Quotes About National Museum

My brother still lives in the house my parents owned in Fairborn. I go back there a lot to visit friends and keep my connection to the National Museum of the Air Force and my membership with the Dayton Engineers Club.

If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally tens of tons of fossils, and most of them would be elephants and rhinos and hippopotamus and monkeys and giraffes and antelopes and so on. Hominids are very rare in the landscape, and it's very rare to find them.

During the postwar occupation, many of MacArthur's policies reinforced and abetted the collective amnesia of the Japanese. By order of the supreme commander, there was no concerted public effort to preserve the history or memory of the war—no monuments, no references in school textbooks, no national museum.

Legend has it that one of the earlier kings had it designed for his cousin's bride. It was part of a collection in the national museum until it was stolen. There have been replicas floating around for years." "I didn't know it had such history attached to it. That's fascinating," Ella murmured, eyes twinkling as she studied the necklace. "I'll have to look into it some more when I get home.

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

Once they have actually left office, we seem to grow fonder of our ex-presidents - and they of each other. That's why so many sighed in approval at Michelle Obama's public display of affection with George W. Bush at last month's dedication of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.