Re: Information Please!!

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From: Joe Wagner
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:40

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Nelson.F..Steele@p807.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Nelson F. Steele) writes:

>  M1> Nelson.F..Steele@p807.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Nelson F. Steele)
>  M1> writes:

>  > evenings. I've been meaning to get back to the National Geographic
>   > 
>  M1> Do you mean the Natural History Museum?  I was there about a month
> 
>National Geographic has a building, I believe called "Explorer's Hall," a couple
>blocks north of the Natural-History-end of the mall (the location is rather
>vague in my memory).  It's been a few years since I visited, but it was fun.

I was there this past weekend and once again it was fairly interesting.  They
are currently having a photo exhibit of A) award winning photos and B) some show
on military cemetaries/monuments.  I apologize that I just walked around and
looked at the photos, so I don't recall specifically why they were there but 
there were a lot of humorus and moving pics of events and people around DC.

They also have a hand's-on half of the lobby which has various interactive touch
screen monitors such as a excellent animation of contenental drift (the 
contenant Pangea(?), etc) with smooth movements of the contenents according to
how you drag your finger upa dn down the time line.  They had a Tornado 
booth which you could reach your hand into to disrupt a mist defined vortex.

The gift shop has all the neat junk you'd expect, in the way of books, posters
and maps, including a new modern world map with all those pesky Soviet and
Yugoslavian countries.

                                                                   Joe

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Joe Wagner   (202) 366-4729                    (Alternate: joew@ncar.ucar.edu)
c/o DOT/NHTSA, NRD-11                          "Buckle up or you Die -- opps
400 7th St. SW,  Wash. DC  20590                I mean: Buckle up for Safety"

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