian in form of antique-filled shed

GLYNDON (AP) -- Move aside, Smithsonian. The Kragsonian is here. That's what Russell Kragnes calls...blue-and-white 1948 Indian Chief motorcycle with sidecar. The Smithsonian Institution is a sprawling complex of buildings in Washington...

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Smithsonian museum shows images of a peaceful Africa

...symbols, a motorized, life-size metal girl who claps her steel hands every half-hour for a festival. A unit of the Smithsonian Institution that deals with traditional African art, the museum strikes out in a new direction Sunday. It opens "Encounters...

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Asteroid to make close pass by Earth Friday, Feb. 15

...that luxury."Wentworth's observatory is a registered research facility with the Minor Planets Center of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He tracks near Earth orbit asteroids. "It's better than TV," he said and chuckled. "You...

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Entertainment briefs - Aug. 16

...Minnesota venues.One of their original arrangements, "Barn Again!" was included in a collection of rural Americana for the Smithsonian Institute and they're currently featured in a Prairie Public TV program titled "Prairie Musicians."Members of the WoodPicks...

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Rembering Neil Armstrong

...historical events likely to be long remembered from the 20th Century are the moon landing and the first atomic bomb, said Smithsonian Institution space curator Roger Launius."There is no way to overestimate that significance in human history and he is...

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Vast food

...the style of eating out changed? A Smithsonian exhibit called, "Key Ingredients...gallery in the Franklin Arts Center. The Smithsonian notes the exhibit "explains the little...cheesehead" Wednesday found at the Smithsonian exhibit called "Key Ingredients: America...

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