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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
well we made it and philadelphia is AMAZING da flight frm NZ to LA went supa quick.. probs coz we were sooo tired then cleared customs really quick which was great D cept then we had to wait for like 9 hours in LA airport.. nt so fun. and then our plane was delayed for another hour and a bit.. so dat really wasn't fun bt then we finally got to NY.. whoop had sum breakie at a truck stop
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I-Am-Bored.com Latest Links (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Itand#8217;s a museum of medical oddities. They have many exhibits of conjoined twins...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
places that are genuinely creepy, from a dive site among WWII wrecks in Micronesia to a tour through the eerie, abandoned town near Chernobyl in the Ukraine.
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P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
A contribution by Eric Hunting: “There aren’t a lot of good media-based models of a Post-Industrial culture and those that do exist tend to be set in a pretty depressing context. (James Howard Kunstler’s World Made By Hand, for instance) But I also think that the upper-classes no longer represent a model as they once did [...]
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Elisabeth C. Booth, 87, of Gladwyne, an aficionado of history who founded the docent program at the Mutter Museum, was a guide at Eastern State Penitentiary, and lectured at the Art Museum, died of congestive heart failure last Friday at Waverly Heights in Gladwyne, where she had lived for four years. She had been a longtime resident of Haddonfield.
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TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
(TrendHunter.com) The Mütter Museum, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a medical museum which houses medical oddities, wax models, antique equipment, and memorabilia of famous scientists and physicians. The Museum’s…
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Banks will fail, as we've been reminded a little too often lately. But their buildings can still go on to lead long and productive lives, especially when they're constructed to weather more than a passing financial storm.
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Phantasmaphile (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
My article about US shops and museums with a wunderkammern aesthetic is up on MSN City Guides today (welcome, MSN readers!), so please do give it a read - it was glorious fun to write about. For those of you...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Charles M. Norris, 93, former head of the department of bronchoesophagology and laryngology and the Chevalier Jackson-Norris Clinic, both at Temple University Hospital, died of prostate cancer Aug. 21 at Cathedral Village in Roxborough. He was a longtime resident of Chestnut Hill.
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Healthbolt (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
From stomach sized hairballs to a giant hamster wheel for energetic patients, medical museums offer a chance to explore medicines colorful history and discover the bizarre, the offbeat, and the extreme treatments of days gone by. So if you’re on the road this summer and don’t mind a little ’shock and gore’, stop by a medical [...]
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
A roundup of unusual hotel packages that celebrate attractions ranging from quirky to outright creepy—think circus memorabilia, urban ghost stories, and the real-life Exorcist House.
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
From the Ventriloquist Museum, in Fort Mitchell, Ky., to the Toilet Museum in New Delhi, the world's weirdest museums and collections.
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Memoirs of a Skepchick (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Hello again, darling Skepchick readers! The long holiday weekend allowed me to take off for the rolling farmlands of my South Jersey home, but sadly interfered with my usual Friday posting of the Comment o’ the Week. With that in mind, I give you a Very Special Monday Edition of CotW. There were a lot of [...]
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peterme.com (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
This is comparatively old webernet news, but I finally saw these Japanese anatomy scrolls, and as a fan of macabre medical illustrations (I loves me my Mütter Museum), they’re quite compelling. (The blog post in turn links to the original files on a Japanese website.)
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Philadelphia Will Do (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Philly.com's current previous front is devoted to Karen Heller's column on cheesesteaks. Heller's column is mostly a recap of the recent hilarious Internet drama-style cheesesteak war in City Council, but veers off at the end into a discussion about...
