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Scenes and sightings from Smithsonian museums and beyond


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A webcomic from the writer of "This is Indexed"


April 2, 2007

Statue of Liberty-West

Some fresh ridiculousness greeted me with my morning scan of the newspapers on Sunday. A former media mogul is proposing a plan for a monument to humanity, a bronze twice a tall as Niagara Falls.

The monument would be accompanied by a “museum of human history,” and the project would be realized next to the Port of Long Beach, near the Queen Mary. Price tag? $250 million.  (More…)



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