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DuPage Children’s Museum to Reopen on September 19, 2015
From Lemons to Lemonade: We’re coming back better than ever!
(Naperville, IL) Back in January, DuPage Children’s Museum (DCM) experienced the “Great Flood,” which damaged all three floors, causing the Museum to temporarily close. That was the bad news. But now it is time for the long-awaited good news... DuPage Children’s Museum will officially reopen its doors to the public on Saturday, September 19, 2015.
Read MoreEvidence unearthed in the lowlands of Guatemala suggests that hunter-gatherers and the ancient Maya culture's less mobile settlers worked together during a transitional period that lasted for hundreds of years. The findings, published online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, challenge the view that mobile and sedentary cultures lived apart, and that public monuments are built only after a culture settles down.
"Our study presents the first relatively concrete evidence that mobile and sedentary people came together to build a ceremonial center," University of Arizona archaeologist Takeshi Inomata said in a news release.
Read MoreThe Rev. Emily Gage chose not to take what happened shortly after she started at Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple as an omen. “Right after I began, in the fall of '08, a giant piece of ceiling fell down right above the pulpit,” she said.
This compromise of the building's integrity did not happen during a Sunday service. No one was hurt. And life with Unity Temple, Wright's modernist masterpiece in Oak Park and a mixed blessing of a structure if ever there were one, went on.
Read MoreThe National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is launching a national multilingual campaign to promote acceptance of LGBT individuals in Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.
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