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Pondering Presidential Portraits on Election Day

Watch “Around the Mall” bloggers discover where the 43rd presidential portrait will go in the Hall of Presidents

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What’s Up This Week Around the Mall

“Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian” is a major two-city exhibition with shows opening concurrently in Washington, D.C. and NY

The Greensboro Woolworth's Lunch Counter, desegregated by a 1960 sit-in, anchors a wing of the renovated museum.

From the Castle: History Ahead

A renovated National Museum of American History opens up American history and culture to millions of visitors

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Fake Radio War Stirs Terror Through US: Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds turns 70

Seventy years ago, Orson Welles whipped millions of Americans into a martian-crazed panic with a radio play adaptation of H.G. Welles’ War of the Worlds

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Last-Minute Costume Ideas

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Doe (a Deer, a Female Deer) Born at the Zoo

An Eld’s Deer joins the National Zoo family

‘Women of Our Time’ at the Portrait Gallery

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery showcases the beauty of women in the twentieth century

Answers to Last Week’s Sesame Street Quiz

*SPOILER ALERT* We will be posting answers to our Sesame Street quiz throughout the week. Miss it? Check out our video before we spoil some of the fun

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Sesame Street Redux and Jim Henson’s Fantastic World

Watch “Around the Mall” bloggers sit down and talk with a few old friends from Sesame Street

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Given the “Green Light” to Create

Sarah Muehlbauer began sewing coaster-sized circles of wax paper together in her textile design course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Deep Sea 3-D: Even a Four-Eyes Can Have Fun

A review of Deep Sea 3-D by a 3-D movie skeptic

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