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What do Genghis Khan and The Godfather’s Don Corleone have in Common?
This blog provides an informal introduction to Genghis Khan, the subject of a new temporary exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science If you’re skeptical of the similarities between Genghis Khan and Don Vito Corleone, bear with me. It...
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Genghis—World’s Greatest “Khan”queror
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Marc Levine
on 10-22-2009
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Miss Winters... The Delights of Conversation
How I love conversing with visitors in the diorama halls! And the dioramas themselves are a delightful improvement to how the halls looked in 1908. Why, when I first visited the museum then , the halls were lined with glass cases and shelves of mounted...
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WildLife and Times
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Miss Margaret Winters
on 07-31-2009
Where were you when Apollo 11 landed on the moon?
In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy had a challenge for NASA – and the nation. The challenge was to land a man on the moon before the end of the decade. The race to meet his goal would require the greatest technological achievements the world...
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Dig It
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Tara
on 06-29-2009
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Mr A. J. Rappaport... For Posterity
First of all, allow me to introduce myself. My name is A.J. Rappaport. Now, how I came to have that name is a story in its self. You see my Daddy’s name is Joshua, and his Daddy’s name is Joshua, so, they called me A.J. - just ‘another...
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Mr. A. J. Rappaport
on 06-22-2009
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Miss Florence Epp......explorer, storyteller
Habari ! Miss Florence Epp is my name, and though just 28 and a woman, I have seen much of the world on the soles of my worn out boots (which currently do need new laces). My father was a great doctor of the 1890’s, you see, and his gifts and talents...
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Miss Florence Epp
on 06-02-2009
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Miss Margaret Winters... an Introduction
My name is Margaret Winters, and I recall how thrilled we all were that the Museum of Natural History would be opening that summer of 1908. The Women’s Club of Denver had a Department of Literature and Science and we felt that this museum would...
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WildLife and Times
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Miss Margaret Winters
on 05-05-2009
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WildLife and Times: The World of 1908 Returns to the Museum with Historical Enactors
How times have changed! When the Museum first opened its doors to the public in 1908, William Taft was elected president, the world’s first major commercial oil field was discovered in Iran, and for the first time ever the ball dropped in Time Square...
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WildLife and Times
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Jennifer Moss Logan
on 05-05-2009
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Double-Whammy – Living Through a Chicago Flood and an English Storm in 1987
In 1987 we began the process of moving from Chicago to England. First step: pack our furniture and everything we owned into shipping containers, and send it by boat across the Atlantic to the Old World. However, just as we were preparing for The Great...
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Jennifer Moss Logan
on 04-13-2009
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Diorama leprechauns
Larry Sessions asked about the elves or leprechauns in the dioramas. Always a popular subject. Attached is a file that will tell you how to find them.
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Archives are History
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Kristine Haglund
on 04-03-2009
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Always learning something new
The past is past, as they say, but it’s never dead. The Archives is constantly acquiring, learning, and preserving new pieces of information about the way things used to be here at the Museum. Sometimes we go looking for things and sometimes they...
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Archives are History
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Kristine Haglund
on 04-01-2009
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Uncertainty, Doubt and Mt. Redoubt – No Doubt Now – Thar She Blows!
3/24/09 After months of warning signs, including seismic signals , heat pulses, gas releases, and melting glacial ice, which led to several upgrades and downgrades in alert status from the Alaska Volcano Observatory , Alaska’s Mount Redoubt Volcano...
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David Grinspoon's Planet Waves
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David Grinspoon
on 03-24-2009
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This Volcano Loves You
3/19/09 The two-faced Greek god Janus is often invoked to symbolize the dualistic nature of things. Volcanoes, Janus-like, are fearsome destroyers of cities, but also bring renewal, fertility and life. Volcanoes are unpredictable. Sometimes they are only...
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David Grinspoon's Planet Waves
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David Grinspoon
on 03-19-2009
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Testing, testing, testing
It's been an exciting week for Expedition Health . We officially started testing all the cool interactive exhibit components. Today was a staff/volunteer walk-through where we got to try everything out and simulate for the research team what a real...
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Tara
on 03-13-2009
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Taking Responsibility for Acts of God
2/11/09 The term “acts of god” is used, in legal documents and insurance policies, to describe natural events where responsibility for damage or destruction cannot be assigned to any person or institution. But, avoiding any theological discussions...
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David Grinspoon's Planet Waves
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David Grinspoon
on 02-11-2009
A Tale of Three Volcanoes
2/2/09 We exist on a thin crust of solid rock which overlies the churning cauldron of Earth's interior. When molten rock extrudes onto the surface, we call it a volcano, and these can take a huge variety of forms. Today I will focus on three volcanoes...
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David Grinspoon's Planet Waves
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David Grinspoon
on 02-02-2009
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