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Space shuttle gives California Science Center an attendance boost
More than 1 million people have visited the California Science Center since space shuttle Endeavour made its debut just over four months ago, far surpassing officials' expectations for the Exposition Park museum. Science Center President Jeffrey Rudolph...
Tags: Kennedy Space Center, Science and Technology, Technology, New York City, Arts and Culture
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Martin Hoffman, painter with Central Florida connections, dies
Painter Martin Joseph Hoffman, a Florida native, died last month in Vero Beach at age 77. Hoffman, who died Feb. 5, was both an illustrator and fine artist. In his varied career, he created many illustrations for Playboy magazine and devised the stylish...
Tags: Arts, Fine Arts, Museums, Arts and Culture, Norton Museum of Art
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Cooking event set for Sunday
Four local women will present a cooking demonstration Sunday in Ellendale, N.D., called “Let's Dish: Cooking from the Heart.” Attendees will be able to sample the food that's prepared by Kari Nishek, Allison Rademacher, Sonja Bommersbach... -
NPR report sparks debate on 'killer kitties'
Sharpen your claws, cat owners: NPR caused a bit of a catfight this week with its story on killer kitties, which wasn’t about about lions and tigers. No one is surprised that bird lovers and outside cat owners are often at odds -- the debate crops...
Tags: Entertainment, Pets, Radio, NPR
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Ghostly ruins reveal one Florida plantation's surprising reality
Not everything was better in the "good old days." That includes tours of historic sites. At Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the early 1970s, I recall docents speaking in hushed tones about "Mr. Jefferson," whose house seemed more a showplace for...
Tags: Slavery, Orlando, Travel, Tourism and Leisure, Africa
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Killing unadoptable cats is a cruel, ineffective approach
A recent study by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been all over the news recently. The study claims cats kill birds and mammals with abandon, and that trap-neuter-return — the nationally...
Tags: University of Florida, Science and Technology, Science, Tampa
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Channeling the spirits in color and line at Ellicott City gallery
Ephrem Kouakou prefers to work while the world sleeps. The artist says that in the dead of night, absent the sound of any human voice or music, he can best hear the "spirits" talking. He says he's been hearing the spirits steer his brush since he...
Tags: Howard University, Arts, Customs and Tradition, Arts and Culture, Algeria
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Digest: UMBC's Adams again one of top soccer assistants in country
Soccer UMBC's Adams again one of top assistants in country For the sixth time since 2000, UMBC associate head coach Anthony Adams (Calvert Hall) has been recognized by College Soccer News as one of the top assistant coaches in the nation. The web...Tags: American Hockey League, Sports, Lacrosse, Alexander Ovechkin, Soccer
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Sandy relief package swells aid for past disasters
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives and watchdog groups are mounting a "not-so-fast" campaign against a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeastern governors and lawmakers hope to push through the House this coming week. Their...
Tags: Republican Party, Washington, DC, Staten Island (New York City), Dan Coats, FEMA
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Shuttle's end
April 26 Countless Americans watched the transport of Discovery, the space shuttle, to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. It was often described as a bittersweet event. As I watched, I could imagine a sad face on the base...
Tags: Winter Park
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Richard D. Pickens
Richard D. Pickens, owner of a Crofton interior design firm who lived in Union Square, where he served as president of the Friends of the H.L. Mencken House, died Tuesday of stomach cancer at Anne Arundel Medical Center.
He was 50.
"I was dumbfounded...Tags: Baltimore County, Crofton, Business Enterprises, Nashua Corporation, Arts and Culture
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Hillary Clinton will give five artists medals for embassy art
For 50 years the U.S. State Department has been deploying visual art as part of the art of diplomacy, via a program called Art in Embassies. On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will give the U.S. State Department Medal of Arts to five...
Tags: Arts, U.S. Department of State, Turkey, U.S. Embassy, Istanbul (Turkey)
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