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History Of Juneteenth With a Happy Juneteenth Wish
Many areas in the U.S today are celebrating the Juneteenth Day. Juneteenth was the day when back in 1865 Major Gordon Granger told all the enslaved and black people that they are free from slavery. Its just like a national holiday and people
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Call to overhaul 1 of Mall's oldest buildings
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 years ago
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One of the oldest buildings on the National Mall, closed since 2004 because of structural problems, could become a high-tech education center for the Smithsonian Institution under a concept presented Monday. Smithsonian Secretary
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Crime Museum Makes a Move for O.J.'s Killer Suit
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 years ago
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but the museum has a long way to go before it can bag the killer's uniform of injustice...Fred's attorney, David Cook, tells TMZ a unanimous decision has to be made between Fred, O.J. and Mike Gilbert -- the guy who owns the suit -- before the suit
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Scientist parks trannie sex jibe
Geelong :: Australia | 3 years ago
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Richard Dawkins .."I'm buggered if I like being portrayed as a cartoon character buggering a bald transvestite." Photo: Getty Images Some fans of the celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins are finding it hard to get over the brutal satirising of their
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American Scene
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | 3 years ago
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Arizona could become the only state to criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants through an expansion of its trespassing law under a bill likely to pass this year. The bill also would require police to try to determine people's immigration
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SMITHSONIAN DOESN'T WANT O.J. SIMPSON'S SUITE IN THEIR COLLECTION
A battle of the suit worn by O.J. Simpson on October 3, 1995 has been ordered by a judge to be donated to the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian declined the donation, saying it was not appropriate for the museum's collection. The
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Smithsonian to mark sit-in anniversary tonight
Greensboro :: NC :: USA | over 3 years ago
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A four-stool, eight-foot portion of the Woolworth's lunch counter from Greensboro is on view at the museum. "The Greensboro lunch counter, one of the museum's landmark objects, represents the determination of a generation of Americans that decided
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Smithsonian museums saw jump in visits last year
Seattle :: WA :: USA | over 3 years ago
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Visitor counts at the Smithsonian Institution's museums have rebounded to more than 30 million visits in 2009 for the first time since a slump following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A draft report the museum complex released Tuesday shows
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Object Lesson #36
New Haven :: CT :: USA | over 3 years ago
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Here is a memory landscape; not just one place, but many. Vito Bonnano threads his way through the city with an assembly of images, land marking his prints.
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Emmett Till's Original Coffin to be on Display at Smithsonian
In 1955 in Money, Mississippi, fourteen year old Emmett Till was senslessley murdered in an act of racial voilence that lead to the galvanization of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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