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Jeff Bezos Paid $16,000 in Parking Tickets for Washington DC Mansion: Report
Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos who paid $23 million in an all-cash deal for the old Textile Museum in the upscale Kalorama neighbourhood in the US capital, also paid $16,840 as parking fines during the renovation from October 2016 till October 2019.
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Museum Exhibits 3,500-Year-Old Disposable Cup That May Have Held Wine
About 3,500 years separate the two cups that will sit next to each other at the heart of a new museum exhibit in London.
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Oxford Professor Allegedly Stole Oldest Bible Fragments And Sold Them
Since 2012, scholars and University of Oxford officials have been trying to trace a rumor that the oldest Bible fragment ever discovered not just existed but had been mysteriously stolen and sold to American arts-and-crafts giant Hobby Lobby.
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"Wall Of Spies": New Museum You Can't Visit Dedicated To US Turncoats
In November 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin raised a glass with his military intelligence officials to honor and celebrate an American named George Koval.
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Legendary Jet That Flew Faster Than Rifle Bullet Heads For Storage
They swept the dirt from its path as the old rocket plane was rolled out of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Tuesday night.
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3.8-Million-Year-Old Skull Is An Iconic Specimen In Humans' Evolution
About 3.8 million years ago, a distant human relative took his final steps. Swept into a river delta, his head was buried in sand that, over time, hardened into a stone helmet. The skull fossilized within the sandstone, to the delight of the scientists who discovered the cranium in 2016.
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New Species Of Bloodsucking Leech With 3 Jaws, 59 Teeth Found
A newly discovered bloodsucking, olive-green leech with three jaws and as many as 59 teeth has been found about 40 miles outside of downtown Washington.
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Activist Who Spotlighted Black History Found Dead In Trunk Of Car: Police
Sadie Roberts-Joseph's sister remembers her as a woman who made things better - who led neighborhood trash cleanups and house repairs, who launched a local group to fight drugs and violence, who founded a black history museum because, as Roberts-Joseph liked to tell everyone, "If you don't know where you came from, it's hard to know where you're go...
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Millions Of Jellyfish Headed To Israel's Coast, Lifeguards Warn Swimmers
Millions of jellyfish are headed toward Israel's coast on their nearly annual pilgrimage, and thousands have clogged the filters of a southern power station. Locals and visitors are already reporting sightings of - and stings by - the creatures, whose presence can spell disappointment for vacationers and trouble for tourism-related businesses. Life...
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Museum’s Exhibit Of Tumours, Skulls Is Curated Peek Into A Bizarre World
The exhibition was created by the Mtter Museum, located inside the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Styled like a 19th-century cabinet museum, the Mtter has gained a reputation for its bizarre collections, including Grover Cleveland's jaw tumor, countless human skulls, and any number of diseased and abnormal body parts.
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It Only Took 66 Million Years, But A T-Rex Is Finally Making Its US Debut
The history of the skeleton known to Montanans as the "Wankel T rex," to the Smithsonian as the "Nation's T rex" and to scientists as "MOR555," has three parts. The first we know little about - researchers can't even tell whether that hatchling was a girl or a boy. The second part was 24 billion days of stony silence. But the third ... that's where...
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Black Students On Field Trip Told "No Food, No Drink, No Watermelon"
The field trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts was supposed to be a reward for good grades and excellent behavior.
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IM Pei, The Architect Behind Louvre Pyramid, Dies At 102
I.M. Pei, an American modernist architect regarded as one of the world's leading designers of civic centers and cultural institutions, including the National Gallery of Art's East Building, the glass pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, died May 16 at a hospital in Manhattan. He ...
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Ingenious Gadgets, Complex Challenges At All-New Spy Museum
Relocated in a gleaming new steel and glass building double the size of its former premises, the Spy Museum in Washington still amazes and charms with the tales and gadgets of the undercover world going back centuries.
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Notre Dame Was Built by Craftsmen Eight Centuries Ago, Now It May Be Up to Robots to Save It
Notre Dame rebuilding effort will likely draw upon expertise gleaned from disasters like the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan and the Brazilian National Museum fire
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Jeff Bezos Paid $16,000 in Parking Tickets for Washington DC Mansion: Report
Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos who paid $23 million in an all-cash deal for the old Textile Museum in the upscale Kalorama neighbourhood in the US capital, also paid $16,840 as parking fines during the renovation from October 2016 till October 2019.
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Museum Exhibits 3,500-Year-Old Disposable Cup That May Have Held Wine
About 3,500 years separate the two cups that will sit next to each other at the heart of a new museum exhibit in London.
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Oxford Professor Allegedly Stole Oldest Bible Fragments And Sold Them
Since 2012, scholars and University of Oxford officials have been trying to trace a rumor that the oldest Bible fragment ever discovered not just existed but had been mysteriously stolen and sold to American arts-and-crafts giant Hobby Lobby.
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"Wall Of Spies": New Museum You Can't Visit Dedicated To US Turncoats
In November 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin raised a glass with his military intelligence officials to honor and celebrate an American named George Koval.
-
Legendary Jet That Flew Faster Than Rifle Bullet Heads For Storage
They swept the dirt from its path as the old rocket plane was rolled out of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Tuesday night.
-
3.8-Million-Year-Old Skull Is An Iconic Specimen In Humans' Evolution
About 3.8 million years ago, a distant human relative took his final steps. Swept into a river delta, his head was buried in sand that, over time, hardened into a stone helmet. The skull fossilized within the sandstone, to the delight of the scientists who discovered the cranium in 2016.
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New Species Of Bloodsucking Leech With 3 Jaws, 59 Teeth Found
A newly discovered bloodsucking, olive-green leech with three jaws and as many as 59 teeth has been found about 40 miles outside of downtown Washington.
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Activist Who Spotlighted Black History Found Dead In Trunk Of Car: Police
Sadie Roberts-Joseph's sister remembers her as a woman who made things better - who led neighborhood trash cleanups and house repairs, who launched a local group to fight drugs and violence, who founded a black history museum because, as Roberts-Joseph liked to tell everyone, "If you don't know where you came from, it's hard to know where you're go...
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Millions Of Jellyfish Headed To Israel's Coast, Lifeguards Warn Swimmers
Millions of jellyfish are headed toward Israel's coast on their nearly annual pilgrimage, and thousands have clogged the filters of a southern power station. Locals and visitors are already reporting sightings of - and stings by - the creatures, whose presence can spell disappointment for vacationers and trouble for tourism-related businesses. Life...
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Museum’s Exhibit Of Tumours, Skulls Is Curated Peek Into A Bizarre World
The exhibition was created by the Mtter Museum, located inside the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Styled like a 19th-century cabinet museum, the Mtter has gained a reputation for its bizarre collections, including Grover Cleveland's jaw tumor, countless human skulls, and any number of diseased and abnormal body parts.
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It Only Took 66 Million Years, But A T-Rex Is Finally Making Its US Debut
The history of the skeleton known to Montanans as the "Wankel T rex," to the Smithsonian as the "Nation's T rex" and to scientists as "MOR555," has three parts. The first we know little about - researchers can't even tell whether that hatchling was a girl or a boy. The second part was 24 billion days of stony silence. But the third ... that's where...
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Black Students On Field Trip Told "No Food, No Drink, No Watermelon"
The field trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts was supposed to be a reward for good grades and excellent behavior.
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IM Pei, The Architect Behind Louvre Pyramid, Dies At 102
I.M. Pei, an American modernist architect regarded as one of the world's leading designers of civic centers and cultural institutions, including the National Gallery of Art's East Building, the glass pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, died May 16 at a hospital in Manhattan. He ...
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Ingenious Gadgets, Complex Challenges At All-New Spy Museum
Relocated in a gleaming new steel and glass building double the size of its former premises, the Spy Museum in Washington still amazes and charms with the tales and gadgets of the undercover world going back centuries.
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Notre Dame Was Built by Craftsmen Eight Centuries Ago, Now It May Be Up to Robots to Save It
Notre Dame rebuilding effort will likely draw upon expertise gleaned from disasters like the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan and the Brazilian National Museum fire
