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This blog provides an informal introduction to Genghis Khan, the subject of a new temporary exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Unless you’re Mongolian, the name “Genghis Khan” may conjure thoughts of a maniacal barbarian, killer, or "destroyer of civilizations...
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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 requires a mash-up of world history and a leap across...
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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 Joshua.’ I am in the News Paper game. I was...
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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 be a wonderful place for those of us interested in...
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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 to herald the New Year. Ford Motor Company produced...
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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 Pack-Up, Chicago experienced an incredible downpour...
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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 – 10,200 feet high and 100 miles southwest...
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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 day would be like inside the hall. I was so excited...
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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 which have shown recent signs of life: one which...
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Greetings people of Earth (and a hearty welcome to those from elsewhere...). Since everybody and their uncle now has a blog, why shouldn't I have one? And just in case anybody should actually want to *read* a blog, as opposed to writing their own, I will attempt to make this one interesting and fun...