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A Major Natural History Museum in Kansas
University of Kansas Natural History Museum When we were in Laurence, Kansas at the KU Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum, ranked No. 1 among public programs, we were impressed by...
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Top of The Rock: Giant Animals of America
TOP OF THE ROCK A lion four feet high at the shoulder, a short faced bear weighting 2,250 pounds and a Hell Pig as big as a rhino, how in the world did the Native Americans who faced them 13,000...
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Ancient Ozarks Natural History Museum
TOP OF THE ROCK--NATIVE AMERICANSA statue at the entrance of the Ancient Ozarks Natural History Museum in Branson, Missouri At the Ancient Ozarks Natural History Museum at the Top of the Rock in...
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U-Boat 505 and the Enigma Coding Machine
Capturing the U-505 German Submarine in World War II It turned out to be a real adventure when we visited the Museum of Science+Industry in Chicago to explore the capture of the U-505 German...
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World's Largest Toy Museum
WORLD'S LARGEST TOY MUSEUMThe World's Largest Toy Museum is in Branson, Missouri When in Branson, MO, last fall I visited The World's Largest Toy Museum with over a million items from the19th...
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Museum of World Treasures
MUSEUM OF WORLD TREASURES How did one man manage to collect so many artifacts in one lifetime? We were at the Museum of World Treasures in Wichita, Kansas, surrounded by items from all over the...
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HEROES OR CORPSES: TRUMAN IN WORLD WAR ICaptain Harry S. Truman in World War I As his troop ship sailed for Europe in World War I on March 30, 1918, future president Harry S. Truman...
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Mukseum of Transportation: St. Louis
THE MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION: ST. LOUIS In the last 150 years we have made unbelievable gains in how we move ourselves and our stuff around. These advances in transportation are on display at the...
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German V1 and V2 rockets
GERMAN V2 BOMB HISTORIC SITES I recently gave a talk based on the book, Beyond the Beach: The Allied War Against France, written by my son-in-law Stephen Bourque. The war with Germany was a...
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German U-boat menace of World War 2
THE GERMAN U-BOAT MENACE OF WORLD WAR II In World War II the German's conquered France in 1940 and turned it into a major support system for its war against the Allies. On a trip to France...
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Nelson-Atkins Art Museum
HIGHLIGHT TOUR OF THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City is at of the top of U.S, art museums according the U.S. Today, based on the Yelp.com list of...
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Parthenon
SEEING THE PARTHENON IN A DIFFERENT WAYA reproduction of the Parthenon in Nashville, TNWorld wonders like the Pompeii in Italy and the Parthenon in Greece make many people's bucket lists of what to...
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Grand Caverns of the Shenandoah Valley
GRAND CAVERNS OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEYInside the Grand Caverns After examining eight brochures advertising caves in the Shenandoah Valley, I chose to tour the oldest show cave, the Grand Caverns,...
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National Frontier Trails Museum, Independence, MO
NATIONAL FRONTIER TRAILS MUSEUMA large covered wagon stands ready to be loaded at the National Frontier Trails Museum in Independence, Missouri “Go West, young man,” a phrase popularly...
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KANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM
WHICHITA KANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM When visiting the Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita, I worked my way up the narrow curving steps to the control tower, at 1500 feet one of the highest points in the...
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Florida Museum of Natural History
FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY What an amazing step-back-in-time we had at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville! For over 100 years...
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Missouri Town 1855, Living History
MISSOURI TOWN 1855 When touring Missouri Town 1855 near Blue Springs, I enjoyed learning what everyday life was like in western Missouri then. The first stop was the kitchen at the large...
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COSMOSPHERE INTERNATIONAL SPACE MUSEUM
COSMOSPHERE INTERNATIONAL SPACE MUSEUM At the Cosmosphere International Space Museum in Hutchison, Kansas, my wife Carla and I continued to be amazed that a town of only 42,000 people had been...
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HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT
GLORE PSYCHIATRIC MUSEUM My first psychiatric hospital experience was as an intern at Nebraska Psychiatric Institute in 1954. This was before drugs were used to control psychiatric symptoms of...
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JURASSIC WORLD: THE EXHIBITION, FIELD MUSEUM
JURASSIC WORLD: THE EXHIBITION The Jurassic World: The Exhibition, until January 2018, at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, is an unusual traveling exhibit based on the movie...
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BUCKET LISTS
BUCKET LISTS: A LIST OF THINGS YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO BEFORE DYING A list of activities someone wants to do before he or she dies is often called a bucket list, because it is a list of things...
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Taking a Gap Year
REASONS TO TAKE A GAP YEAR BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE Malia Obama who had been accepted at Harvard took a Gap Year to gain further life experiences before she started her classes. Her 12...
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GHOST TOURS I like ghost tours and have taken many of them. Since most are at night it is a special way to see a city or district, something about shadows lends a magic to area and makes...
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GROSSED OUT: THREE SHOCKING TRAVEL EXPERIENCES
GROSSED OUT: THREE SHOCKING TRAVEL EXPERIENCES Some travel attractions can be shocking or unpleasant, but still worth seeing. Three that I have seen that come to mind are: Body World,...
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PEAK TRAVEL EXPERIENCES Most of us when we travel look for adventure, but not too much. We want excitement, but not to the point of terror. We are often willing to go some distance and pay...
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