Bonus Bananas May 25, 2012

Source: Wall Street Oasis

1) Strippers in Paris Go on Strike, Say Wages 'Miserable' (CNBC) - Quelle horreur! When I first heard this I couldn't believe it, but it's true. The girls shut down the Crazy Horse cabaret for the first time since it opened ...
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Seattle Center Playway is latest thing in 50th birthday celebration

Source: The Seattle Times

Seattle Center will be a focal point of fun this weekend, with Northwest Folklife Festival combined with the opening weekend for Seattle Center Playway. The Playway is the latest attraction at Next 50 Plaza celebrating ...
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Summer visual arts | Nelson's 'World's Fairs' beckons

Source: KansasCity.com

This summer, experience the pride of nations through their feats of creativity in furniture, glass, textiles, metalwork and more in the mega-exhibit “Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s ...
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Tour Queens via the 7 Subway

Source: About.com: Queens, NY

At the next stop you'll find the biggest, most popular destination in Queens: Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Site of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, Flushing Meadows is also the home of the US Open and the New York Mets baseball team. And it might ...
Full article at: About.com: Queens, NY  More like this  3 days ago, 6:02am CDT

1940 census data viewed as treasure trove by genealogists

Source: KnoxNews

- Today: Who we were 72 years ago — a Sevier County mountain girl; the family of war hero Alexander "Sandy" Bonnyman Jr.; Knoxville black pioneers - Tuesday: Victor Ashe's parents start a family; life at the Huntsville home where Howar ...
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Jade Doskow: The World's Fair Project: The Parks (PHOTOS)

Source: The Huffington Post

This is the s econd installment of my World's Fair Project as presented on the Huffington Post . In the first, I looked at some of the Fair architecture from the 1950's and 1960's, representatives of the world's cultural obse ...
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