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Visit museums for free on Saturday and Sunday
South Florida Sun-SentinelIt's the first full weekend of the month on Saturday and Sunday, which means you can visit nine South Florida museums for free with an ID and a Bank of America credit or debit card. Get in free at more than 150 U.S. venues with BOA's Museum on Us...Tags: West Palm Beach, Social Media, Mass Media, Arts and Culture, Science
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A mustard museum? Only in Wisconsin
MIDDELTON, Wis. — Barry Levenson stopped in his hotel hallway, looked both ways, then pocketed a tiny jar of room service mustard on a discarded tray.
Never mind that as an assistant Wisconsin attorney general 25 years ago, he was about to scale...Tags: College Sports, Wisconsin Badgers, Colleges and Universities, Boston Red Sox, Oprah Winfrey
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Ride the Cass Scenic Railroad in West Virginia
CASS, W.Va. — The Cass Scenic Railroad is a hard-working, up-the-mountain tourist rail line.
It's a slow 7 miles per hour on the steam-powered trains up Cheat Mountain to Whittaker Station and upward to Bald Knob on Back Allegheny Mountain.
That's...Tags: Railway Transportation, Trips and Vacations, History (tv network), Travel, Services and Shopping
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Paris glitters with romance, history and possibility
PARIS — Paris is a city where possibilities are endless, expectations are high, and no one doubts that magic can happen.
Anyone who saw Woody Allen's recent homage to the City of Lights, "Midnight in Paris," knows what I'm talking about. Allen's...Tags: Josephine Baker, Noel Coward, Kate Moss, Artists, Artists
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Astronomer for the Vatican says U.K. a star
Brother Guy Consolmagno, a staff astronomer and the curator of meteorites at the Vatican Observatory, travels about 100,000 miles each year, splitting his time between Tucson, Ariz., and Rome. The planetary scientist also gives 40 to 50 talks annually...Tags: Arts and Culture, Science, Astronomy, Vatican City, London (England)
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Fashion Diary: Fast forward to 2012
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticStealth wealth. Fashion gaming. Elsa Schiaparelli. Raf Simons. What else? Here's a list of stylish people, trends and ideas to pay attention to in 2012. Surrealism. Opening May 10, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's exhibition...Tags: Religion and Belief, Charlie Chaplin, Television, Versace, China
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Palm Springs revival has deals for a song (or close to it)
The Rat Pack lives again — or at least Palm Springs, once the party pad of Sinatra and the boys, does.
The Coachella Valley city, which had devolved into a down-at-the-heels caricature of a Hollywood playground, has reinvented itself: Its retro-...Tags: Springs, Entertainment, Travel, Services and Shopping, Fishing
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Savedoff pleads guilty in historic document case
Less than four months after a Maryland Historical Society employee uncovered a cultural property heist called "truly breathtaking" by national archivists, one of the men charged in the scheme has pleaded guilty.
Jason James Savedoff, 24, admitted...Tags: Court Preliminary, Justice System, Defendants, Canada, Arts and Culture
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Psychics to try and summon spirit of Edgar Allan Poe
Mr. Poe, the microphone is yours.
A group of selected mediums and psychics will be spending a March weekend trying to reach Edgar Allan Poe, the literary giant and creator of the modern detective story who has made Baltimore his permanent home since...Tags: Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Arts and Culture, Museums, Edgar Allan Poe
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Boeing history preserved at Kansas Aviation Museum
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsIt's a company that some say helped shape Wichita. Wednesday we learned Boeing will be leaving Wichita by the end of 2013, and taking a piece of the city's history with it. Boeing has been a part of Wichita for more than 70 years. The Kansas Aviation...Tags: Arts and Culture, Companies and Corporations, Boeing Co., Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations
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Disgraced collector pleads guilty to stealing historical documents
Barry H. Landau, the once-esteemed collector of presidential memorabilia, admitted in federal court Tuesday that he stole thousands of documents regarded as cultural treasures from historical societies and libraries in Baltimore and up the East Coast....Tags: Court Preliminary, Prisons, Trials, Justice System, Wars and Interventions
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Ron Kaye: Unraveling the redevelopment mess
Sooner or later, the bills come due in all our lives — even in the lives of government agencies. Just ask the people who bought a house they couldn't afford or city officials who got addicted over the years to draining vast amounts of tax dollars...Tags: Arts, World War II (1939-1945), Jerry Brown, Arts and Culture, Arts
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