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Chapters: Hayden Planetarium, Rose Center for Earth and Space, Esteban Sarmiento. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH), located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world. Located in park-like grounds, the Museum comprises 25 interconnected buildings that house 46 permanent exhibition halls, research laboratories, and its renowned library. The collections contain over 32 million specimens, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time. The Museum has a scientific staff of more than 200, and sponsors over 100 special field expeditions each year. The Museum's south range, in the 1920'sThe Museum was founded in 1869. Prior to construction of the present complex, the Museum was housed in the older Arsenal building in Central Park. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., the father of the 26th U.S. President, was one of the founders along with John David Wolfe, William T. Blodgett, Robert L. Stuart, Andrew H. Green, Robert Colgate, Morris K. Jesup, Benjamin H. Field, D. Jackson Steward, Richard M. Blatchford, J. Pierpont Morgan, Adrian Iselin, Moses H. Grinnell, Benjamin B. Sherman, A. G. Phelps Dodge, William A. Haines, Charles A. Dana, Joseph H. Choate, Henry G. Stebbins, Henry Parish, and Howard Potter. The founding of the Museum realized the dream of naturalist Dr. Albert S. Bickmore. Bickmore, a one-time student of Harvard zoologist Louis Agassiz, lobbied tirelessly for years for the establishment of a natural history museum in New York. His proposal, backed by his powerful sponsors, won the support of the Governor of New York, John Thompson Hoffman, who signed a bill officially creating the American Museum of N...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=399990 ... Read more

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Title: A BILLION MILES AWAY, AND YET SO CLOSE.(General News)(The Science Factory Planetarium beams up a full-color Saturn show that brings new discoveries into sharp focus)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: January 8, 2006
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Natural History Museums in Wisconsin, Milwaukee Public Museum, Uw-madison Geology Museum, Barlow Planetarium, Thomas A. Greene Memorial Museum, Camp Five Museum, Discovery World, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Dinosaur Discovery Museum, Tommy Bartlett Exploratory. Excerpt: The Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) is a natural and human history museum located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The museum was chartered in 1882 and opened to the public in 1884; it is a not-for-profit organization operated by the Milwaukee Public Museum, Inc. MPM has three floors of exhibits and the first IMAX Theater in Wisconsin. Admission is free to residents of Milwaukee County on Mondays and to Milwaukee County jurors at all times. The current museum president is Daniel Finley. The museum hosts about one million visitors each year. MPM was among a half-a-dozen major American museums that were established in the late nineteenth century. Although it was officially chartered in 1882, its existence reaches back to 1851, to the founding of the German-English Academy in Milwaukee. The Academy's principal, Peter Engelmann encouraged student field trips, many of which collected various specimensorganic, geological and archaeological in naturewhich were kept at the Academy. Later, alumni and others donated various specimens of historical and ethnological interest to the collection. By 1857, interest in the Academy's collection had grown to such an extent that Englemann organized a natural history society to manage and expand the collection. Eventually, the collection, which had come to be informally called "The Museum", grew to exceed the Academy's ability to accommodate it. August Stirn, a city alderman and member of the national history society, obtained legislation ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4369916 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt:Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is one of the oldest and largest planetariums in the United States having welcomed over 7 million visitors by its 60th anniversary in 2009. As a unit of the university, Morehead receives about one-third of its funding through state sources, one-third through ticket and gift sales, and one-third through gifts and grants. First opened in 1949, the planetarium was used to train Gemini and Apollo program astronauts in celestial navigation. Until the late 1990s, it contained one of the largest working Copernican orreries in the world. The facility was donated to the university by alumnus John Motley Morehead III who invested over $3 million in the facility. Morehead Planetarium opened on May 10, 1949 after seventeen months of construction. The first planetarium in the South, it was only the sixth to be built in the United States. Designed by the same architects who planned the Jefferson Memorial, the cost of its construction, more than $23,000,000 in todays dollars, made it the most expensive building ever built in North Carolina at the time. Morehead Planetarium was officially dedicated during a ceremony held on May 10, 1949. The sundial in front of Morehead Planetarium.Since Zeiss, the German firm that produced planetarium projectors, had lost most of its factories during World War II, there were very few projectors available at the time. Morehead had to travel to Sweden, where he had previously served as American ambassador, to purchase a Zeiss Model II to serve as the heart of North Carolinas new planetarium. While Let There Be Light was the Planetarium's first show, it would be followed later in 1949 by ano... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=496494 ... Read more

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Chapters: Butler Bulldogs, Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium, Hoosier Helmet Trophy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Butler University is a private liberal arts university in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It was founded by abolitionist and attorney Ovid Butler in 1855. It serves over 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students in 60 degree programs through five colleges: Business, Education, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and the Jordan College of Fine Arts. Butler's tuition, room and board total $41,500 annually, and over two-thirds of students receive some form of need-based aid. On November 1, 1855, Butler was opened and was originally known as the North Western Christian University. The original location of the school was 13th Street and College Avenue on the near-northside of Indianapolis. In 1875, the university moved to a 25-acre (10 ha) campus in Irvington. It was there that the school was renamed Butler University "in recognition of Ovid Butler's inspirational vision, determined leadership, and financial support." In 1922, Butler purchased Fairview Park, and in 1928, moved its campus to the current Fairview location. The campus consists of 16 major buildings covering an area of 290 acres (120 ha). The University master plan for 2006-2014 calls for the construction of the new Fairbanks (journalism) Building, the new Student (housing) Apartments, the new Health and Recreation Complex (HRC), renovations to the Butler Bowl (football), an addition to the Atherton (student) Union, a renovated business building (Robertson Hall), a renovated concert hall (Lilly Hall), an addition between the Lilly and Clowes Memorial Hall, an addition to the Pharmacy Building, and renovations of Gallahue (science) Hall, the Ho...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=778928 ... Read more

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America's Planetariums and Observatories: A Sampling
Very interesting information. This book gives a great overview of different planetarium facilities as well as some interesting insight into the science of astronomy. There is also some fascinating related material at the end of the book about increasing public interest and participation. ... Read more

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Chapters: Museums in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, Ackland Art Museum, Ayr Mount, Horace Williams House. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is one of the oldest and largest planetariums in the United States having welcomed over 7 million visitors by its 60th anniversary in 2009. As a unit of the university, Morehead receives about one-third of its funding through state sources, one-third through ticket and gift sales, and one-third through gifts and grants. First opened in 1949, the planetarium was used to train Gemini and Apollo program astronauts in celestial navigation. Until the late 1990s, it contained one of the largest working Copernican orreries in the world. The facility was donated to the university by alumnus John Motley Morehead III who invested over $3 million in the facility. Morehead Planetarium opened on May 10, 1949 after seventeen months of construction. The first planetarium in the South, it was only the sixth to be built in the United States. Designed by the same architects who planned the Jefferson Memorial, the cost of its construction, more than $23,000,000 in todays dollars, made it the most expensive building ever built in North Carolina at the time. Morehead Planetarium was officially dedicated during a ceremony held on May 10, 1949. The sundial in front of Morehead Planetarium.Since Zeiss, the German firm that produced planetarium projectors, had lost most of its factories during World War II, there were very few projectors available at the time. Morehead had to travel to Sweden, where he had previously served as American ambassador, to purchase a Zeiss Model II ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=496494 ... Read more

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Chapters: Franklin Street, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Playmakers Theatre, Old Well, Old East, Davie Poplar, Carolina Inn, Silent Sam, Coker Arboretum, William Lanier Hunt Arboretum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Franklin Street is a prominent thoroughfare in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Historic Franklin Street is considered the center of social life for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as the town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and it is home to numerous coffee shops, restaurants, museums, music stores and bars. The street in downtown Chapel Hill is notable for its festivities, nightlife, and culture. The stretch of college-oriented businesses continues west into neighboring Carrboro. Both streets are home to small music venues, like the Cat's Cradle and the Carrboro ArtsCenter, which were influential in the birth of Chapel Hill rock, and Chapel Hill's Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, as well as the Ackland Art Museum. The intersection of Franklin Street and Columbia StreetThe three-mile (5 km) length is divided into West and East Franklin Streets. West Franklin begins at the intersection of South Merrit Mill Road where Carrboro's East Main Street ends. West Franklin moves east-northeast through the town's historic business district to Columbia Street, where it becomes East Franklin. East Franklin continues the straight path through the business district, passing campus and then curving north "down the hill" through some of Chapel Hill's historic neighborhoods. East Franklin Street ends just beyond Ephesus Church Road, where it morphs into U.S. Highway 15-501 towards Durham. Over time, Chapel Hill, as well as Carrbo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9323129 ... Read more

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Chapters: Tynan Abbey, Armagh Planetarium, Shamrock Park, Derrymore House, Armagh Observatory, Craigavon Area Hospital, Armagh Courthouse, Athletic Grounds, Mourneview Park, Lakeview Park. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Tynan AbbeyTynan Abbey, County Armagh, Northern Ireland was the home of the Stronge family until 1981. It was a large neo-gothic-romantic country house built circa 1750 (later renovated circa 1815) and situated outside the village of Tynan. It was bombed in 1981 and its ruin finally demolished in 1998, having stood for 249 years. The original house on this site was called Fairview and was the home of the Manson family, it was acquired by the Stronges through the marriage of Dr. John Stronge and Elinor Manson. At this time Fairview was described by Thomas Ashe as a "very pretty house, well timbered and regularly built. It is two stories high. There are good chambers and garrets above staires, a hansome parlour, a common Hall, a Kitchen Sellars and their Convenient Offices a Good Stable Barne and Cow house a Good Garden and Orchard". The library, in which the last of the Stronges were killed, was believed to have dated to this original house. The building of Tynan Abbey itself (as Fairview would become) took place under the ownership of the Stronges. By 1816 Mrs Calvert, Sir James Stronge, 1st Baronet's mother-in-law, described the house, which was under construction, as "very ugly...I don't think I shall ever like the house...I have a comfortable enough room...all the other rooms are unfinished and even without windows...the staircase without banisters and all about unfinished". By 1822 Mrs Calvert thought Tynan Abbey "very pretty and the place very nice, but somewhat exposed". By 1838 George Petrie of the Ordnance Survey desc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5209139 ... Read more