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Based on my experience as a circus clown and a historian of performance, I have identified six eras that illustrate how clowns have been central to the circus
Angel Island Immigration Station was built in 1910 in the San Francisco Bay mainly to process immigrants from China, Japan, and other countries on the Pacific Rim.
In 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt’s African expedition collected thousands of plant and animal specimens, along with important cultural artifacts.
This year marks the hundred and fifth anniversary of the twenty-sixth president’s expedition to Kenya and eastern Africa, where he traveled and hunted big game with three Smithsonian scientists and his son Kermit Roosevelt
Longtime Festival volunteer Robert Scow shares this video he produced of Jon Vrana’s interpretation of Senator Justin Morrill at the 2012 Festival
May 15, 2012 marks the exact 150th anniversary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Do you know where famous record label founder Berry Gordy came up with the name for Motown Records?
R&B bandleader, producer, promoter, songwriter, disk jockey, author, talent scout, and label owner, Johnny Otis has been called the "Godfather of Rhythm and Blues,"
In 1948, Jerry Wexler, a music journalist for Billboard magazine, coined the term "rhythm and blues."
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