Smithsonian Scrapbook 2

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• On: 07/08/2006 08:25:24
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Paleontology Exhibit - Kristen and Josh Campbell along with Sarah and Parker Andrews dig for dinosaur bones with Earle Wiebe, science education administrator at the Royal Tyrrell Museum.

Research in Alberta Exhibit (University of Alberta) - AIBO robotic dogs are used to demonstrate the practial applications of technological innovations in areas related to sensors, locomotion, vision, localization, behaviour-based control and multi-robot communication and coordination.

Ice Sports Exhibit - Smithsonian hockey jersey on display.

Musem of Natural History - The 42.52 carat Hope Diamond, the world's largest deep blue diamond, is more than a billion years old.  Since the Hope Diamond was found in the early 1600s, it has crossed oceans and continents and passed from kings to commoners. It has been stolen and recovered, sold and resold, cut and recut.

A Painted Pakistani Truck:  The Silk Road comes to the Mall (from the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival).  Once roads in Pakistan and Afghanistan were full of brightly decorated wagons, ox carts, and other vehicles; today these decorative arts have been applied to elaborately painted trucks. In the past 50 years the decorative styles have increased dramatically, with each region of Pakistan developing its own distinctive motifs and decorations, such as landscapes, important monuments, and pithy sayings and poems.

Kirsten catches a ride on dad Kevin's shoulders.

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