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Ripley's to mark World Sword Swallowers Day
Several Ripley Entertainment attractions, including the Odditorium on Orlando's International Drive, will mark World Sword Swallowers Day with activities on Feb. 23. More than 20 sword swallowers will put on free shows. In Orlando, Chris Steele will be...
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Magic bus: GM's Futurliner
![When the lights were switched on at the Chicago World's Fair on May 27, 1933, the city was celebrating "A Century of Progress." By the time the last visitor left the park two years later, 48 million people had marveled at the displays, including General Motors' technical tours de force: How Sound Stops Sound, The Magnetic Stove, a Photo Elastic Stress Study and Music on a Light Beam.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-05/61588883-13151509.jpg "When the lights were switched on at the Chicago World's Fair on May 27, 1933, the city was celebrating "A Century of Progress.\" By the time the last visitor left the park two years later, 48 million people had marveled at the displays, including General Motors' technical tours de force: How Sound Stops Sound, The Magnetic Stove, a Photo Elastic Stress Study and Music on a Light Beam.")
When the lights were switched on at the Chicago World's Fair on May 27, 1933, the city was celebrating "A Century of Progress." By the time the last visitor left the park two years later, 48 million people had marveled at the displays, including General...Tags: Reggie Jackson, Auction Service, Manufacturing and Engineering, Vehicles, Automotive Equipment
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A brief history of PBR's real blue ribbon
For RedEyePabst Blue Ribbon is most associated with its birthplace in Milwaukee, but it’s the city of Chicago where the beer made its name—literally. Not to be confused with the television channel that airs "Sesame Street," PBR was originally known as...Tags: World War I (1914-1918), PBS (tv network)
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Chicago Ridge's homespun values lure homebuyers
Shaped like a string of boxcars that tumbled off the CSX rail line, Chicago Ridge is a working-class southwestern suburb known for the regional mall that attracts shoppers like a magnet.
Thanks to its abundance of modest multifamily housing, Chicago...Tags: Santa Claus (fictional character), Chicago White Sox, Keanu Reeves, Sears, Entertainment
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The Millennium Park effect
Tribune architecture criticNEW CATCH PHRASE was in the air after Frank Gehry's shimmering Guggenheim Museum made its spectacular debut eight years ago in the tattered shipbuilding city of Bilbao, Spain: "the Bilbao effect." The term, which sounded like weather forecasting jargon,...Tags: Weather Reports, Transportation, Cloud Gate, Tourism and Leisure, Arts and Culture
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Dunes Country choo-choo
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — To the uninitiated, driving along 11th Street through the downtown of this northern Indiana community can be an unnerving experience. While most motorists are accustomed to sharing the road with bicycles, few have ever had the...
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Worshiping at the auto shrine
Times Staff WriterIn L.A., not all the stars are on the big screen, or bumping around Montana Avenue boutiques. Some of our finest performers are in the museums and private collections put together by Southern California's biggest car enthusiasts. Whether you're interested...Tags: FX (tv channel), Car Engine Repair, Auto Racing, Companies and Corporations, Concours d'Elegance
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'Weasel' of nursery rhyme referred to yarn winder
What's a weasel? It's an animal, of course, but in some parts of Montana you might put weasels on your ice cream - because some Montanans used to call M&Ms "weasels." And in the 1700s, when the nursery rhyme "Pop Goes the Weasel" was composed,...Tags: New York, Iowa, Germany, Toy Industry, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Old School frozen custard
Q13 FOX News OnlineOld School has been proudly serving up delicious frozen custard in the Puget Sound area since 2007. It is a smoother, creamier, and more flavorful than any super premium ice cream. And it contains fewer calories, too! At Old School frozen custard...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Ice Cream, Lifestyle and Leisure, Coney Island
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City Beautiful, City Park and the museum
By Rebecca Massie Lane Special to The Herald-Mail When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' that is all ...Tags: New York City, Fine Arts, John Keats, Washington, DC, Arts
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Book review: 'The Last Greatest Magician in the World' by Jim Steinmeyer
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Last Greatest Magician in the World Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards Jim Steinmeyer Tarcher/Penguin: 377 pp., $26.95 It takes some courage to write the biography of a man the reading public has mostly forgotten....Tags: Corporate Crime, Biography (genre), Natural Resources, Book, Forests
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New in paper: Stefan Zweig rediscovered
"Lost Paradise" by Cees Nooteboom (Grove) Nooteboom's latest novel has two protagonists. One, a young and wealthy Brazilian woman, travels to Australia, hoping to recover her life after she has been raped and left for dead in a Sao Paolo favela. There...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Sean Penn, Forestry and Timber, Book, Italo Calvino
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