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'Body Worlds' draws a record attendance
A lively display of dead bodies that ends its seven-month run at the Maryland Science Center on Monday has smashed local museum attendance records to become the most popular traveling exhibit in Baltimore history, drawing more than 300,000 visitors,...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Charity, Tourism and Leisure, Baltimore Museum of Art, Corporate Officers
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Anne Frank photos restored
Associated PressAMSTERDAM — The Anne Frank House museum said Friday that it has restored more than 50photographs and images the Jewish teenager pasted on the wall of her room to cheer herself up while hiding from the Nazis. The water-stained collage of celebrities...Tags: Anne Frank, Greta Garbo, August, Elizabeth II, Sonja Henie
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Bulletin Board: Palm Beach County events
Today Art film, Babette's Feast, Danish. Free with paid admission, 2 p.m., Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real Mizner Park. Adults $8; seniors $6; students $4. Call 561-392-2500. Art Walk, 6-9 p.m. along Plaza Real, Mizner Park. Music by jazz...Tags: Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Lake Worth, Schools, Clubs and Associations
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Creating a 'Tableaux Vivant'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOne of the biggest attractions at the annual Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach is the tableaux vivants -- a series of notable paintings and sculptures brought to life by actors in costume and make-up. Times photographer Lori Shepler recently went...Tags: John Sloan, Edgar Degas, Painting, New York, Celebrity
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Serenity Of Venice
Los Angeles TimesPianissimo, pianissimo. That's how morning comes on Campo Santa Maria Formosa. Softly. Pigeons dawdle around a trash can. The woman who tends the newsstand gives her dog a bowl of water. Then the grate at the Bar all'Orologio clangs open, a sure sign...Tags: Machine Manufacturing, Indiana Jones, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Venice, Tourism and Leisure
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ALMANAC
On Aug. 22, 1775, England's King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of open rebellion. In 1787 inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates of the Continental Congress. In 1846 the United...Tags: Edvard Munch, Dorothy Parker, Althea Gibson, John Fitch, Pat Robertson
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This week's travel deals
Biking in France The Loire Valley's gently undulating hills -- and the historic castles that dot the landscape -- make this a trip made in bike-riders' heaven. This eight-day trip, starting at $1,260 per person, winds its way from Amboise, with its castle...Tags: Beach Vacations, Travel Deals, New York
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The Wiggles at Nassau Coliseum
gosee Leonardo da Vinci fans fascinated by the artist's dissection and anatomy drawings can learn more about them at a digital projection lecture from 7 to 8 tonight at Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington. It's free, 631-351-3250, heckscher.org....Tags: Long Island, Heckscher Museum of Art, Michael Caine, Alan Alda, Nassau Coliseum
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'Virginia Artists 2008' has more than ever
When the Bay Days Juried Art Exhibition revamped its name and focus in 2007, the 25-year-old summer tradition experienced a welcome resurgence. Redubbed "Virginia Artists," the competition at Hampton's Charles H. Taylor Arts Center more than doubled...Tags: Williamsburg, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Hampton Roads, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia)
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Veggie Fest to descend on Naperville this weekend
Chicago Tribune ReporterThirty miles and an ethos from the site of the Taste of Chicago gorgefest, crews are setting up for a celebration that might be considered odd in a suburb of the city once known as Hog Butcher for the World. It's called Veggie Fest, and it's in...Tags: Heart Disease, Livestock Farming, Carl Lewis, Paul McCartney, Newspaper and Magazine
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Monks' chant album a surprise hit
New York Times News ServiceHEILIGENKREUZ, Austria—As noon draws near, the monks glide into the church, their white cowls billowing behind them. They line up in silence, facing one another in long choir stalls. Wood carvings of saints peer down on them from the austere...Tags: Pope, Christianity, Benedict XVI, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Movies
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Sun-splashed Venice
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPianissimo, pianissimo. That's how morning comes on the Campo Santa Maria Formosa. Pigeons dawdle around a trash can, in no rush to pillage. The young woman who tends the newsstand gives her dog a bowl of water. Then the grate at the Bar all'Orologio...Tags: Machine Manufacturing, Roger Federer, Indiana Jones, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Venice
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