Museum's original name?
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Wouldn't be the Scotland Yard Museum perhaps?  Just guessing.
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"When and how did New York City come to be called "The Big Apple'?"\nThis is by far the most frequently asked question submitted to our New York History Hotline.\n\nIn popular folklore, the name is usually traced to early jazz musicians or long-ago sports figures. Often, the explanation of the so-called "origin" of this phrase is accompanied with plausible-sounding historical or biographical details, giving it an unmistakable (but alas, totally spurious) "ring of truth."\n\nBecause this question continues to excite curiosity, and because the real facts are quite well known to serious historians, we provide the following authoritative account, based on our unique archival sources. The story may disappoint some readers -- truth, after all, is often less colorful than fiction. But facts are facts.\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIn the early years of the nineteenth century, refugees from war-torn Europe began arriving in New York in great numbers. Many were remnants of the crumbling French aristocracy, forced to seek refuge abroad from the dread "Monsieur Guillotine." Arriving here without funds or friends, many of these were forced to survive, as one contemporary put it, "by their wits or worse."\nOne of these, arriving in late 1803 or early 1804, was Mlle. Evelyn Claudine de Saint-Évremond. Daughter of a noted courtier, wit, and littérateur, and herself a favorite of Marie Antoinette, Evelyn was by all accounts remarkably attractive: beautiful, vivacious, and well-educated, and she was soon a society favorite. For reasons never disclosed, however, a planned marriage the following year to John Hamilton, son of the late Alexander Hamilton, was called off at the last minute. Soon after, with support from several highly placed admirers, she established a salon -- in fact, it appears to have been an elegantly furnished bordello -- in a substantial house that still stands at 142 Bond Street, then one of the city's most exclusive residential districts.\n\nEvelyn's establishment quickly won, and for several decades maintained, a formidable reputation as the most entertaining and discreet of the city's many "temples of love," a place not only for lovemaking, but also for elegant dinners, high-stakes gambling, and witty conversation. The girls, many of them fresh arrivals from Paris or London, were noted for their beauty and bearing. More than a few of them, apparently, were actually able to secure wealthy husbands from among the establishment's clientele.\n\nWhen New Yorkers insisted on anglicizing her name to "Eve," Evelyn apparently found the biblical reference highly amusing, and for her part would refer to the temptresses in her employ as "my irresistable apples." The young men-about-town soon got into the habit of referring to their amorous adventures as "having a taste of Eve's Apples." This knowing phrase established the speaker as one of the "in" crowd, and at the same time made it clear he had no need to visit one of the coarser establishments that crowded nearby Mercer Street, for instance. The enigmatic reference in Philip Hone's famous diary to "Ida, sweet as apple cider" (October 4, 1838) has been described as an oblique reference to a visit to what had by then become a notorious but cherished civic institution.\n\nThe rest, as they say, is etymological history.\n\nThe sexual connotation of the word "apple" was well known in New York and throughout the country until around World War I. The Gentleman's Directory of New York City, a privately published (1870) guide to the town's "houses of assignation," confidently asserted that "in freshness, sweetness, beauty, and firmness to the touch, New York's apples are superior to any in the New World or indeed the Old." Meanwhile, various &
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TEXAS TREASURES\nSam Houston's great-granddaughter to present\ncheerished Houston artifacts to Memorial Museum\n \nA collection of unique Sam Houston artifacts and family heirlooms, including a jeweled brooch presented to Houston by Santa Anna for sparing his life in the Battle of San Jacinto, will soon have a new home at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum. \n\nThese priceless Texas treasures, owned by Margaret Rost, Houston's great-granddaughter, will be presented to the museum on March 2, as part of a series of local Texas heritage celebrations commemorating Houston's birthday, Texas Independence Day, Texas Flag Day and Walker County Pioneer Day. \n\nRost and several family members will be honored guests at these historical celebrations which begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Gibbs-Powell House and include an 11 a.m. Houston gravesite ceremony, a 12:30 p.m. luncheon at the Walker Education Center, and a 2:30 p.m. "Toast to Texas" event at the Sam Houston Statue and Visitor's Center. \n\nThough the Rost collection will be presented to the museum on March 2, Patrick Nolan, museum director, said the artifacts will not be on display at the museum until they have been catalogued and thoroughly examined by museum curators. Other that the jeweled brooch, items in the collection include: \n\nAn American Indian purse, a watch and a green felt hat that belonged to the Texas hero; \nNumerous heirlooms including glass goblets and a coffee pot that matches the silver service already in the museum's collection; and \nA collection of Houston correspondences, many of which have never been published. \nThese historically significant items were inherited by Rost from her grandmother, Antoinette Power Houston, Sam Houston's youngest daughter. The gifts, Nolan said, "come to the museum through a strange and exciting set of circumstances." \n\nRost's grandmother, Antoinette, was born in Huntsville, in Houston's Woodland Home, during Houston's tenure as a U.S. Senator. "Nettie," as she was know in the family, was 11 years old when her father died in the now famous Steamboat House, also in Huntsville. Four years later, Antoinette's mother, Margaret Houston, died of yellow fever in Independence, Texas, and the orphaned daughter, along with the younger Houston siblings, moved in with her older sister, Nancy. At age 25, Antoinette married Dr. W.S.L. Bringhurst, who later became a classics professor at Texas A&M and was briefly the university's acting president. \n\nTragically, all but one of Antoinette's children died very young. Only one daughter, also named Antoinette, survived to adulthood. The younger Antoinette married and had one child, Margaret. By the 1930s, due to death and divorce, all three generations - Antoinette, her daughter Antoinette, and Margaret - were living together in San Antonio. \n\nOn a fateful day in March of 1932, the three women were traveling by automobile to Houston, Texas, to visit the elder Antoinette's ailing brother, Andrew Jackson Houston, the only other surviving child of Sam Houston. On the way they were involved in a serious accident that claimed the life of the older Antoinette and critically injured the younger Antoinette, who died two years later. \n\nAt age 13, the orphaned Margaret left Texas to live with family friends in Cincinnati, Ohio. She took with her the wonderful collection of family memorabilia and artifacts inherited from her grandmother. That collection, which has remained in her possession and includes many items never before seen by the public, will be turned over to the museum on March 2. \n\nNolan, and museum curator, Mac Woodward, recently traveled to Ohio to meet with Rost and take an initial inventory of the artifacts. Among the collection of Houston letters they found a correspondence that sheds light on one of the more interesting love stories of Texas history. According to Nolan, "when Sam Houston first came to
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I don't know of the one you mention, but I have photographs of one which was done in Durham (England) sometime in the 80's.\nI would be happy to send scans of them to you if you would like.
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City hall - ayuntamiento o palacio municipal\nGas station - gasolinera\nHardware (assuming it's a hardware store) - ferreteria o tlapaleria\nTrust me on these, I was raised in Mexico.  ;)
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Museum of Modern Art (great site!)\nhttp://www.moma.org/\n\n    *  That modern and contemporary art originated in the exploration of the ideals and interests generated in the new artistic traditions that began in the late nineteenth century and continue today.\n    * That modern and contemporary art transcend national boundaries and involve all forms of visual expression, including painting and sculpture, drawings, prints and illustrated books, photography, architecture and design, and film and video, as well as new forms yet to be developed or understood, that reflect and explore the artistic issues of the era.\n    * That these forms of visual expression are an open-ended series of arguments and counter arguments that can be explored through exhibitions and installations and that are reflected in the Museum's varied collection.\n    * That it is essential to affirm the importance of contemporary art and artists if the Museum is to honor the ideals with which it was founded and to remain vital and engaged with the present.\n    * That this commitment to contemporary art enlivens and informs our evolving understanding of the traditions of modern art.\n    * That to remain at the forefront of its field, the Museum must have an outstanding professional staff and must periodically reevaluate itself, responding to new ideas and initiatives with insight, imagination and intelligence. This process of reevaluation is mandated by the Museum's tradition, which encourages openness and a willingness to evolve and change.
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on the internet goto http://whowhere.com\nyou can type the name and find out lots of information there
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Yes. I'm not sure where it is, all I know is that it's a real school, =]
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There was a mine (or two) called Surrender. I'm guessing it comes from that. \n\nThe museum might help you\n\nSwaledale Museum, \nThe Green, \nReeth, \nRichmond, \nN-Yorks, \nDL11 6QT\n \n\n  \nE-mail:\n museum@swaledale.org\n \n\n  \nTelephone:\n (01748) 884118
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look on different web sites with the main name..
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Can you give us any information?  Where did you see the name?
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owHh hey..i think i know that school!! eRm..but sorry, dunno the address..why r u asking anywayz? nak masuk ker?\nhebatnyer!
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No, it is simply known as the California State Capitol Building.  An Annex to the building was added in 1947, so technically you could call the older main capitol building "The Old Capitol" and be correct.
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I've been to the Field Museum in Chicago which was really nice because it's right next to the Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium so you get to go to all three in one trip with very little walking and no trips back to the car. It was kinda small relatively speaking as far as museums go, but very interesting.
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I have a letter from them I just received yesterday (library fines!) Unique National Collections-119 E. Maple St, Jeffersonville, IN 47130  I put them in the search engine looking for a phone number.
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You could try googling the name.\nor try sites like http://www.whowhere.com/
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I just typed her name into yahoo and got this http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/destech/artfash/aa2a/html/yuen.htm\n\nIt may not be the right person but it's worth a try.