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>> A major traveling exhibition hits D.C. this week: National Geographic hosts this leg of the Terra Cotta Warriors tour. Over 100 artifacts are on display from the 2000-year-old sculpted army that guarded China's First Emperor from any dangers as ...

From HEATHER GOSS, DCist,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Geographic,  Twitter Inc

Look Up: What's in the Sky This Week?

By the way, I'm reporting this week's space news directly from the motherland: Cape Canaveral. NASA is holding its fourth "tweetup" this weekend; the first three were at their headquarters in D.C., featuring meet and greets with astronauts who had ...

From HEATHER GOSS, DCist,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NASA TV,  Twitter Inc,  Miles O'Brien

Inside the U.S. Naval Observatory

Geoff Chester, a walking history book who's been with the USNO Public Affairs office for 12 years, leads each tour in three parts: observing through the telescope (weather permitting), USNO's mission and history, and "Geoff's Brief History of Time" – a ...

From HEATHER GOSS, DCist,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Garmin Ltd.

Ask DCist: What's Up with the Naval Clock?

A couple of different readers have written us to ask why the Master Clock at 34th Street and Massachusetts Ave NW, at the entrance of the U.S. Naval Observatory, hasn't been working for the last few months. We asked Geoff Chester at the USNO Public ...

From HEATHER GOSS, DCist,  13 Oct 2009

Edward Burtynsky's Oil @ The Corcoran Gallery of Art

Edward Burtynsky, "SOCAR Oil Fields #3, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006," Chromogenic color print. Copyright the artist, courtesy Nicholas Metiveir Gallery, Toronto and Corcoran Gallery of Art. "How do you photograph something you can't see?," was the question ...

From HEATHER GOSS, DCist,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Edward Burtynsky

See DCHenge at Sunset Tonight

You tell us this now???? DCHenge! Where the demons dwell Where the banshees live and they do live well The sun will set around 270 degrees (due west) for a couple more days -- maybe I'll try this on Friday. DCist is a website about Washington, D.C. ...

From HEATHER GOSS, DCist,  23 Sep 2009

Photo of the Day: August 31, 2009

Sometimes the best part of having all these photogenic monuments in the city isn't the monuments themselves, but all the random folk who come out to do photo shoots by them. Weddings parties, fashion models, tourists from Oklahoma – all of them line up ...

From HEATHER GOSS, DCist,  31 Aug 2009

Tropical Storm Danny Making its Way North

Hurricane Bill may have kicked off the 2009 storm season down south, but it looks like Tropical Storm Danny will be the first storm to pay us a little visit this year. The graphic above from the National Weather Service shows Danny making its way up ...

From HEATHER GOSS, DCist,  26 Aug 2009

Related Topics: National Weather Service

Preview: Public Observatory @ National Air and Space Museum

Dome installation on the Public Observatory () The has had quite the year so far. Last month they were visited by astronaut heroes from the beginning of the space race all the way through the latest space shuttle missions; they've continued to build ...

From HEATHER GOSS, DCist,  10 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University

Go Home Already: Calm Before the Swarm

>> Start making those reservations: the Going Out Gurus got the tip that the next D.C. Restuarant Week will be August 24 to 30. The not-yet-updated RW site is here. >> The last of 16 defendants in the Fairfax "heroin ring" case was sentenced today. ...

From HEATHER GOSS, DCist,  24 Jul 2009

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