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Smithsonian Opens Made-in-America Gift Shop
Posted By Press Release On June 8, 2011 @ 4:31 pm In Press Releases | No Comments Contact Michael Briggs (202) 224-5141 WASHINGTON, June 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today visited a National Museum of American History gift shop that was just restocked at his urging with all made-in-America merchandise. The Smithsonian Institution put all American products in the gift shop after Sanders questioned why the museum, which celebrates American history, sold busts of U.S. presidents and other items crafted in China and other countries. Sanders saw the Chinese-made U.S. presidential busts when he went to the Smithsonian late last year looking for Christmas presents for his grandchildren. “I love the Smithsonian’s…
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D-Day: June 6, 1944
D-Day. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 7:57, June 6, 2011, from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/d-day. [American Troops Landing on D-Day, Omaha Beach, Normandy Coast], 1944 Robert Capa (American, born Hungary, 1913–1954) Gelatin silver print Source:Robert Capa: [American Troops Landing on D-Day, Omaha Beach, Normandy Coast] (1987.1100.501) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art Although the term D-Day is used routinely as military lingo for the day an operation or event will take place, for many it is also synonymous with June 6, 1944, the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control…
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Rafael Nadal: The Master of Clay
By TOM PERROTTA ReutersRafael Nadal’s four-set victory over Roger Federer on Sunday in Paris gave him his sixth French Open championship. PARIS—Wasn’t this the French Open that was supposed to be different? Well, so much for that. It’s early June here and, as ever, Rafael Nadal is the French Open champion after a 7-5, 7-6(3), 5-7, 6-1 victory over Roger Federer. This was Nadal’s sixth title, a feat that puts him alongside Bjorn Borg, the only other man to win six times here, and above everyone else who has mastered the crushed red brick of Roland Garros. And there’s a strong case to be made that he has left Borg behind,…
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7.08 pm: RAFAEL NADAL WINS, SERVING OUT TO LOVE! WHAT A MATCH!
7.01 pm: Rafa is one game away. Roger fights like a lion to get back to deuce, but nets a backhand to hand Rafa a 5-1 lead. The Spaniard is on the verge of making history. 6.56 pm: Rafa holds to lead 4-1 with the game being won on a disputed call that the line judge allowed but which was way out. Pascal Maria overruled and Rafa is again just eight points short.
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Thousands Rally in Hong Kong for Human Rights
By ISABELLA STEGER in Hong Kong and PAUL MOZUR in Taiwan Huge crowds in Hong Kong turned out to commemorate the Tiananmen Square crackdown of June 4, 1989, amid concerns that the human rights situation in China has taken a turn for the worse in the past year.