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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Among other things I learned during a recent trip to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History was that the elephant in the main lobby had a name. He’s Henry!
While the origin of the name is unknown, the details of Henry were published in June 6, 1956 Sports Illustrated – The Biggest [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is only one week left of the National Building Museum’s LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition exhibit. We went the previous weekend.
While the models of the Empire State Building, Sears Tower (what you talking about Willis?), Burj Khalifa and other landmarks are well done, they have a flaw — too many custom pieces. [...]

Pennsylvania’s dialects are as varied as its downtowns — and dahntahns – Patriot-News
The bottom line is few kitchen tables can be as linguistically cluttered as a Pennsylvania table when the family comes to town.
Based solely upon pronunciation and grammar, researchers generally split the United States into a number of linguistic regions. Those regions come together [...]

BOSTON — I was not that familiar with Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey, but I was informed by the Ombudman’s attorney that it “the” Boston children’s book. Since I have a son, I decided to get it, though I wound up buying it outside of Boston in the Curious George bookstore which is [...]

The Calvin and Hobbes Snow Art Gallery (hosted by Anglefire, wow that still exists!) is just the thing needed for a day like today.
Hopefully, people are going to use this as an inspiration after all of this snow.
H/T Eric McErlain on Facebook
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Bill Watterson, creator of beloved ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ comic strip looks back with no regret – Plain-Dealer (Cleveland)There isn’t much insight from the creator of “Calvin & Hobbes” in the Q&A, but I’m posting it anyway. I haven’t read the comics regularly since “Calvin & Hobbes” and “The Far Side” went away. Let me know [...]

Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger – The Onion
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Up until yesterday’s Q&A with We Love DC, I was unaware of 1,001 Rules for My Unborn Son. Written by D.C. resident Walker Lamond, the blog presents rules for a male to grow up and live by with a late 1950s/early 1960s white collar urban sensibility of masculinity and style. There is a lot to [...]

COMM Blog, the official blog of the College of Communications at Penn State (my alma mater), informed me that my former ethics professor Russell Frank will a panelist at Baseball Americana on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. at teh Library of Congress
Panel One: At HomeEven those of us who love a day out at the [...]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — I was not happy that “The Awakening” was moved from Hains Point, Washington D.C. to this new resort in Prince George’s County. I don’t blame the developer for buying of course, it was a shrewd move to catch the Park Service napping. I do fault the developer for the new placement [...]