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Re: Frankfurt: Not Just for Business
I liked your description of the Rubens exhibit that tied together his inspirational objects and sketches. Adds so much more to an art exhibit instead of just hanging a painting with the title. I also fell into the trap of not visiting Frankfurt when I only lived about 20 miles away for about six years. I did really enjoy the Frankfurt Zoo and their Christmas Market.
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, February 26, 2014: The Hope Diamond, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
Ottoman, did you try to pocket that little gem?
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, February 26, 2014: The Hope Diamond, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
DrFumblefinger, if you by chance came across any incriminating headlines, you didn't see anything. Now, thanks to TravelGumbo, I can research a nice quiet getaway...I mean retirement destinaiton for myself (cough cough).
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Re: Germans Reflect on Reunification
I was in Berlin on Saturday, the day of the 25th anniversary of reunification. There were tons of people in the city, as crowded as I've ever seen any major city. The main activities were in the Tiergarten, especially around the Brandenburg gate. By the time we made our way there, the police had closed down the area and were not allowing more people in because it was overcrowded. Still, everyone seemed well behaved and having a nice time. I think most Germans feel reunification was a good...
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Re: Van Gogh comes to Airbnb: $10 a night
Link to the listing: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/10981658?s=9qhtAoOY
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Re: Willis Tower and Our Skydeck Experience—Chicago
I haven't been on this one, but I have gone to a few, including Empire State and the old World Trade Center in NY. I always enjoy the view, but if there's an open observation area, I find myself with small chills and odd feelings in my legs as if I were going to fall...no matter how secure it is! So for me, it's the view plus a thrill ride!
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Re: Willis Tower and Our Skydeck Experience—Chicago
I've been to the Hancock tower in Chicago, but not the Sears tower (I like that name better to). The views sure are spectacular. As for me, I'll admire the view without going into the skybox, thank you very much!
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Re: New Hope for the Jet-Lagged?
Until they develop this expensive therapy, do the basics that work reasonably well for me. Stay hydrated. When you arrive at your destination, don't nap. Slip into the local time frame hard as it might be the first day. If you arrive during the day, go for a nice walk. Helps train your primitive brain that its still day (not night like it's telling you) and the exercise will do you good. Go to be early but try to sleep when the locals do. And don't overuse alcohol because of its tendence to...
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Re: New Hope for the Jet-Lagged?
I always put my watch onto the destination time as soon as I board the plane. Like most other travellers it only affects me when I go West to East - US to Europe !
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Re: New Hope for the Jet-Lagged?
I do the watch bit, too, although if they're serving a meal right away, I eat it on departure time and then switch to arrival time. Getting set mentally really seems to be a big part of it. I think, in fact, that one of the reasons my anti-jetlag routines work well for me is, in fact, because they have become routines, and I am used to how I will feel and react, even if it takes a day to be truly in synch.
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Re: New Hope for the Jet-Lagged?
I always find the worst jet lag is my journey home. Be it from east or west. Strange how we all differ in the functioning of our internal clock.
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Re: New Hope for the Jet-Lagged?
I always am fine coming home. What gets me is those early arrivals when we go to Europe. I have to struggle that first day to stay awake or I never get on track .I like arriving in the afternoon or evening and then I'm ok. As shift workers learn quickly,light and darkness does play a big part in good sleep A lot of factories now try to keep workers from seeing the night to fool the body into thinking it's day
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Smithsonian reopens historic D.C. building
The Smithsonian Institution is reopening its historic 1881 Arts and Industries Building, at least for special events. Not the famous "Smithsonian Castle," but similar in style and almost as old, Arts and Industries closed for renovation in 2004....
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, February 26, 2014: The Hope Diamond, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
Throughout my academic life I have come across the famed Hope Diamond. In elementary school I remember seeing photos of this magnificent gem. In middle school I remember hearing stories of its notorious curse. In high school...
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FIT Museum: The History of Fashion
Jonathan L explores the history of fashion at the Museum at FIT
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New Hope for the Jet-Lagged?
It's a bit far off, but research at the Salk Institute points a possible way to helping travelers overcome jet-lag, and helping shift workers and others overcome sleep disorders. Researchers have identified a gene that apparently controls circadian...
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Record ice melts and temperatures worry Greenland
Danish scientists are worried: Greenland's seasonal ice melt is happening sooner and more is melting, along with record high temperatures.
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Willis Tower and Our Skydeck Experience—Chicago
A visit to Chicago's tallest building, with its spectacular new glass features, with Samantha.
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Switzerland tries new buses with no drivers
If Google's self-driving cars seem a bit futuristic (even if one got pulled over by a cop for going too slow), consider this: starting next spring, Switzerland will actually put passengers on driverless buses for a two-year test. The buses will...
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Van Gogh comes to Airbnb: $10 a night
Van Gogh's bedroom in Arles, which he painted at least three times, has been reproduced as an Airbnb apartment by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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21 Best Museums in America
Kennedy Space Center - Orlando Kennedy Space Center Orlando Kennedy Space Center Orlando (KSC) also known as the NASA Launch Operations Center. The KSC has been the primary launch center for NASA since 1968. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex open everyday at 9 am. Kennedy Space Center Tickets started from USD 57 Museum Of Modern Art - MoMA Museum-of-Modern-Art-NYC MoMA is art museum in New York City. It contains world's greatest collection of modern and contemporary art, almost 200,000...
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Frankfurt: Not Just for Business
Frankfurt has a reputation as Europe's business capital, but Jonathan L shows us how much more it is than just that!
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The Clark Art Institute - Willaimstown MA
Jonathan L takes us to a smaller art museum with an unusually strong collection and an important new exhibition.
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Re: Record ice melts and temperatures worry Greenland
How it's changed in a thousand years - since the first Vikings settled there. They wrote letters back to Denmark calling it a "Green Land" with pastures and crops and cows. And as the Ice melts at the North Pole - the South Pole records ice levels as being "Higher than ever recorded". Such is Mother Nature. Always changing her mind.
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Smithsonian Castle, Washington, DC
Jonathan L visits the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC
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Bouquinistes and The Arab World Institute
Jonathan L takes a last walk along the Seine, and visits the Arab World Institute
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Simone Leigh at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
Jonathan L visits the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC to catch up on some contemporary art
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Re: Simone Leigh at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
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Re: Simone Leigh at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
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