11/22/2008
Renovated American history museum reopens (AP via Yahoo! News)
George and Martha Washington, Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz" and other costumed characters greeted thousands of visitors Friday as the National Museum of American History reopened after a two-year, $85 million renovation.
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11/22/2008
Motorsport: Home team hopes history repeats (The New Zealand Herald)
Win the Sepang race and become A1GP champion. Well, that's how it has worked for the entire, three-year history of the World Cup of motorsport - with France, Germany and Switzerland winning in Malaysia.
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11/21/2008
American History Museum gets a major makeover (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The American History Museum, famous for hosting US treasures from the star-spangled banner of old, to pop-culture memorabilia, reopened Friday after an 85-million-dollar makeover.
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11/22/2008
Renovated American history museum reopens [3:00 p.m.] (The Farmington Daily Times)
Renovated American history museum reopens [3:00 p.m.]
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11/22/2008
American History: Just Another Washington Museum? (DCist)
The Washington Post's Marc Fisher writes an expansive review of the newly improved Smithsonian National Museum of American History, which opened just yesterday. Fisher sums up the questions that a lot of people, this writer included, had about the state of the museum post renovation: Will the history museum embrace a dumbed-down, rah-rah approach to telling the American story, or is there ...
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11/22/2008
Howard Jacobson: Read more literature and less history. That's the lesson of Hitler's deformity (Independent)
So Hitler actually did have only one ball. I call that a pity. Not for Hitler, or even for Mrs Hitler, who might have thought that half a Hitler was better than none. But a pity for history. A pity for psychoanalysis. A pity for satire. And a pity for popular verse.
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11/22/2008
Harper says Canada will not repeat history's mistakes (CTV Toronto)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged Saturday that Canada will not repeat the mistakes of history when managing its way through the current economic crisis.
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11/22/2008
History-making season continues for Patriots (Bowling Green Daily News)
SCOTTSVILLE — In a line of already historic football nights at Allen County-Scottsville, another was added as the Patriots beat Lone Oak 33-14 on Friday to advance to the Class 4A regional final for the first time in school history.
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11/22/2008
Smithsonian's American History Museum Reopens (WBKO Bowling Green)
The National Museum of American History has reopened after a two-year, $85 million renovation.
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11/22/2008
Group hunts for specters of history (Boston Globe)
SALEM - It's an austere icon of America's tortured history of witch hysteria. Its very name evokes this city's unending fascination with the occult.
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