Wharton Esherick - Museum

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2dzKzA1g131GnvOv0Mrdk5a2jmlKt5xg4alxN8SWEbp2QDp2iiR1CHkG1IF7jl1Q3rj4H3Gpe1m7Del9H5J-GmWT3jsJN7A4M_mXgQodCk9t-jUUkZl4isFh4o4zoMsd05ko8AUffo40/s1600/300px-Wharton_Esherick%2527s_woodblock_print_for_Song_of_the_Broad-Axe_by_Walt_Whitman._1924-781513.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6152623900840646642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2dzKzA1g131GnvOv0Mrdk5a2jmlKt5xg4alxN8SWEbp2QDp2iiR1CHkG1IF7jl1Q3rj4H3Gpe1m7Del9H5J-GmWT3jsJN7A4M_mXgQodCk9t-jUUkZl4isFh4o4zoMsd05ko8AUffo40/s320/300px-Wharton_Esherick%2527s_woodblock_print_for_Song_of_the_Broad-Axe_by_Walt_Whitman._1924-781513.jpg" /></a></p><p><b>Wharton Esherick</b> (July 15, 1887 â€" May 6, 1970) was a sculptor who worked primarily in wood, especially applying the principles of sculpture to common utilitarian objects. Consequently, he is best known for his sculptural furniture and furnishings. Esherick was recognized in his lifetime by his peers as the “dean of American craftsmen” for his leadership in developing non-traditional designs, and encouraging and inspiring artists/craftspeople by example. Esherick’s influence continues to be seen in the work of current artisans, particularly in the Studio Craft Movement.</p> <p>Born in Philadelphia, Esherick studied painting at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts (now the University of the Arts (Philadelphia)) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1913 he moved to a farmhouse near Paoli, Pennsylvania to pursue his painting career. He began carving decorative frames for his paintings in 1920, which led to making woodcut prints and finally to sculpture.</p> <p>Esherick’s early furniture was derived from the Arts and Crafts style, and decorated with surface carving. In the late 1920s, he abandoned carving on his furniture, focusing instead on the pure form of the pieces as sculpture. In the 1930s, he was producing sculpture and furniture influenced by the organicism of Rudolf Steiner, as well as by German Expressionism and Cubism. The angular and prismatic forms of the latter two movements gave way to the free-form curvilinear shapes for which he is best known.</p> <p>From furniture and furnishings, he progressed to interiors, the most famous being the Curtis Bok House (1935â€"37). Though the house was demolished, Esherick’s work was saved. The fireplace and adjacent music room doors can be seen in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the foyer stairs can be seen in the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami, Florida.</p> <p>In 1940, George Howe (architect) used Esherick’s Spiral Stair (1930) and Esherick furniture to create the “Pennsylvania Hill House” exhibit in the New York World’s Fair “America at Home” Pavilion. Esherick’s work was also featured in a 1958 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Craft and in the 1972 “Woodenworks” exhibition at the Renwick Gallery. He exhibited hundreds of times during his life and his work is now in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Whitney Museum in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and many other museums. Most of his work remains in private hands.</p> <p>His home and studio, outside of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, were his largest piece of art. The buildings evolved over forty years as Esherick lived and worked there. He continued working on the studio until his death in 1970. In 1972 the studio was converted into the Wharton Esherick Museum. The property, known as Wharton Esherick Studio, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.</p> <p>Esherick was the father of Ruth Bascom (wife of architect Mansfield Bascom, curator emeritus of the Wharton Esherick Museum) and uncle of American architect Joseph Esherick.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><img alt="The Wharton Esherick Museum - Wharton Esherick (1887-1970) was a sculptor who worked primarily in wood, readily extending his unique forms to furniture, furnishings, utensils, interiors, ..." src="http://www.whartonesherickmuseum.org/images/index%20images/welcome_rt1.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Wharton Esherick - The Wharton Esherick Museum"><br> <ul><li>Esherick House, with a kitchen designed by Wharton Esherick</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img alt="Wharton Esherick Master Home Page - The life and work of wood craftsman Wharton Esherick, including a complete photo tour of his museum in Paoli, Pennsylvania, USA." src="http://www.levins.com/e-6.gif" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Wharton Esherick - Wharton Esherick Master Home Page"><br> <ul><li>Bascom, Mansfield, <i>Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind</i>, New York, Abrams, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8109-9575-8.</li> <li>Clark, Emily, <i>Stuffed Peacocks, by Emily Clark; Woodcuts by Wharton Esherick</i>, New York, London, A. A. Knopf, 1927.</li> <li>Eisenhauer, Paul, ed., <i>Wharton Esherick's Illuminated and Illustrated Song of the Broad-Axe By Walt Whitman</i>, Atglen, Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing LTD., 2011.</li> <li>Eisenhauer, Paul, and Lynne Farrington, eds., <i>Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern</i>, Atglen, Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing LTD., 2010.</li> <li>Esherick, Wharton and Gene Rochberg, <i>Drawings by Wharton Esherick</i>, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978.</li> <li>Renwick Gallery, <i>Woodenworks; Furniture Objects by Five Contemporary Craftsmen: George Nakashima, Sam Maloof, Wharton Esherick, Arthur Espenet Carpenter, Wendell Castle</i>, St. Paul, Minnesota Museum of Art, 1972</li> <li>Silverman, Sharon Hernes, "A Passion for Wood", Pennsylvania Heritage, Vol. XXIII, no. 4, 1997</li> <li>Wharton Esherick Museum, <i>The Wharton Esherick Museum, Studio and Collection</i>, Paoli, Pennsylvania, Wharton Esherick Museum, 1977.</li> <li>Wharton Esherick Museum, <i>The Wharton Esherick Museum, Studio and Collection</i>, 3rd edition, Atglen, Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing LTD., 2010.</li> </ul><h3><span id="Notes">Notes</span></h3> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img alt="Wharton Esherick - Wharton Esherick has been called the link between the Arts and Crafts Movement and the resurgent interest in furniture making following World War II, the dean ..." src="http://www.whartonesherickmuseum.org/images/artist01.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Wharton Esherick - Wharton Esherick"><br> <ul><li>Wharton Esherick Museum</li> </ul></h2><br><img alt="Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind: Mansfield ... - Wharton Esherick (1887â€" title="Wharton Esherick - Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind: Mansfield ..."><br>

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<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihc6pEenczVRDjNM85VrpSZAl05jvgCnS39Fl14qFrOIxg4jpEerLCdCDsot5mN04AFccVFl9r1gP7i222rZjTObpU3_B-L_AcZTanXYg4rpS0OOUIy77mb0EgFJeXIlhty8jQ_-zY54M/s1600/avengers_2015_logo-722528.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6152617201387773650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihc6pEenczVRDjNM85VrpSZAl05jvgCnS39Fl14qFrOIxg4jpEerLCdCDsot5mN04AFccVFl9r1gP7i222rZjTObpU3_B-L_AcZTanXYg4rpS0OOUIy77mb0EgFJeXIlhty8jQ_-zY54M/s320/avengers_2015_logo-722528.png" /></a></p><p><b>Dr Pepper</b> is a carbonated soft drink marketed as having a unique flavor. The drink was created in the 1880s by Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas and first served around 1885. Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904, and is now also sold in Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand (as an imported drink), South Africa (also as an imported drink), and South America. Variants include a version without high fructose corn syrup, Diet Dr Pepper, as well as a line of additional flavors, first introduced in the 2000s.</p> <p>W.W. Clements, former CEO and president of the Dr Pepper/7-Up Company, described the taste of Dr Pepper as one-of-a-kind, saying,</p> <blockquote> <p>"I've always maintained you cannot tell anyone what Dr Pepper tastes like because it's so different. It's not an apple, it's not an orange, it's not a strawberry, it's not a root beer, it's not even a cola. It's a different kind of drink with a unique taste all its own."</p> </blockquote> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img alt="Dr Pepper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Dr Pepper is a carbonated soft drink marketed as having a unique flavor. The drink was created in the 1880s by Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas and first served ..." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/19/Dr_Pepper_modern.svg/225px-Dr_Pepper_modern.svg.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Dr Pepper - Dr Pepper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"><br> <p>The U.S. Patent Office recognizes December 1, 1885, as the first time Dr Pepper was served. It was introduced nationally in the United States at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition as a new kind of soda pop, made with 23 flavors. Its introduction in 1885 preceded the introduction of Coca-Cola by one year.</p> <p>It was formulated by Brooklyn-born pharmacist Charles Alderton in Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, Texas. To test his new drink, he first offered it to store owner Wade Morrison, who also found it to his liking. Patrons at Morrison's soda fountain soon learned of Alderton's new drink and began ordering a "Waco". Alderton gave the formula to Morrison, who named it Dr Pepper.</p> <h3><span id="Name">Name</span></h3> <p>Theories abound about the origins of the soft drink's name. One conjecture is the "pep" refers to pepsin. In 2009, an old ledger book filled with formulas and recipes was discovered by Bill Waters while shopping at an antiques stores in the Texas Panhandle. Several sheets and letterheads hinted it had come from the W.B. Morrison & Co. Old Corner Drug Store (the same store where Dr Pepper was first served in 1885) and faded letters on the book's cover spelled out "Castles Formulas". John Castles was a partner of Morrison's for a time and worked at that location as early as 1880. One recipe in the book titled "D Peppers Pepsin Bitters" was of particular interest, and some speculated it could be an early recipe for Dr Pepper. However, Dr Pepper Snapple Group insists it is not the formula for Dr Pepper, but is instead a medicinal recipe for a digestive aid. The book was put up for auction in May 2009, but no one purchased it.</p> <p>Like many early sodas, the drink was marketed as a brain tonic and energizing pick-me-up, so another theory holds that it was named for the pep it supposedly gave to users.</p> <p>Others believe the drink was named after a real Dr. Pepper. One candidate is Dr. Charles T. Pepper of Rural Retreat, Virginia, who may have been so honored by Morrison either for having granted him permission to marry Dr. Pepper's daughter, or in gratitude to Pepper for having given Morrison his first job. However, Morrison lived nearly 50 miles from Rural Retreat, and Pepper's daughter was only eight years old at the time Morrison moved to Waco.</p> <p>Another possibility is Dr. Pepper of Christiansburg, Virginia. U.S. Census records show a young Morrison working as a pharmacy clerk in Christiansburg. One of the following pages of this census supposedly shows a Dr Pepper and daughter Malinda or Malissa, age 16. Since census takers of the period were walking door to door, and their census entries were on following pages, it seems likely that Morrison and the family of Dr. Pepper did not live very far from each other.</p> <h4><span id="Name_formatting">Name formatting</span></h4> <p>The period (full stop) after "<b>Dr</b>" was discarded for stylistic and legibility reasons in the 1950s. Dr Pepper's logo was redesigned and the text in this new logo was slanted. The period made "Dr." look like "Di:". After having been used intermittently in previous logos, followed by some debate, the period was removed permanently.</p> <h3><span id="Legal_and_trade_history">Legal and trade history</span></h3> <p>In 1951, Dr Pepper sued the Coca-Cola company for US$750,000, asserting that nickel Coca-Colas were sold below cost and were a restraint of trade.</p> <p>In 1972, Dr Pepper sued the Coca-Cola company for trademark infringement based on a soft drink marketed by Coca-Cola called "Peppo". They tried naming it Dr. Pibb, which was also determined to violate the trademark. The soft drink was later renamed Mr Pibb.</p> <p>Dr Pepper became insolvent in the early 1980s, prompting an investment group to take the company private. Several years later, Coca-Cola attempted to acquire Dr Pepper, but was blocked from doing so by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Around the same time, Seven Up was acquired from Phillip Morris by the same investment company that bailed out Dr Pepper. Upon the failure of the Coca-Cola merger, Dr Pepper and Seven Up merged (creating Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc., or DPSU), giving up international branding rights in the process. After the DPSU merger, Coca-Cola obtained most non-US rights to the Dr Pepper name (with PepsiCo taking the Seven Up rights).</p> <p>Dr Pepper was a frequent player in the 1990s antitrust history of the United States. As part of these activities, economists and the courts have weighed in with the opinion that Dr Pepper is a "pepper" flavored drink and not a "cola". In 1995, the FTC blocked a merger between The Coca-Cola Company and Dr Pepper on grounds that included concerns about a monopoly of the "pepper" flavor category of soft drinks. In 1996, Dr Pepper was involved in an antitrust case involving Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys, NFL Properties, Nike, and other commercial interests active at Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas. Jones had made deals with Dr Pepper and the other companies that, the league said, violated their exclusive marketing contracts with Coca-Cola and other businesses. The NFL agreed to allow Jones and other teams to pursue their own agreements.</p> <p>In 1998, the "pepper" flavor soda category was a major part of the analysis supporting an antitrust case between Coca-Cola and Pepsi.</p> <h2><span id="Varieties">Varieties</span></h2><br><img alt="Dr Pepper | Facebook - Dr Pepper. 14850933 likes · 23912 talking about this. Always One of a Kind." src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-1/262385_10151047282923870_1790912670_n.jpg?oh=bd1564c69111ab6cd6d05a9bb68ed71a&oe=55FECD6D&__gda__=1442490201_e1b3f85afbd93712ba49d5ec11e202d1" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Dr Pepper - Dr Pepper | Facebook"><br> <h3><span id="Dietary_brands">Dietary brands</span></h3> <ul><li><b>Dietetic Dr Pepper</b> was introduced in 1962 (cans) and 1963 (bottles). Sales were slow partly due to the public misconception that the drink was for diabetics, and in 1966, the company renamed the product Sugar Free Dr Pepper. The name was changed to Diet Dr Pepper in 1987. In 1991, Diet Dr Pepper was reformulated to use aspartame, according to Cadbury Schweppes. Diet Dr Pepper, after posting a 6.4% gain in sales volume, became the 10th best-selling soda in 2006 according to <i>Beverage Digest</i> magazine. From 1991 to 2006, the beverage was marketed using the slogan "Diet Dr Pepper tastes more like Regular Dr Pepper." In 2006, a new marketing campaign was launched comparing the taste of Diet Dr Pepper to desserts instead of regular Dr Pepper with the slogan "There's nothing diet about it."</li> <li><b>Pepper Free</b> (1982â€"1985) was first introduced to test markets in 1982 as a caffeine-free version of Diet Dr Pepper, citing company research that indicated a need for a product to fill a niche for the health-conscious consumer. Originally introduced in only six states, the Pepper Free brand lasted for only three years, and was phased out in 1985. While a caffeine-free dietetic product continues to be produced under various name permutations, the reason for pulling the Pepper Free brand are unknown, but could have been due to confusion with the rival "Pepsi Free" brand (currently "Caffeine-Free Pepsi").</li> <li><b>Caffeine Free Dr Pepper</b> (not diet) was first released in 1983 due to the success of Pepper Free.</li> <li><b>Dr Pepper TEN</b>, a low-calorie version of Dr Pepper, was released in 2011. This version retained the taste of regular Dr Pepper, but with 10 calories per serving. It was marketed toward men, featuring a gunmetal-gray color scheme, industrial rivets, and bold font, and the tagline "It's Not for Women."</li> </ul><h3><span id="Flavor_variations">Flavor variations</span></h3> <ul><li><b>Dr Pepper Red Fusion</b> (2002â€"2004) was available only in the US. The predominantly cherry-flavored, red-colored Red Fusion was the first new flavor added to the Dr Pepper family of beverages in the company's 122-year history. Its production was essentially canceled less than a year later, although in certain areas it was available until late 2004.</li> <li><b>Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper</b> (began 2004) was released in some areas on October 15, 2004. The beverage tastes similar to Dr Pepper, but has stronger cherry and vanilla flavors added. Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper was the first drink in the planned "Soda Fountain Classics" line of beverages from Dr Pepper, a range of drinks designed to taste similar to popular soda fountain drinks from the 1950s. It is now only available in select areas of the US. It was available in Canada for a short time, but it ceased production as of mid-2007. It became available again in mid-2008 after Diet Cherry Chocolate Dr Pepper ceased production.</li> <li><b>Dr Pepper Berries and Cream</b>, (2006â€"2007) and its diet version, were released in most US locations in April 2006. It is the second beverage in Dr Pepper's "Soda Fountain Classics" line of drinks. In Canada, the diet version of the drink was available approximately from May 2007 to August 2007 and the nondiet version was available from September 2007 to December 2007. Berries and Cream and Diet Berries and Cream have also been discontinued.</li> <li><b>Diet Cherry Chocolate Dr Pepper</b> (2007â€"2008) was introduced as a limited edition flavor on November 21, 2007. It was discontinued in April 2008. It became available in Canada in early January 2008. A nondiet version was never created. The taste is similar to Canfield's Diet Cherry Chocolate Fudge Soda, but with the distinctive Dr Pepper flavor. It was featured in the song "Cherry Chocolate Rain" by YouTube celebrity Tay Zonday. Upon ceasing production, it was replaced by Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper.</li> <li><b>Dr Pepper Cherry</b> (began 2009) was released in some areas around February 2009. The beverage tastes similar to Dr Pepper, but has stronger cherry flavor added. Variety comes in both regular and diet versions. Gene Simmons of the band Kiss was chosen to be the variation's spokesman, with a commercial circulating on television in March/April 2009 featuring Kiss's song "Calling Dr. Love" ("Trust me, I'm a doctor" claims Simmons in the commercial).</li> <li><b>Heritage Dr Pepper</b> (or <b>Dr Pepper Heritage</b>) (began 2009) became available around November 2009 in various outlets around the United States. As its name implies, it is a "re-release" of sorts of Dr Pepper's original formula, which uses sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup, which Dr Pepper and other brands of soft drink started to use around the early 1970s. The formula of Heritage Dr Pepper and Dublin Dr Pepper are assumed to be one and the same, but Heritage Dr Pepper is a larger scale, national release aimed at capturing the same marketing essence as the Pepsi and Mountain Dew throwbacks.</li> <li><b>Dr Pepper "Made with Real Sugar"</b> was released to commemorate the drink's 125th anniversary during the summer of 2010. It featured the use of "real" sugar which was likely a mix of cane and beet sugar as opposed to its usual high fructose corn syrup. This version of the soda featured six collectable 12-oz cans and a 20-oz plastic bottle decorated with Dr Pepper's old slogans and images from the 1960s.</li> <li><b>Dr Pepper Vanilla Float</b> (2014) A limited edition 2014 Summer run of Dr Pepper with a vanilla ice cream taste. Available in 20-ounce bottles, 2-liter bottles, and 12-ounce 12 packs.</li> <li><b>UK Variation</b> United Kingdom's version of Dr Pepper, along with various other countries, is manufactured with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup (much like Heritage Dr Pepper in the US, as mentioned above). Since August 2014, a "New Improved" flavour has been marketed in the UK that reduces the amount of sugar from 10.3g per 100ml to 7.2g while adding artificial sweetners (aspartame and acesulfame k).</li> <li><b>Dr Pepper Zero</b> As Coca Cola distribute Dr Pepper in the UK, a "Zero" version was introduced, meaning no added sugar/low calorie, but maintaining a taste more in line with regular Dr Pepper than its diet variant.</li> </ul><h3><span id="Sweeteners">Sweeteners</span></h3> <p>Much of the soft drink industry in the United States stopped using sugar in the 1980s, in response to a series of price supports and import quotas introduced beginning in 1982 that increased the price of sugar above the global market price. As a result, most US soft drinks, including Dr Pepper, now use high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar.</p> <p>A handful of U.S. bottling plants still use sugar to sweeten Dr Pepper. The Dr Pepper bottling plant in Dublin, Texas used to produce such a beverage, known as Dublin Dr Pepper. In the 1980s, plant owner W.P. "Bill" Kloster (June 7, 1918 â€" September 27, 1999) refused to convert the plant to high fructose corn syrup. Other bottlers still using sugar include Temple Bottling Company, in Temple, Texas, Ab-Tex in Abilene, and West Jefferson Dr Pepper (WJDP) of West Jefferson, NC.</p> <p>On March 25, 2007, Coca-Cola bottlers in the Dr Pepper Heartland commenced sales of 16 ounce cans of Dr Pepper made with cane sugar and featuring a logo with 'Old Doc' on them. This product was scheduled to be a limited time release.</p> <p>In January 2009, "Heritage Dr Pepper" became available in select markets in cans and 16 oz bottles with the distinction "Made with Real Sugar."</p> <p>Beginning in July 2010, Dr Pepper's 125th Anniversary edition in some markets was made with sugar as opposed to other sweeteners. Since Dr Pepper Corporate has no control over whether the bottlers will use sugar, there is no guarantee the soda will have sugar.</p> <p>As of January 2012, the bottling plant in Dublin, Texas, is no longer bottling Dr Pepper.</p> <h2><span id="Distribution">Distribution</span></h2><br><img alt="Dr Pepper/Seven Up - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. was a Plano, Texas-based soft-drink manufacturing company created by the merger of Dr Pepper, Inc. and The 7 Up Company on May ..." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Dpsu.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Dr Pepper - Dr Pepper/Seven Up - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"><br> <p>In the United States, Dr Pepper Snapple Group does not have a complete network of bottlers and distributors, so the drink is sometimes bottled under contract by Coca-Cola or Pepsi bottlers. Prior to the initial Cadbury Schweppes investment-turned-buyout, 30% of Dr Pepper/Seven Up products were produced and distributed by Pepsi bottlers, and another 30% by Coca-Cola bottlers. The remaining 40% were produced and distributed by independent bottlers (mainly consisting of Dr Pepper/Seven Up premerger regional bottlers) and the Dr Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group. Currently, the majority of Pepsi and Coke bottlers bottling Dr Pepper are owned by PepsiCo and The Coca-Cola Company after their buyouts of their major bottlers.</p> <p>Presently, Dr Pepper Snapple relies on its own bottling group to bottle and distribute its products in more than 30 states. Coca-Cola and Pepsi have essentially stopped bottling and distributing CSAB products in favor of in-house alternatives, although regional exceptions can be found.</p> <p>In Canada and Poland, Cadbury-Schweppes has licensed distribution rights to PepsiCo. In Mexico, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Finland, Austria, Czech Republic, Belgium, and Norway, Cadbury-Schweppes owns the trademark and distributes the product. In Romania, it can be found only in larger cities, imported from Belgium. In Portugal, Spain, France, Turkey, and Greece, it is almost impossible to find, as it is usually imported from the United Kingdom in particular supermarkets. In almost all of the other countries of the world, the Coca-Cola Company purchased the trademark from Cadbury-Schweppes and distributes the product. This mixed worldwide ownership of the trademark is due to antitrust regulations which prevented Coca-Cola from purchasing the rights everywhere. Dr Pepper is also available in Russia, Japan and South Korea. Although not locally bottled in Australia or New Zealand, Dr Pepper is imported and sold by USA Foods, and many other small retailers in Australia. Dr Pepper is not available in Ukraine, Thailand, Italy, North Korea and Serbia. It is rarely sold in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, as it is imported from the United States.</p> <h2><span id="Other_products">Other products</span></h2><br><img alt="Dr Pepper - Logopedia, the logo and branding site - After 1954, the dot after " title="Dr Pepper - Dr Pepper - Logopedia, the logo and branding site"><br> <ul><li>Dr Pepper has a line of jelly beans made with the Jelly Belly company.</li> <li>Hubba Bubba bubblegum produces a Dr Pepper-flavored edition. The gum is the same color as the soda.</li> <li>Dr Pepper collaborated with Vita Food Products to produce Dr Pepper Sweet & Kickin' BBQ Sauce and Dr Pepper "More than Mesquite" Marinade.</li> <li>Cosmetics company Bonne Bell includes Dr Pepper among its licensed soft drink-flavored "Lip Smackers" lip balms.</li> <li>Brach's has a line of hard candy that features Dr Pepper, Orange Crush, A&W Root Beer, and 7 Up flavored hard candies in Brach's Soda Poppers.</li> <li>Dr Pepper has an ice cream topping syrup also manufactured by Vita Food Products in 2009 called "Dr Pepper cherry dessert topping".</li> <li>Dr Pepper also created an iPod skin cover, but it was discontinued.</li> <li>Dr Pepper Slurpee</li> <li>Dr Pepper Flavored Freezies are currently available with Grape Crush and Hires Root Beer flavors.</li> </ul><h2><span id="Marketing">Marketing</span></h2><br><br> <p>"Dr Pepper Time", according to one promotion, was at 10, 2 and 4 o'clock. During World War II, a syndicated radio program, <i>The 10â€"2â€"4 Ranch</i> (later titled <i>10â€"2â€"4 Time</i>), aired in the South and other areas where Dr Pepper was distributed. The show featured the Sons of the Pioneers and Dick Foran. In the 1960s, the tune of the chorus of "The Glow-Worm" was used in ads, with lyrics which ended, "It's Dr Pepper Time!"</p> <p>In the 1960s, Dr Pepper released the "Charge" ad:</p> <blockquote class="templatequote"> <p><i>Charge!!<br></i></p> <p><i>Get Going Again,<br></i> <i>With the Dr Pepper Difference.</i></p> </blockquote> <p>The "Be a Pepper" series referred to fans of Dr Pepper as "Peppers", and often featured crowd dance scenes with elaborate, over-the-top choreography led by actor/dancer David Naughton. One popular ad jingle was:</p> <blockquote class="templatequote"> <p><i>I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper,<br></i></p> <p><i>She's a Pepper, we're a Pepper,<br></i> <i>Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?<br></i> <i>Be a Pepper. Drink Dr Pepper.</i></p> </blockquote> <p>This became grist for a number of pop culture references and parodies. One of the first was a July 1981 sketch on the program <i>SCTV</i>, in which an overly-excited injured man (Eugene Levy) extols the work of a "Dr Shekter" (Rick Moranis) who has been treating him. Levy and a group of patients wearing casts and crutches engage in their own elaborate dancing and singing ("Wouldn't you like to see my doctor, too?"), which Shekter first uses as an opportunity to explain his work, and then grows alarmed ("These people should not be dancing!"). In the 1982 sex farce <i>Beach Girls</i>, the slogan became "I'm a popper, he's a popper..." Wreck-Gar parodied the slogan in <i>The Return of Optimus Prime</i>.</p> <p>After appearing in a series of commercials, David Naughton had his breakthrough film role as the main character in the John Landis film <i>An American Werewolf in London</i>. Another famous "I'm a Pepper" dancer was Ray Bolger, the actor who played the Scarecrow in the film <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>.</p> <p>In the early 1960s, Dr Pepper promoted the idea of serving the drink hot with lemon slices in winter. This idea appeared in the film <i>Blast from the Past</i> initially set in the early '60s.</p> <p>In 1978, Jake Holmes wrote the lyrics to "Be a Pepper". Earlier in the 1970s, Randy Newman wrote another jingle entitled "The Most Original Soft Drink Ever". Barry Manilow performed Jake's jingle in concerts and on albums under the inclusion of "VSM â€" Very Strange Medley". A TV commercial was also created using the jingle and ran from 1977â€"1985.</p> <p>Dr Pepper has also been featured outside the "I'm a Pepper" motif. An example is in the video game <i>Pikmin 2</i>, where one of the collectible treasures is a Dr Pepper bottle cap (it is labeled as the "Drought Ender"). Also, an empty Dr Pepper bottle is featured in the book <i>Ragweed</i> by Newbery Medal-winning author Avi; the book’s illustrator, Brian Floca, is the son of a Dr Pepper bottler. Several of the classic non-"I'm a Pepper" commercials featured prominent movie stars, one being a television advertisement with Chris Rock as a child enjoying a Dr Pepper.</p> <p>The 1980s "Out of the Ordinary" advertising campaign involved a series of postapocalyptic commercials featuring a space cowboy and an alien sidekick seeking "something different" from a simple generic cola. The campaign also produced commercials featuring the movie creature Godzilla, where citizens of a Japanese town offered Dr Pepper as a libation. The commercials were prominently featured during the 1986 syndication of <i>The Canned Film Festival</i>, which was sponsored by the Dr Pepper Company.</p> <p>Outside the United States, Squeeze's Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford played for a Dr Pepper advert in the UK with the slogan, "Hold out for the out of the ordinary."</p> <p>Dr Pepper's "Be You" advertising campaign centered on commercials featuring pairs of popular musicians, including LeAnn Rimes with Reba McEntire, Paulina Rubio with Celia Cruz, Thalía with Tito Puente, B2K with Smokey Robinson, Anastacia with Cyndi Lauper, Patricia Manterola with Ana Gabriel, and LL Cool J with Run-D.M.C. The campaign also featured individual musicians, notably Garth Brooks.</p> <p>Dr Pepper made several appearances in the 1994 Robert Zemeckis major motion picture, <i>Forrest Gump</i>, as it was the beverage of choice for the movie's namesake lead character, played by Tom Hanks. In one of the film's Dr Pepper scenes, Forrest's narrative suggests, "The best part about goin' to the White House was, they had all the food and drink that you wanted ... I must have had me 15 Dr Peppers." When subsequently asked by the President how he felt, Forrest gave an honest answer of "I gotta pee." Although, arguably the film's largest product placement installation, the depiction of Dr Pepper was perhaps not always accurate as, in another scene during the 1972 New Year's Eve celebration which Forrest attends, he drinks a Dr Pepper with a logo that was inconsistent with the timeline of the film.</p> <p>Dr Pepper was introduced to the Australian market in 1997 with a short-lived TV advertising campaign and low-priced 280-ml cans sold through supermarkets. Dr Pepper was subsequently sold in 1.25-litre plastic bottles alongside other major brands until 2003. Cadbury Schweppes stated the product did not gain acceptance by Australians, whose detractors complained that the drink tasted like "cough syrup" (a tag also given to sarsaparilla). A report on the soft drink industry by IBIS accused Cadbury Schweppes of failing in their marketing of the brand, given its global appeal. It is probable that the major problem with the marketing campaign was in advertising it as "American". The use of the Statue of Liberty moving to Australia and passing cans of Dr Pepper on to two Australian males made its imported (i.e. "non-Australian") status clear.</p> <p>After withdrawing from the Australian market, Dr Pepper arrived without fanfare in New Zealand. Cans imported from the US are available in some specialty stores in New Zealand and Australia.</p> <p>On the December 20, 2000, episode of the <i>Late Show with David Letterman</i>, Letterman jokingly referred to Dr Pepper as "liquid manure". After a representative of Dr Pepper complained, CBS agreed not to rerun that episode. Letterman repeatedly made assurances on the show that he was joking.</p> <p>From 2001 to 2003, Diet Dr Pepper aired ads that promise authentic Dr Pepper taste, using the slogan "Diet Dr Pepper tastes more like regular Dr Pepper", paroding new ideas inferior to the originals, including XGA (not PGA) Extreme Golf, <i>Green Bay Watch</i> (spoof of <i>Baywatch</i>) and a TV show <i>CHimPs</i> (rather than <i>CHiPs</i>). These ads were produced by They Might Be Giants.</p> <p>Several ads for Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper appeared on television in 2005. In one, a young woman on a blind date at a restaurant who sips into the beverage, suddenly makes her date, restaurant patrons, and even a waitress all part of a musical sequence involving The Muppets version of the song "Mah Nà Mah Nà".</p> <p>One campaign features the Queen song "I Want It All".</p> <p>On January 1, 2008, the company unveiled a new TV ad campaign featuring the <i>Cheers</i> theme song ("Where Everybody Knows Your Name") performed by Gary Portnoy.</p> <p>In a 2008 ad, someone was sitting in a college lecture and took a sip of his Dr Pepper. When he stopped drinking, the Dr Pepper can started singing "Flava Licious" (Flava Flav). He covered the can, and when he let go, the can played a Spanish version of the song. He took another sip, and it began playing a Queen version of the song. Everybody in the class (even the teacher and the brainiac) started "rocking out".</p> <p>In 2008, Dr Pepper in the UK restarted launching its old adverts and slogan, "What's the worst that can happen?" They also started an onpack promotion for free ringtones with up to 20 to collect. A commercial for this included Jesse Eisenberg being forced to be on live TV without his clothes on.</p> <p>As of 2009, the slogan of the product is "Drink it slow. Doctor's orders". Advertising supporting the slogan has celebrities with famous relations to the word "doctor" (Dr. Dre, Julius "Dr. J" Erving, Gene Simmons (writer of the Kiss song "Calling Dr. Love"), et al.) or who played fictional doctors (such as Neil Patrick Harris or Kelsey Grammer) endorsing the beverage. The ads culminate with the celebrity stating, "Trust me. I'm a doctor", followed by the new slogan appearing onscreen with a glass of Dr Pepper.</p> <p>In 2010, Dr Pepper was part of a marketing/promotional campaign with Marvel Studios to promote the summer blockbuster <i>Iron Man 2</i>; characters from the film adorned cans of Dr Pepper, Diet Dr Pepper, and Dr Pepper Cherry.</p> <p>In 2011, rapper Pitbull appeared in a commercial with the slogan "Let's have a real good time."</p> <p>Also in 2011, Dr Pepper was featured as an official drink in the anime <i>Steins;Gate</i>.</p> <h3><span id="Slogans">Slogans</span></h3> <ul><li>1889â€"1914: "King of Beverages."</li> <li>1920sâ€"1940s: "Drink a Bite to Eat at 10, 2, and 4 o'clock."</li> <li>1939: "When You Drink a Dr. Pepper You Drink a Bite to Eat."</li> <li>1930sâ€"1940s: "Good For Life."</li> <li>1945: "Dr. Pepper has 23 flavors"</li> <li>1950s: "The Friendly Pepper Upper."</li> <li>1960s: "America's Most Misunderstood Soft Drink."</li> <li>1970s-77: "The Most Original Soft Drink Ever."</li> <li>1977â€"1983: "I'm a Pepper, He's a Pepper, We're a Pepper.", "Be a Pepper.", "Wouldn't you like to Be a Pepper too?"</li> <li>1983: "Dr Pepper Has Made a Pepper Out of me."</li> <li>1983: "It Tastes and It Looks." (Sugar Free Dr Pepper)</li> <li>c. 1984 "Out of the Ordinary. Like You."</li> <li>c. 1984 "The Taste for Out of the Ordinary Bodies." (Diet Dr Pepper)</li> <li>1984â€"1997: "Hold Out For the Out of the Ordinary."</li> <li> ?1980sâ€"Present "Dr Pepper, what's the worst that could happen?", used in the UK, playing on the fact that many UK consumers don't know what the drink tastes like and are wary of trying it</li> <li>1991: "Just what the Doctor ordered."</li> <li>c. 1997: "It's Dr Pepper Flavour, Silly!" Australia</li> <li>c. 1997: "Expect the Unexpected!" Australia</li> <li>1997: "Now's the Time. This is the Place. Dr Pepper Is The Taste."</li> <li>2000: "Dr Pepper, It Makes the World Taste Better."</li> <li>2000â€"Present: "Just What The Dr Ordered."</li> <li>c. 2001 "Dr Pepper, so misunderstood"</li> <li>2002â€"2004: "Be You."</li> <li>2002â€"Present: "Solves All Your Problems." (used in Europe)</li> <li>2003 "Dr Pepper, to try it is to love it" (used in the UK)</li> <li>2005â€"Present: "One Taste & You Get It."</li> <li>2006: "Can You Handle The Taste?" (seen in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and Poland)</li> <li>2006: "Authentic blend of 23 flavors." USA, Canada</li> <li>2006: "Dr Pepper, makes the world go round."</li> <li>2006: "Dr Pepper, nothing better." USA</li> <li>2006: "The Dr knows the right touch." (used in Europe)</li> <li>2006: "There's more to it." USA</li> <li>c. 2006: "Get Berried in Cream" USA (used for the new Berries and Cream flavor)</li> <li>2007: "I Want It All." USA</li> <li>2007: "El Dr muy bueno" Latin America</li> <li>2008: "Drink It Slow, Dr's Orders" (USA)</li> <li>2009: "Trust me â€" I'm a Doctor." (ft. Julius Erving, Kelsey Grammer, Gene Simmons, Dr. Dre) USA</li> <li>2009: "It's so amazingly smooth, you have try it to believe it!" and "Amazingly smooth" Dr Pepper Cherry</li> <li>2010: "There's nothing like a Pepper" USA</li> <li>2011: "Can you handle the taste?"</li> <li>2012: "Always One of a Kind" (USA)</li> </ul><h3><span id="Dr_Pepper_Girl">Dr Pepper Girl</span></h3> <p>In 1963, singer Donna Loren became a spokesperson for the company when she was selected in a nationwide search to be the “Dr Pepper Girl”. National exposure followed for Loren as she promoted the drink via radio, print, television, calendars, billboards, and personal appearances. One of her first appearances for the company was as co-host with Dick Clark (who she worked with regularly) of an ABC television special, <i>Dr Pepper Celebrity Party</i>. She subsequently made hundreds of singing and personal appearances for Dr Pepper. In <i>Dr Pepperâ€"King of Beverages</i>, Dr Pepper historian Harry E. Ellis wrote, “Sparkly, vivacious and gifted with a wonderful voice, Donna was an immediate success. She became widely known in a short period as “The Dr Pepper Girl,” appearing at special events and on programs sponsored by the Company. Miss Loren would figure prominently in Dr Pepper’s plans for about five years, both as an entertainer and as an advertisement personality via radio, TV, and many other media. She appeared on 24-sheet poster boards, point-of-sale and on Dr Pepper calendars.”</p> <p>Donna Loren’s role as Dr Pepper spokesperson led to her first appearance in the American International Pictures’ Beach Party film, <i>Muscle Beach Party</i>. Loren later explained: “Dr Pepper was involved in that [the Beach Party movies] and actually placed me as product placement. And because I could sing, they gave me a duet with Dick Dale, and then it just went on from there.” From this, she went on to appear in three more Beach Party films. Away from the company, Loren was a familiar presence in the 1960s due to her many performances on television, films, and her records for Capitol, Reprise and other labels. She represented Dr Pepper until 1968.</p> <h3><span id="Free_Dr_Pepper_for_everyone_in_America">Free Dr Pepper for everyone in America</span></h3> <p>In a unique marketing strategy, Dr Pepper entered a dare of sorts between themselves and Guns N' Roses front man Axl Rose. They stated that if Axl Rose managed to release his new album, <i>Chinese Democracy</i>, in 2008, they would give everyone in America a free Dr Pepper. <i>Chinese Democracy</i>, which was in development status for fourteen years, was released on November 23, 2008.</p> <p>Dr Pepper put a coupon for a free can on its website, but the website to download the coupon was inaccessible throughout most of the day. In response to the difficulties, the option to phone in a request was made. After dialing 1-888-DRPEPPER, the caller was greeted with an acknowledgment of the technical problems with the website and was then allowed to enter the name, address, and email address to receive the free Dr Pepper. Due to the website issues, the offer was extended until 6 pm on November 24, 2008; yet several people still experienced problems registering.</p> <p>Rose threatened to sue Dr Pepper's manufacturer for a public apology and undisclosed damages, alleging it failed to honor this promise. No suit was filed.</p> <h2><span id="Dr_Pepper_Museum">Dr Pepper Museum</span></h2><br><br> <p>The Dr Pepper Museum, located in the Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company building at 300 South Fifth Street in downtown Waco, Texas, opened to the public in 1991. The building was the first building to be built specifically to bottle Dr Pepper. It was completed in 1906, and Dr Pepper was bottled there until the 1960s. The museum has three floors of exhibits, a working old-fashioned soda fountain, and a gift store of Dr Pepper memorabilia.</p> <h2><span id="Dr_Pepper_Capital_of_the_World">Dr Pepper Capital of the World</span></h2><br><br> <p>The company sells more Dr Pepper in the Roanoke Valley area of Virginia than any other metropolitan area east of the Mississippi River. Roanoke is approximately 90 miles east of the hometown of Dr Charles T. Pepper, which is Rural Retreat, Virginia, and 30 miles east of Christiansburg, Virginia, home of Dr Pepper and Morrison referred to in the census information above. In the past, the city has been named the "Dr Pepper Capital of the World" and broke world records for its mass consumption of Dr Pepper in the late 1950s. Dr Pepper donated a portion of its sales revenue in the Roanoke area to finance restoration of a circa-1950s neon Dr Pepper sign, which has the company's "10â€"2â€"4" logo from the time, in downtown Roanoke.</p> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="Further_reading">Further reading</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li><span>Rodengen, Jeffrey L. (1995). <i>The Legend of Dr Pepper/Seven-Up</i>. Write Stuff Syndicate, Inc. ISBN 0-945903-49-9.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADr+Pepper&rft.aufirst=Jeffrey+L.&rft.aulast=Rodengen&rft.au=Rodengen%2C+Jeffrey+L.&rft.btitle=The+Legend+of+Dr+Pepper%2FSeven-Up&rft.date=1995&rft.genre=book&rft.isbn=0-945903-49-9&rft.pub=Write+Stuff+Syndicate%2C+Inc.&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></li> <li><span>"History of Dr Pepper"<span>. Retrieved <span>July 4,</span> 2007</span>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADr+Pepper&rft.btitle=History+of+Dr+Pepper&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brandspeoplelove.com%2Fcsab%2FBrands%2FDrPepper%2FHistoryofDrPepper%2Ftabid%2F147%2FDefault.aspx&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></li> </ul><h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Dr Pepper official website</li> <li>Dr Pepper on MySpace</li> <li>The Dr Pepper Museum</li> <li>Dr Pepper Company at <i>Handbook of Texas Online</i></li> <li>FTC Statement on Coca-Cola Dr Pepper Merger</li> <li>Temple Bottling Company, in Temple, Texas</li> <li>Bootlegging Dr Pepper, June 5, 2008, by Robb Walsh, Houston Press</li> <li>Original Formula Found at Drug Store</li> <li>Bill Waters finds Dr Pepper original formula in notebook in antique store in Texas, May 5, 2009, Associated Press in New York Daily News</li> <li>Caffeine Content for Dr Pepper flavors compared to some other beverages, Good Housekeeping</li> </ul></h2><br><br>

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<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhbwrABUbfAE-rXXWcwY9aBSqlcjG4_vZMIiZu1oCfwFT7jDCdULlwgwlPyPpD9uaWq9NyIeXdVnLbTnMsOkweonEOxWc7EG3jNPS-148-ugsq9lX5ALiAeLDtpYGypFIscnKZhbDeFPM/s1600/250px-Anahuacalli3-721709.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6152601736461380066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhbwrABUbfAE-rXXWcwY9aBSqlcjG4_vZMIiZu1oCfwFT7jDCdULlwgwlPyPpD9uaWq9NyIeXdVnLbTnMsOkweonEOxWc7EG3jNPS-148-ugsq9lX5ALiAeLDtpYGypFIscnKZhbDeFPM/s320/250px-Anahuacalli3-721709.JPG" /></a></p><p>The <b>Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli</b> or simply <b>Anahuacalli Museum</b> is a museum located in Coyoacán, in the south of Mexico City.</p> <p>The unique museum was conceived and created by muralist Diego Rivera, who, motivated by his own interest in Mexican culture, collected near 60,000 pre-Hispanic pieces during his life and projected a building to place and exhibit them. It was completed after his death by architects Juan O'Gorman and Heriberto Pagelson and Rivera's own daughter, Ruth. Built of black volcanic stone, it takes the form of a pyramid. The museum articles are collected from almost every indigenous civilisation in Mexico's history.</p> <p>The word <i>Anahuacalli</i> literally means "house around of water" in Nahuatl.</p> <h2><span id="Interior">Interior</span></h2><br><img alt="Anahuacallimuseum - Wikipedia - Het Anahuacallimuseum (Spaans: Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli) is een museum gelegen in het district Coyoacán in Mexico-Stad. Anahuacalli betekent ..." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Anahuacalli_museum_mexico_city.JPG/250px-Anahuacalli_museum_mexico_city.JPG" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Anahuacalli Museum - Anahuacallimuseum - Wikipedia"><br> <p>The building forms a teocalli with means “sacred house”, its design notably influenced by the Teotihuacan culture as can be appreciated in the building’s boards, recreating the image of the rain god Tlaloc. It also shows Maya and Aztec influences, as can be appreciated in the hexagonal (Maya) and rectangular (Aztec) arcs that give access to the different showrooms.</p> <p>There are funerary urns, masks and sculptures from the ancient culture of Teotihuacan and a smaller gallery next to the pyramid contains an exhibition of papier mache sculpture relating to the Days of the Dead, celebrated from October 31 to November 2.</p> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img alt="Museo Anahuacalli - Museo diseñado por el Muralista Diego Rivera en el que se exhibe su obra. Información, servicios y forma de contacto." src="http://www.museoanahuacalli.org.mx/images/colecciones.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Anahuacalli Museum - Museo Anahuacalli"><br> <p><span><span><span title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span>19°19′21″N</span> <span>99°08′39″W</span></span></span></span></p> <ul><li>Official <b>Anahuacalli Museum</b> website</li> <li>Walkerphotographix.com: Photo Tour of the Anahuacalli Museum</li> <li>Recorridosvirtuales.com: Virtual 360° Tour of the Anahuacalli Museum</li> </ul><p><br></p> <p><br style="clear:both;"></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br style="clear:both;"></p></h2><br><img alt="Mexico City Anahuacalli Museum - Diego Rivera-Anahuacalli Museum - Mexico City Attractions from Viator.com." src="http://cache-graphicslib.viator.com/graphicslib/page-images/360x240/177573_Viator_TripAdvisor_UGC_141043.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Anahuacalli Museum - Mexico City Anahuacalli Museum"><br>

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Cincinnati Fire Museum

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpdxb2WvK3A0HUSMsgge0_oib-jCV3I8JKSA_lf1N6SsEQi2j2gH4W-B5-n7n3saIesRkxsM8cVtGh2krKZumITBk24fil_ZfAiX4PgynpVM4lluFz-Q7mPg95XQWQxIn0Y1FnsBpibIw/s1600/250px-FireMuseum-782040.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6152592981230245122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpdxb2WvK3A0HUSMsgge0_oib-jCV3I8JKSA_lf1N6SsEQi2j2gH4W-B5-n7n3saIesRkxsM8cVtGh2krKZumITBk24fil_ZfAiX4PgynpVM4lluFz-Q7mPg95XQWQxIn0Y1FnsBpibIw/s320/250px-FireMuseum-782040.jpg" /></a></p><p>The <b>Cincinnati Fire Museum</b> preserves and exhibits Greater Cincinnati, Ohio's firefighting artifacts and honors firefighters, both past and present.</p> <p>Over 200 years of firefighting history is on display in the Cincinnati Fire Museum. Exhibits include examples of early leather fire buckets, an 1808 fire drum, the oldest surviving fire engine in Cincinnati, and an 1836 hand pumper. The museum also features and interactive exhibit that allows visitors to experience a modern Emergency-One fire engine cab by wailing the siren, ringing the bell, and flashing the lights.</p> <h2><span id="Court_Street_Firehouse">Court Street Firehouse</span></h2><br><br> <p>The fire museum is housed in the restored 1907 <b>Court Street Firehouse</b> at 315 West Court Street (near Plum Street in Downtown Cincinnati). The firehouse was part of the Cincinnati Fire Department. The Court Street Firehouse is a registered historic building, listed in the National Register on July 18, 1974.</p> <h2><span id="Notes">Notes</span></h2><br><img alt="Cincinnati Fire Museum (OH) on TripAdvisor: Address, Phone ... - Cincinnati Fire Museum, Cincinnati: See 25 reviews, articles, and 3 photos of Cincinnati Fire Museum, ranked No.43 on TripAdvisor among 190 attractions in ..." src="http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/07/cc/53/18/cincinnati-police-museum.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Cincinnati Fire Museum - Cincinnati Fire Museum (OH) on TripAdvisor: Address, Phone ..."><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Cincinnati Fire Museum Official site</li> </ul><p><br></p></h2><br><img a="" alt="Cincinnati Fire Museum - Museums - Cincinnati, OH - Yelp - 6 Reviews of Cincinnati Fire Museum " artifacts.="" great="" historical="" little="" lot="" museum="" of="" title="Cincinnati Fire Museum - Cincinnati Fire Museum - Museums - Cincinnati, OH - Yelp" with=""><br>

Cincinnati Fire Museum

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Norwalk City Hall - Norwalk Museum

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqWeQfF1FqnntPGqNcAkLlgtBweFPJ_0uSvu9zvU45BY4a0vSIL9ncqsK2ohRzFMOYvCvskzRVDGZKjOusbH8CxFTgOVcjOBzWGlQqHwWs6VZ7TjDdxxT2s4JzyFr6KmzxspOTchisP_s/s1600/250px-NorwalkCTNorwalkMuseum80122007-722110.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6152586276202423586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqWeQfF1FqnntPGqNcAkLlgtBweFPJ_0uSvu9zvU45BY4a0vSIL9ncqsK2ohRzFMOYvCvskzRVDGZKjOusbH8CxFTgOVcjOBzWGlQqHwWs6VZ7TjDdxxT2s4JzyFr6KmzxspOTchisP_s/s320/250px-NorwalkCTNorwalkMuseum80122007-722110.JPG" /></a></p><p>The former <b>Norwalk City Hall</b> is located at 41 North Main Street in the South Norwalk section of Norwalk, Connecticut and built in 1912. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 23, 1995.</p> <p>Norwalk's city hall has since moved to 125 East Avenue. The first and second floors of the old structure later became home to Norwalk Museum, which was operated by the city government. As a museum, the building contained archival material and other items related to Norwalk's culture and history, including documents, items of significance to the history of Norwalk and artwork.</p> <p>In May 2012, the city removed funding for operation of the museum. The old city hall was not owned by the city, and according to city officials the annual rent was not justified by the several thousand annual visitors. The museum was closed to the public later that month. The city plans to transfer the exhibits and archival documents located at the old city hall to temporary storage and eventually redisplay the material at another location </p> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><img official="" title="Norwalk City Hall - Norwalk, CT â€"><br> <ul><li>Mill Hill Historic Park</li> <li>National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairfield County, Connecticut</li> </ul><h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Norwalk Museum home page [1]</li> <li>Culinary Menus Web page on the museum [2]</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br></h2><br><img alt="Trade unions pitch apprenticeship programs at jobs fair at Norwalk ... - 2 days ago ... Trade unions pitch apprenticeship programs at jobs fair at Norwalk City Hall. Hour photo / Erik Trautmann Omar Izazaga, Local 146 of the ..." src="http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/thehour.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/bd/2bdc8001-677f-5167-9850-46ed9d4ef956/555fbc17dd298.image.jpg?resize=760%2C505" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Norwalk City Hall - Trade unions pitch apprenticeship programs at jobs fair at Norwalk ..."><br>

Norwalk City Hall - Norwalk Museum

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Museum Of Flight - Boeing Aviation Museum

<p>The <b>Museum of Flight</b> is a private non-profit air and space museum in the northwest United States. It is located at the southern end of King County International Airport (Boeing Field), in the city of Tukwila, just south of Seattle. It was established in 1965 and is fully accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. As the largest private air and space museum in the world, it also hosts the largest K-12 educational programs in the world.</p> <p>The museum attracts over 400,000 visitors every year. The museum serves more than 140,000 students yearly through both its onsite programs: a Challenger Learning Center, an Aviation Learning Center, and a summer camp (ACE), as well as outreach programs that travel throughout Washington and Oregon.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img alt="Museum of Flight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - The Museum of Flight is a private non-profit air and space museum in the northwest United States. It is located at the southern end of King County International ..." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Museum_of_Flight,_Seattle.jpg/220px-Museum_of_Flight,_Seattle.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Museum Of Flight - Museum of Flight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"><br> <p>The Museum of Flight can trace its roots back to the Pacific Northwest Aviation Historical Foundation, which was founded in 1965 to recover and restore a 1929 Boeing 80A-1, which had been discovered in a landfill in Anchorage, Alaska. The restoration took place over a 16 year period, and after completion, was put on display as a centerpiece for the museum. In 1968, the name "Museum of Flight" first appeared in use in a 10,000-square-foot facility, rented at the Seattle Center. Planning began at this time for a more permanent structure, and preliminary concepts were drafted.</p> <p>In 1975, The <i>William E. Boeing Red Barn</i> was acquired for one dollar from the Port of Seattle, which had taken possession of it after Boeing abandoned it during World War II. The 1909 all-wooden Red Barn, the original home of the company, was barged two miles (3 km) up the Duwamish River to its current location at the southwestern end of Boeing Field. Fundrasing was slow in the late 1970s, and after restoration, the two-story Red Barn was opened to the public in 1983.</p> <p>That year a funding campaign was launched, so capital could be raised for construction of the <i>T.A. Wilson Great Gallery</i>. In 1987, Vice President George Bush, joined by four Mercury astronauts, cut the ribbon to open the facility on July 10, with an expansive volume of 3,000,000 cubic feet (85,000 m³). The gallery's structure is built in a space frame lattice structure and holds more than 20 hanging aircraft, including a Douglas DC-3 weighing more than nine tons.</p> <p>The museum's education programs grew significantly with the building of a Challenger Learning Center in 1992. This interactive exhibit allows students to experience a Space Shuttle mission. It includes a mock-up NASA mission control, and experiments from all areas of space research.</p> <p>Completed in 1994, the 132-seat Wings Cafe and the 250-seat Skyline multipurpose banquet and meeting room increased the museum's footprint to 185,000 square feet (17,200 m²). At the same time, one of the museum's most widely recognized and popular artifacts, the Lockheed M-21, a modified Lockheed A-12 Oxcart designed to carry the Lockheed D-21 reconnaissance drones, was placed on the floor at the center of the Great Gallery, after being fully restored.</p> <p>The first jet-powered Air Force One (1959â€"62, SAM 970), a Boeing VC-137B, was flown to Boeing Field in 1996; it arrived in June and was opened to visitors in October. Retired from active service earlier that year, it is on loan from the Air Force Museum. Originally parked on the east side of the museum, it was driven across East Marginal Way and now resides in the museum's Airpark, where it is open to public walkthroughs.</p> <p>In 1997, the museum opened the first full scale, interactive Air Traffic Control tower exhibit. The tower overlooks the Boeing Field runways, home to one of the thirty busiest airports in the country. The exhibit offers a glimpse into what it is like to be an air traffic controller.</p> <p>The next major expansion was opened in 2004, with the addition of the <i>J. Elroy McCaw Personal Courage Wing</i>. North of the Red Barn, the wing has 88,000 square feet (8,200 m²) of exhibit space on two floors, with more than 25 World War I and World War II aircraft. It also has large collection of model aircraft, including every plane from both wars. Many of these aircraft were from the collection of the Champlin Fighter Museum, formerly in Mesa, Arizona, which closed in 2003. The wing opened on June 6, the sixtieth anniversary of D-Day.</p> <p>In June 2010, the museum broke ground on a $12 million new building to house a Space Shuttle it hoped to receive from NASA, named the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery. The new building includes multisensory exhibits that emphasize stories from the visionaries, designers, pilots, and crews of the Space Shuttle and other space related missions. The gallery opened to the public in November 2012.</p> <p>Though the museum did not receive one of the three remaining shuttles, it did receive the Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT), a shuttle mockup that was used to train all Space Shuttle astronauts. Because it is a trainer and not an actual shuttle, certain groups will be allowed to tour its interior. The FFT began arriving in various pieces beginning in 2012. The cockpit and two sections of the payload bay arrived via NASA's Super Guppy.</p> <h2><span id="Aircraft_on_display">Aircraft on display</span></h2><br><img alt="Museum of Flight in Seattle - Museum of Flight, Seattle: See 2601 reviews, articles, and 814 photos of Museum of Flight, ranked No.2 on TripAdvisor among 512 attractions in Seattle." src="http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/04/03/6a/dd/emp-museum.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Museum Of Flight - Museum of Flight in Seattle"><br> <p>The Museum of Flight has more than 150 aircraft in its collection, including:</p> <ul><li>a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, faithfully restored by pilot Linda Finch to match the one Amelia Earhart was piloting when she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean</li> <li>the first flight-worthy Boeing 747 airliner, the <i>City of Everett</i>. Its registration number is N7470, and it was named after the city of Everett, Washington. Its first flight was on February 9, 1969, and was retired in 1990.</li> <li>the first presidential jet, VC-137B SAM 970, which served in the presidential fleet from 1959 to 1996 (open for walkthrough)</li> <li>British Airways Concorde number 214, registration G-BOAG (open for walkthrough). This is one of only four Concordes on display outside Europe, with the other three being near Washington, in New York, and in Barbados.</li> <li>a Caproni Ca.20, the world's first fighter plane from World War I. The one on display at the Museum of Flight was the only one ever built.</li> <li>Lockheed D-21 unmanned reconnaissance drone, atop the only surviving M-21 a variant of the Lockheed A-12.</li> <li>The surviving cockpit section of a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird that crashed in 1968.</li> <li>the prototype Boeing 737.</li> <li>the second Lockheed Martin/Boeing DarkStar Tier III unmanned vehicle prototype</li> </ul> <ul><li>the Gossamer Albatross II human-powered aircraft.</li> <li>one of five Aerocars, automobiles with detachable wings and propeller</li> <li>LearAvia Lear Fan prototype N626BL</li> <li>one of only two remaining airworthy Douglas DC-2s.</li> <li>the only surviving Boeing 80A, flown by Bob Reeve in Alaska.</li> <li>An American Airlines Boeing 727.</li> <li>An ex-Trans-Canada Air Lines Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation located originally at the Toronto Pearson International Airport which was purchased in a controversial transaction in 2005. It is currently on display at the airpark.</li> <li>The Lamson L-106 Alcor, the world's first pressurized sailplane.</li> </ul><h2><span id="Exhibits_and_Facilities">Exhibits and Facilities</span></h2><br><img alt="National Museum of Flight - Wing your way to one of Scotland's best days out this year at National Museum of Flight, East Fortune." src="http://www.nms.ac.uk/CropUp/largemodule/media/644979/2010_08_12_sb_02.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Museum Of Flight - National Museum of Flight"><br> <p>On its grounds is the Personal Courage Wing (PCW) with 28 World War I and World War II aircraft from several countries including Germany, Russia, and Japan.</p> <p>There is also the "Red Barn", a registered historic site also known as Building No. 105. Built in 1909, the building was used during the early 1900s as Boeing's original manufacturing plant. Through photographs, film, oral histories, and restoration of work stations the exhibits in the Red Barn illustrate how wooden aircraft structure with fabric overlays were manufactured in the early years of aviation and provides a history of aviation development through 1958.</p> <p>In June 2007 the Museum opened a new space exhibit: "Space: Exploring the New Frontier", which traces the evolution of space flight from the times of Dr. Robert Goddard to the present and into future commercial spaceflight.</p> <h3><span id="Restoration_facility">Restoration facility</span></h3> <p>The museum maintains a restoration facility at Paine Field in Everett with about 39 ongoing projects including a de Havilland Comet 4 jet airliner, a Jetstar, the Boeing 2707 mockup, an FM-2 Wildcat, among many. A previous project, the only flyable Boeing 247 in existence, is based from the airfield at the restoration center. A restored B-17, currently the only flyable B-17F variant of the B-17 and a B-29 in progress are currently hangared at Boeing Field. The B-17 is displayed seasonally in the summer, on the grass next to the B-47, in front of the Museum's entrance.</p> <h3><span id="Museum_of_Flight_Library_and_Archives">Museum of Flight Library and Archives</span></h3> <p>The museum has a library dedicated to aviation that is open to the public. The archives are accessible to the public via the Kenneth H. Dalhberg Aviation Research Center.</p> <p>The Harl V. Brackin Library was founded in 1985. As of 2011, it contains 66,000 books and subscribes to 100 periodicals. It specializes in aerospace and aviation. There is also an online catalog.</p> <p>The Museum of Flight Archives includes millions of photographs and thousands of linear feet of manuscript materials. Highlights of the collection include the Gordon S. Williams photographic collection, the Peter M. Bowers photographic collection, the David D. Hatfield Aviation History collection, the Elrey B. Jeppesen Aviation History and Navigation collection, the American Fighter Aces Association Archives, the Lear Corporation Archives, and the Wright Airplane Company Collection.</p> <h3><span id="Other_facilities">Other facilities</span></h3> <p>In September, 2013 Raisbeck Aviation High School (formerly Aviation High School), opened in a new facility directly north of the Museum's Airpark. The school operated by Highline Public Schools as a STEM school with a focus on aviation. The school operates in partnership with the Museum (which owns the land), Boeing, and other members of the local aviation industry. The facility will also be used for the museum's summer education programs when school is not in session.</p> <p>There are also plans to enclose the Airpark with a roof, covering the currently exposed aircraft from the weather. The roof will span the gap between the high school and the newly built Space Gallery. The cover will also allow aircraft which are seasonally brought out, such as the Museum's B-17 and B-29, to be put permanently on display.</p> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><img alt="The Museum of Flight (@museumofflight) | Twitter - 5589 tweets • 597 photos/videos • 9619 followers. " title="Museum Of Flight - The Museum of Flight (@museumofflight) | Twitter"><br> <ul><li>List of aerospace museums</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <dl><dt>Notes</dt> </dl> <dl><dt>Bibliography</dt> </dl> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li><span><span>Official website</span></span></li> <li>Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms, a National Park Service <i>Discover Our Shared Heritage</i> Travel Itinerary</li> </ul></h2><br><br>

Museum Of Flight - Boeing Aviation Museum

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Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb - Robin Williams Night At The Museum

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3YHSoJD397FhFcJMUWz3TnCviEPguRchUPBFkl-GY7U2MQEbydPQ_bWjiUa_YpKsxcetUF7xOHH-WX6hWcT1RTciHRbkhmqQq-KSBTo-_UrlgG17FQAurkf7v-L3aP8ymh3I0QKGgYDs/s1600/220px-Night_at_the_Museum_Secret_of_the_Tomb_poster-721610.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6152570814828802306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3YHSoJD397FhFcJMUWz3TnCviEPguRchUPBFkl-GY7U2MQEbydPQ_bWjiUa_YpKsxcetUF7xOHH-WX6hWcT1RTciHRbkhmqQq-KSBTo-_UrlgG17FQAurkf7v-L3aP8ymh3I0QKGgYDs/s320/220px-Night_at_the_Museum_Secret_of_the_Tomb_poster-721610.jpg" /></a></p><p><i><b>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</b></i> is a 2014 American comedy film directed by Shawn Levy and written by David Guion and Michael Handelman. It is the sequel to the 2006 film <i>Night at the Museum</i> and the 2009 film <i>Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian</i>. The film stars Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Dan Stevens and Ben Kingsley. It is the third and final installment of the <i>Night at the Museum</i> trilogy.</p> <p>In <i>Secret of the Tomb</i>, security guard Larry Daley must travel to London to return the tablet of Ahkmenrah, an Egyptian artifact which causes the artifacts to come to life, before the magic disappears. The film premiered on December 11, 2014 at New York City's Ziegfeld Theater and was released in the United States. on December 19, 2014. <i>Secret of the Tomb</i> received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $360 million at the box office. <i>Secret of the Tomb</i> is dedicated in memory of Mickey Rooney and Robin Williams.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Plot">Plot</span></h2><br><img alt="Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) - IMDb - Dan Stevens at event of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014 Still of Ben Stiller and Rebel Wilson in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Still of Ricky ..." src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjI1MzM2ODEyMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNTIzODAwMzE@._V1_SY929_CR9,0,630,929_AL_.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb - Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) - IMDb"><br> <p>In 1938, in Egypt a team of archaeologists is searching for a tomb and its treasure. A young boy falls into it, calling to his father and the team; they discover the artifact -- the tablet of Ahkmenrah. The locals tell them that if they remove the tablet, "the end will come".</p> <p>In present-day New York City, night guard Larry Daley is overseeing an evening event at the American Museum of Natural History. Larry has gathered his favorite exhibits, which come to life every night, to help with the entertainment; they include Teddy Roosevelt, Attila the Hun, Sacagawea, Dexter the Monkey, diorama miniature cowboy Jed and miniature roman centurion Octavius, and "Rexy" the T-Rex skeleton. Larry meets a new wax figure Neanderthal who calls himself Laaa. Pharaoh Ahkmenrah had earlier warned Larry that the tablet is corroding, which had been causing the exhibits to act abnormally. At the event, the exhibits get out of control and the attendees flee. When Larry gets home, he finds his son Nicky throwing a party. Nicky explains he doesn't intend to apply to college, wanting to take a year off to figure out what he wants to do with his life.</p> <p>Larry researches the tablet and learns Cecil Fredericks, the former security guard who tried to steal the tablet in the first movie, was the boy from 1938 who helped discover it. Larry goes to Cecil’s retirement home and explains to Cecil what is happening at the museum. Cecil recalls the locals' warning that "the end will come”, realizing it was not an "end of the world" prophecy but a warning that the tablet's magic would end. He suggests that Larry consult Ahkmenrah's parents, who are in the British Museum.</p> <p>Larry and Nicky travel to London to the museum, meeting the security guard, Tilly, who lets them in. When Larry enters, he sees that his favorite exhibits all stowed away to join in the adventure. The tablet brings the British exhibits to life and the gang encounters a Triceratops skeleton, which chases them. The exhibit Sir Lancelot saves them but Jed and Octavius fall into a ventilation shaft. Larry sends Dexter to find Jed and Octavius, who have fallen even more, landing in a Pompeii exhibit just before the model Mount Vesuvius erupts. The others fight off a nine-headed Xiangliu statue and Dexter stops the volcano's flow to save Jed and Octavius.</p> <p>The gang finds Ahkmenrah’s parents and his father, Merenkahre, reveals the purpose and power of the tablet: it was made to keep his family together forever. The tablet is endowed with the power of Khonsu, god of the moon, and needs frequent exposure to moonlight to retain its magic. Lancelot steals the tablet, mistaking it for the Holy Grail, then leaves to find his Lady Guinevere. The tablet continues to corrode, which damages the New York exhibits and threatens their “lives”. The gang splits up to find Lancelot, but Tilly apprehends Larry and locks him and Laaa in the employee break room. Larry reflects upon his relationship with Nicky and then Laaa breaks them out. The gang leaves the museum to continue the search, but the Trafalgar Square lion statues corner them. Larry distracts the statues with his flashlight and the search continues.</p> <p>Lancelot has arrived at a local theater showing a production of <i>Camelot</i> starring Hugh Jackman as King Arthur and Alice Eve as Guinevere. He runs onstage, trying to convince "Guinevere" to join him. The gang arrives soon after and convinces Lancelot he's mistaken, chasing him to the roof. Larry persuades Lancelot to give him back the tablet to save the other exhibits, which have returned to their lifeless state. Larry adjusts the tablet and the moonlight restores it, reanimating the exhibits.</p> <p>Larry returns the tablet to Merenkahre after the New York exhibits decide that the tablet and the pharaohs should stay together. As everyone parts ways, Larry tells Tilly that tomorrow night she will have the greatest job in the world. After returning to New York, the exhibits accept that they will permanently return to their inanimate state and they say goodbye to Larry.</p> <p>Three years later, a traveling British Museum exhibition comes to the museum. Tilly gives the tablet to McPhee, whose job Larry had saved by taking the blame for the chaos at the evening event at the beginning of the film. She shows all the exhibits have come to life because of the tablet's power and are partying in the museum. Larry pauses on the sidewalk and sees the flashing lights of the party inside the museum, smiling.</p> <h2><span id="Cast">Cast</span></h2><br><img alt="NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 3 Trailer (Ben Stiller - 2014) - YouTube - Jul 30, 2014 ... NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 3 " of="" secret="" the="" title="Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb - NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 3 Trailer (Ben Stiller - 2014) - YouTube"><br> <h3><span id="Voices">Voices</span></h3> <ul><li>Robin Williams as Garuda Artifact.</li> <li>Brad Garrett as Easter Island Head.</li> <li>Regina Taufen as New York Reporter.</li> </ul><h2><span id="Production">Production</span></h2><br><img alt="Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb - Night At The Museum Wiki - Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb is a 2014 American adventure comedy film directed by Shawn Levy. It is a sequel to both Night at the Museum and ..." src="http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140128152242/natm/images/thumb/5/5a/Article-0-1B04913600000578-454_634x680.jpg/500px-Article-0-1B04913600000578-454_634x680.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb - Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb - Night At The Museum Wiki"><br> <p>On January 21, 2010, co-writer Thomas Lennon said to <i>Access Hollywood</i>, "I think it's a really outstanding idea to do <i>Night at the Museum 3</i>, in fact. I wonder if someone's not even already working on a script for that. I cannot confirm that for a fact, but I cannot deny it for a fact either... It might be in the works." In an October 2011 interview with <i>The Hollywood Reporter</i>, Stiller confirmed the sequel, however, he said that it was only in the "ideas stage". It was announced in February 2013 that the film, directed by Shawn Levy, would be released on December 25, 2014. On September 10, 2013, it was announced that shooting would start in February 2014.</p> <p>On November 8, 2013, actor Dan Stevens was cast as Lancelot. On November 15, 2013, it was announced Skyler Gisondo would be replacing Jake Cherry in the role of Nicky Daley. On December 18, 2013, it was announced that Stiller, Robin Williams and Ricky Gervais would be returning for the sequel. On January 9, 2014, it was announced that Rebel Wilson would play a security guard in the British Museum. On January 14, 2014, the film's release date was moved up from December 25, 2014, to December 19, 2014. On January 23, 2014, it was announced Ben Kingsley would play an Egyptian Pharaoh at the British Museum. Principal photography and production began on January 27, 2014. On May 6, 2014, it was announced that the film would be titled <i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i>. In May 2014, principal photography ended.</p> <h2><span id="Music">Music</span></h2><br><img alt="Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Official Trailer #1 (2014 ... - Jul 31, 2014 ... Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Ben ... wildest and most adventure-filled Night at the Museum ever as Larry ..." src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/KMKk7Dn__-Y/maxresdefault.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb - Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Official Trailer #1 (2014 ..."><br> <p>Alan Silvestri returns to score the final instalment of the trilogy.</p> <h3><span id="Track_listing">Track listing</span></h3> <p>Varese Sarabande released a soundtrack album of the score on January 6, 2015.</p> <p>All songs written and composed by Alan Silvestri. </p> <h2><span id="Release">Release</span></h2><br><br> <p>The film premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on December 11, 2014. It was then released on December 19, 2014 in the United States.</p> <h3><span id="Box_office">Box office</span></h3> <p>As of 7 May 2015, <i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i> had grossed $113.6 million in North America, and $246.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $360.2 million against a budget of $127 million.</p> <dl><dt>North America</dt> </dl><p>The film was released in North America on December 19, 2014 across 3,785 theatres. Early analysts and projectors predicted that the film could earn $25 - $28 million in its opening weekend. On its opening day, the film earned $5.6 million placing at number three at the box office. The film underperformed expectations during its opening weekend earning $17.1 million which was relatively lower than the openings of the original film ($30 million) and its sequel ($54.1 million) and debuted at #2 behind Warner Bros' <i>The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies</i>. According to 20th Century Fox, the movie's audience was evenly split between male with 51% and 54% under the age of 25. In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave <i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i> an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. Fox distribution chief Chris Aronson cited that the reason was attributed to the downtrum of the box office but suggested that the film would be able to pick up steam as young students get out of school.</p> <dl><dt>Other territories</dt> </dl><p>The film began its international rollout the same weekend as the North American premiere and earned $10.4 million from 27 markets in its opening weekend debuting at #3 behind at the box office behind <i>The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies</i> and <i>Penguins of Madagascar</i>. Deadline.com however reported a different opening of $10.93 million from 29 international markets. Nevertheless the film would still peak at #3 going with any of the two figures. The film expanded to an additional 40 markets in its second week and grossed $31.2 million. It topped the box office outside North America in its fourth weekend with a total gross of $46.2 million with the exceptional help from China where it opened at #1 with $26 million.</p> <p>The highest openings came from Mexico ($5.85 million), Brazil ($3.1 million), Malaysia ($3.07 million), the UK ($3 million), Australia ($2.8 million), Germany ($2.1 million) and Singapore ($2 million).</p> <p>For the weekend of January 16, 2015, the film grossed $17.8 million, which includes a $3.9 million debut in South Korea.</p> <h3><span id="Critical_response">Critical response</span></h3> <p>Like its two predecessors, <i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i> has received mixed reviews from critics (but better received). On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 50% approval rating, based on 100 reviews, with an average score of 5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "While not without its moments, <i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i> is a less-than-inspired sendoff for the trilogy." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 47 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews" from critics.</p> <p>Scott Foundas of <i>Variety</i> gave the film a positive review praising the visual effects, calling the production values "topnotch", and admiring Guillermo Navarro's work. He added, "A most enjoyable capper to director Shawn Levy and producer Chris Columbus’ cheerfully silly and sneakily smart family-entertainment juggernaut... offers little in the way of secrets of surprises, but should add much holiday cheer to Fox’s box-office coffers." Peter Bradshaw of <i>The Guardian</i> gave the film three stars out of five and said, "The third part in what absolutely no one is calling the <i>Night at the Museum</i> 'trilogy' turns out to be a good-natured and entertainingly surreal panto fantasy." Glenn Kenny awarded the film 2½ stars out of 4 praising the <i>Indiana Jones</i> themed-set while criticizing the performances of the cast and said, "As talent-packed as any <i>Night at the Museum</i> picture may beâ€"in this third installment... â€"one doesn’t come to a movie of this sort expecting anybody’s best work. Or at least one certainly shouldn’t, because it won’t materialize." Stephanie Zacharek of <i>The Village Voice</i> gave the film a positive review, saying "The third installment, <i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i> may be the best, and even the generally wound-too-tight Ben Stiller - once again playing a bemused Museum of Natural History guard - is easy to tolerate." Claudia Puig of <i>USA Today</i> gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "Where the previous films felt frenetic and forced, this outing feels breezier, more enjoyable and less contrived." Joe Neumaier of the <i>New York Daily News</i> gave the film three out of five stars, saying "There's a serenity to museum visits, especially if it's a place you know and love. <i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i>, amazingly, recaptures that feeling in big-studio franchise form."</p> <p>Bill Goodykoontz of <i>The Arizona Republic</i> gave the film two out of five stars, saying "<i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i> is a rather lackluster affair, a cash grab that tries to aim a little higher but confuses sappy shortcuts with real emotion." Joe McGovern of <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> gave the film a B, saying "It's kind of fun, unembarrassingly, and not least of all because the people who made it look like they had a good time doing so." Tom Long of <i>The Detroit News</i> gave the film a B, saying "There are some key elements that make this <i>Night at the Museum</i> sequel work better than its predecessor." Stephen Whitty of the <i>Newark Star-Ledger</i> gave the film two out of four stars, saying "The exhibits in this <i>Night at the Museum</i> may still come to life nightly. But their latest movie stays stubbornly inert." Tom Russo of <i>The Boston Globe</i> gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "Seeing Ben Stiller, the late Robin Williams, and their magically roused gang together again, this time in London, is initially all about indulgent, nostalgic smiles rather than new wows. But then comes the movie’s exceptionally clever and fresh final act, which delivers genuine surprise along with many laughs." Robbie Collin of <i>The Daily Telegraph</i> gave the film three out of five stars, saying "The third <i>Night at the Museum</i> film starts strongly, with its heart in the past... It’s an exciting opening, and perhaps too exciting for the film’s own good. It’s hard not to be disappointed when the plot moves back to the present and settles into the time-honoured formula of digitised creatures running riot and famous people in fancy dress doing shtick." Michael Rechtshaffen of <i>The Hollywood Reporter</i> gave the film a negative review, saying "Despite relocating across the pond to the esteemed British Museum, the creaky <i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i> fails to capitalize on the comic potential provided by that change of venue."</p> <p>Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of <i>The A.V. Club</i> gave the film a C+, saying "<i>Secret of the Tomb</i> plays it as a source of corny jokes, pop-culture references, and father-son bonding moments. In other words, it’s exactly the kind of film that shouldn’t be expected to engage with its assorted bizarre subtexts â€" but what a movie it could be if it did." Sara Stewart of the <i>New York Post</i> gave the film two out of four stars, saying "For piquing kids’ interest in history and nature, you could do worse than this goofy Ben Stiller franchise. But its third installment is more meh than manic, too reliant on wide shots of the ragtag Museum of Natural History cohorts striding down corridors. You get the feeling returning director Shawn Levy is ready to hang it up." Richard Roeper of the <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> gave the film one and a half stars out of five, saying "The dialogue is schmaltzy and often painfully unfunny. The special effects are often so 1980s-bad, one wonders if it was a deliberate choice, to make the creepy visuals of sculptures dancing and paintings moving less frightening to young viewers. Time and again, terrific actors sink in the equivalent of cinematic quicksand, helpless against the sucking sound of this movie." Drew Hunt of Slant Magazine gave the film one out of four stars, saying "None of the entries in the <i>Night at the Museum</i> series could ever pass for high art, but a wealth of comedic talent gave the first two installments a madcap energy that somewhat forgave their childish premises. <i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i>, the third and supposedly final edition in the franchise, is nothing more than an uncomfortably transparent contractual obligation."</p> <h3><span id="Home_media">Home media</span></h3> <p><i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i> was released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 10, 2015.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li><span><span>Official website</span></span></li> <li><i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i> at the Internet Movie Database</li> <li><i>Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb</i> at Box Office Mojo</li> </ul></h2><br><br>

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<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vzxbyDdys76g7iQPyJR_97-S-HOKBbpmpFranN7r9j1TbKo4hDibTFzOjYU127CgZyanWOdLCmGpAm-DFpeMdRPbnL0NE0SXuv_V6_hyphenhyphenSGf4WtYmUNvUhRqnfMfPoYhi5QRbQlMoNHI/s1600/220px-Sues_skeleton-781873.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6152562051214091010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vzxbyDdys76g7iQPyJR_97-S-HOKBbpmpFranN7r9j1TbKo4hDibTFzOjYU127CgZyanWOdLCmGpAm-DFpeMdRPbnL0NE0SXuv_V6_hyphenhyphenSGf4WtYmUNvUhRqnfMfPoYhi5QRbQlMoNHI/s320/220px-Sues_skeleton-781873.jpg" /></a></p><p><b>"Sue"</b> is the nickname given to <b>FMNH PR 2081</b>, which is the largest, most extensive and best preserved <i>Tyrannosaurus rex</i> specimen ever found. It has a length of 12.3 metres (40 ft), stands 4 metres (13 ft) tall at the hips, and was estimated to have weighed more than 6.4 metric tons when alive. It was discovered in the summer of 1990 by Sue Hendrickson, a paleontologist, and was named after her. After ownership disputes were settled, the fossil was auctioned in October 1997 for US $8.36 million, the highest amount ever paid for a dinosaur fossil, and is now a permanent feature at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Discovery">Discovery</span></h2><br><img alt="SUE the T. rex | The Field Museum - The world-famous fossil known as “Sue” is the largest, best-preserved, and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found. Sue measures 42 feet long from snout ..." src="http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sites/default/files/styles/2x1_800w/public/mrobinson/2014/08/12/01_sue.jpg?itok=F-SgIDvV" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Sue (dinosaur) - SUE the T. rex | The Field Museum"><br> <p>During the summer of 1990, a group of workers from the Black Hills Institute, located in Hill City, searched for fossils at the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, in western South Dakota near the city of Faith. By the end of the summer, the group had discovered <i>Edmontosaurus</i> bones and was ready to leave. However, before the group could depart, on August 12, a tire on their truck was deflated. While the rest of the group went into town to repair the truck, Sue Hendrickson decided to explore the nearby cliffs that the group had not checked. As she was walking along the base of a cliff, she discovered some small pieces of bone. She looked above her to see where the bones had originated, and observed larger bones protruding from the wall of the cliff. She returned to camp with two small pieces of the bones and reported the discovery to the president of the Black Hills Institute, Peter Larson. He determined that the bones were from a <i>T. rex</i> by their distinctive contour and texture. Later, closer examination of the site showed many visible bones above the ground and some articulated vertebrae. The crew ordered extra plaster and, although some of the crew had to depart, Hendrickson and a few other workers began to uncover the bones. The group was excited, as it was evident that much of the dinosaur had been preserved. Previously discovered <i>T. rex</i> skeletons were usually missing over half of their bones. It was later ascertained that Sue was a record 80 percent complete. Scientists believe that this specimen was covered by water and mud soon after its death which prevented other animals from carrying away the bones. Additionally, the rushing water mixed the skeleton together. When the fossil was found, the hip bones were above the skull, and the leg bones were intertwined with the ribs. The large size and the excellent condition of the bones were also surprising. The skull was nearly five feet long, and most of the teeth were still intact. After the group completed excavating the bones, each vertebra was covered in burlap and coated in plaster, followed by a transfer to the offices of The Black Hills Institute where preparators began to clean the bones.</p> <h2><span id="Dispute_and_auction">Dispute and auction</span></h2><br><img alt="Sue (dinosaur) - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - " title="Sue (dinosaur) - Sue (dinosaur) - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"><br> <p>Soon after the remains were found, a dispute arose over who was the legal owner of the bones. The Black Hills Institute had obtained permission from the owner of the land, Maurice Williams, to excavate and remove the skeleton, and had, according to Larson, paid Williams <span>US$5,000</span> for the remains. But Williams later claimed that the money had not been for the sale of the fossil and that he had only allowed Larson to remove and clean the fossil for a later sale. Williams, however, was a member of the Sioux tribe, and the tribe claimed the bones belonged to them. However, the property that the fossil had been found within was held in trust by the United States Department of the Interior. Thus, the land technically belonged to the government. In 1992, the FBI and the National Guard raided the site where The Black Hills Institute had been cleaning the bones and seized the fossil. The government transferred the remains to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where it was stored until the legal dispute was settled. After a lengthy trial, the court decreed that Maurice Williams retained ownership, and the remains were returned in 1995. Williams then decided to sell the remains, and contracted with Sotheby's to auction the property. Many were then worried that the fossil would end up in a private collection where people would not be able to observe it. The Field Museum in Chicago was also concerned about this possibility, and decided to attempt to purchase Sue. However, the organization realized that they might have had difficulty securing funding and requested that companies and private citizens provide financial support. The California State University system, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, McDonald's, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and individual donors agreed to assist in purchasing Sue for The Field Museum. On October 4, 1997, the auction began at <span>US$500,000</span>; less than ten minutes later, The Field Museum had purchased the remains with the highest bid of <span>US$7.6 million</span>. The final cost after Sotheby's commission was <span>US$8,362,500</span>.</p> <h2><span id="Preparation">Preparation</span></h2><br><img alt="A T. rex Named Sue | The Field Museum - No dinosaur in the world compares to SUEâ€" the="" title="Sue (dinosaur) - A T. rex Named Sue | The Field Museum"><br> <p>The Field Museum hired a specialized moving company, with experience in transporting delicate items, to move the bones to Chicago. The truck arrived at the museum in October 1997. Two new research laboratories funded by McDonald's were created and staffed by Field Museum preparators whose job was to slowly and carefully remove all the rock, or "matrix" from the bones. One preparation lab was at Field Museum itself, the other was at the newly opened Animal Kingdom in Disney World in Orlando. Millions of visitors observed the preparation of Sue's bones through glass windows in both labs. Footage of the work was also put on the museum's website. Several of the fossil's bones had never been discovered, so preparators produced models of the missing bones from plastic to complete the exhibit. The modeled bones were colored in a reddish hue so that visitors could observe which bones were real and which bones were plastic. The preparators also poured molds of each bone. All the molds were sent to a company outside Toronto to be cast in hollow plastic. Field Museum kept one set of disarticulated casts in its research collection. The other sets were incorporated into mounted cast skeletons. One set of the casts was sent to Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida to be presented for public display. Two other mounted casts were placed into a traveling tour that was sponsored by the McDonald's Corporation.</p> <p>Once the preparators finished removing the matrix from each bone, it was sent to the museum's photographer who made high-quality photographs. From there, the museum's paleontologists began the study of the skeleton. In addition to photographing and studying each bone, the research staff also arranged for CT scanning of select bones. The skull was too large to fit into a medical CT scanner, so Boeing's Rocketdyne laboratory in California agreed to let the museum use their CT scanner that was normally used to inspect space shuttle parts.</p> <h3><span id="Bone_damage">Bone damage</span></h3> <p>Close examination of the bones revealed that Sue was 28 years old when she died, making her the oldest <i>T. rex</i> known. Her PBS Nova episode reported she died in a seasonal stream bed, which washed away some small bones. During her life, this carnivore received several injuries and suffered from numerous pathologies. An injury to the right shoulder region of Sue resulted in a damaged shoulder blade, a torn tendon in the right arm, and three broken ribs. This damage subsequently healed (though one rib healed into two separate pieces), indicating Sue survived the incident. The left fibula is twice the diameter of the right one, likely a result of infection. Original reports of this bone being broken were contradicted by the CT scans which showed no fracture. Multiple holes in the front of the skull were originally thought to be bite marks by some, but subsequent study found these to be areas of infection instead, possibly from an infestation of an ancestral form of <i>Trichomonas gallinae</i>, a protozoan parasite that infests birds. Damage to the back end of the skull was interpreted early on as a fatal bite wound. Subsequent study by Field Museum paleontologists found no bite marks. The distortion and breakage seen in some of the bones in the back of the skull was likely caused by post-mortem trampling. Some of the tail vertebrae are fused in a pattern typical of arthritis due to injury. The animal is also believed to have suffered from gout. In addition, there is an extra bone in some of the tail vertebrae likely caused by the stresses brought on by Sue's great size. Sue did not die as a result of any of these injuries; her cause of death is unknown.</p> <p>Sue's tendon avulsion was likely caused by contact with struggling prey.</p> <h3><span id="Display">Display</span></h3> <p>After the bones were prepared, photographed and studied, they were sent to New Jersey where work began on making the mount. This work consists of bending steel to support each bone safely and to display the entire skeleton articulated as it was in life. The real skull was not incorporated into the mount as subsequent study would be difficult with the head 13 feet off the ground. Parts of the skull had been crushed and broken, and thus appeared distorted. The museum made a cast of the skull, and altered this cast to remove the distortions, thus approximating what the original undistorted skull may have looked like. The cast skull was also lighter, allowing it to be displayed on the mount without the use of a steel upright under the head. The original skull is exhibited in a case that can be opened to allow researchers access for study. When the whole skeleton was assembled, it was forty two feet (twelve meters) long from nose to tail, and twelve feet (four meters) tall at the hips.</p> <p>The Sue exhibit opened on May 17, 2000, with more than 10,000 visitors. Paleoartist John Gurche painted a mural of a <i>Tyrannosaurus</i> for the exhibit.</p> <p>Sue has a length of 12.3 metres (40 ft), stands 4 metres (13 ft) tall at the hips, and was between 9.5â€"18.5 metric tons (10.5â€"20.4 short tons), though the authors stated that their upper and lower estimates were based on models with wide error bars and that they "consider them to be too skinny, too fat, or too disproportionate"(line came from Tyrannosaurus. Other estimates were 6.1â€"9.5 metric tons (6.7â€"10.5 short tons) and 8.4 t (9.3 short tons).</p> <h2><span id="In_the_media">In the media</span></h2><br><img alt="When the feds seized a T-Rex - CNN.com - Dec 22, 2014 ... It was the find of Peter Larson's lifetime: a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton nicknamed " title="Sue (dinosaur) - When the feds seized a T-Rex - CNN.com"><br> <p>Director Todd Miller's documentary <i>Dinosaur 13</i>, which is about Sue's discovery and subsequent legal actions, appeared at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.</p> <p>In Jim Butcher's novel <i>Dead Beat</i>, protagonist Harry Dresden raises Sue from the dead and uses her as a steed during part of the final battle of the book.</p> <p>In Richard Polsky's nonfiction book <i>Boneheads: My Search for T. Rex</i>, Polsky travels to Faith, South Dakota, and meets with Peter Larson and Maurice Williams to write about the search, discovery, and legal battle over Sue, and to search for another <i>T.rex</i> on Williams's ranch.</p> <p>The children's computer game <i>I See Sue</i> engages children in the lives of the dinosaurs. They play a turn-based tile-match board game for the reward of seeing Sue. The game was published by Simon and Schuster Interactive and created by GamesThatWork under the guidance of Field Museum.</p> <p>The fantasy/promotional web series <i>Lil BUB’s Big SHOW</i> included a Halloween-based episode where cat host Lil Bub pays a visit to the Field Museum, checking the animal exhibits there. After Lil Bub notices Sue, she becomes infatuated with Sue's perfection as a T-Rex skeleton. Sue later calls in Lil Bub at her studio, and instantly turns Lil Bub's infatuation to horror when Sue reveals its fondness for eating cats.</p> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Black Beauty (dinosaur)</li> <li>Jane (dinosaur)</li> <li>Peck's Rex</li> <li>Specimens of Tyrannosaurus</li> <li>Timeline of tyrannosaur research</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Sue on Twitter</li> <li>Sue at The Field Museum</li> <li>The Story of a Dinosaur Named SUE. Black Hills Institute of Geological Research</li> <li>Dinosaurs: They Certainly Were Big Humorous educational video about the dinosaur basics featuring Sue, and personally praised by paleontologist Sue Hendrickson [1].</li> <li>Volkan Yuksel's crosseyed 3D stereoview of Sue</li> </ul></h2><br><br>

Sue (dinosaur) - Sue Field Museum

"Sue" is the nickname given to FMNH PR 2081 , which is the largest, most extensive and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen...

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