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		<title>Taste of New-York History: The Redhead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Taste of New-York History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Village]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maple Bacon Peanut Brittle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meg Grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Redhead]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How did The Redhead start? What was your goal behind it?
My partners bought an old jazz bar in the East Village with the goal of turning it into a neighborhood restaurant almost 7 years ago. I did not get involved until almost a year after they bought the place.]]></description>
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		<title>Taste of New-York History: Interview With Fiona of Papabubble</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/papabubble/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/papabubble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Taste of New-York History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barcelona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Grassi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiona Ryan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hard Candy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lower East Side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papabubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sugar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When did you discover that being a candy maker is what you wanted to do with your life?
When I realized it was an option! We had moved to Barcelona and our friends who started the company made that a reality.]]></description>
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		<title>Taste of New-York History: The Good Batch</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-good-batch/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-good-batch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Taste of New-York History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Gordon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cookies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dutch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stroopwafels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Good Batch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Good Batch is focused on making not-too-sweet treats like cookies, bars, and classic Dutch stroopwafels. We spoke with Anna about learning to bake, her love for Brooklyn, and why she won't compromise on making fresh products.]]></description>
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		<title>Taste of New-York History: Mast Bros. Chocolate</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/taste-of-new-york-history-mast-bros-chocolate/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/taste-of-new-york-history-mast-bros-chocolate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Taste of New-York History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chocolate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cocoa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mast Brothers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum Store]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How did you guys first get started with chocolate? What was the market missing that you wanted to provide?
We started really just out of a curiosity for how things were made and there was chocolate, one of the most popular foods on earth and no one really knows how it's made. And so it began!]]></description>
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		<title>Interview With Claire Yaffa, Photographer of Children With AIDS: Spirit and Memory</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/interview-with-claire-yaffa-photographer-of-children-with-aids-spirit-and-memory/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/interview-with-claire-yaffa-photographer-of-children-with-aids-spirit-and-memory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS in New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bronx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children with AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claire Yaffa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foundling Hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On June 7, AIDS in New York: The First Five Years opens at the New-York Historical Society. The new exhibit will explore the impact the epidemic had on personal lives, public health, and politics from 1981-1985. The companion exhibition Children With AIDS: Spirit and Memory. Photographs by Claire Yaffa will feature twenty photographs by the acclaimed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taste of New-York History: Interview With Brent Ridge of Beekman 1802</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/taste-of-new-york-history-interview-with-brent-ridge-of-beekman-1802/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/taste-of-new-york-history-interview-with-brent-ridge-of-beekman-1802/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Taste of New-York History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beekman 1802]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blaak Onion Jam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brent Ridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooking Channel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goat Cheese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Josh Kilmer-Purcell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum Store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recipe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Fabulous Beekman Boys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upstate New York]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Founded by partners Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell in 2008, this Sharon Springs, NY farm produces everything from goat cheese to soap to condiments. We spoke with Brent about learning to farm, their show The Fabulous Beekman Boys airing on the Cooking Channel, and getting Upstate New York the attention it deserves.]]></description>
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		<title>Interview With Maurita Baldock, Curator of Manuscripts</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/interview-with-maurita-baldock/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/interview-with-maurita-baldock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 04:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manuscripts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clara Harris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maurita Baldock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patricia d. klingenstein library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William H. Wells]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the New York Times took a look at the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, a group of young archivists, librarians, and historians who meet up and network around the city. One member featured was our very own Curator of Manuscripts, Maurita Baldock! But what exactly does that job entail? We sat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Of Your WWII Stories</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/more-of-your-wwii-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/more-of-your-wwii-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talk To Us]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII & NYC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of WWII &#38; NYC, there is a phone booth labeled “Talk to Us,” where visitors have been leaving their comments, questions, and personal stories of World War II. We&#8217;ve featured some of the stories here before, but amazing tales just keep coming! WWII &#38; NYC closes on May 27, so if you haven&#8217;t already, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taste of New-York History: Interview With Scott Ketchum of Sfoglini Pasta</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/taste-of-new-york-interview-with-scott-ketchum-of-sfoglini-pasta/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/taste-of-new-york-interview-with-scott-ketchum-of-sfoglini-pasta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Taste of New-York History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artisanal Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everything Bagel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friday Night Bites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum Store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pasta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recipe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sfoglini Pasta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tasting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sfoglini Pasta focuses on making freshly extruded pastas from local grains and ingredients, experimenting with new flavors like beet, nettle, and even everything bagel! We spoke to Sfoglini co-owner Scott Ketchum about making pasta, New York's food scene, and how best to cook their bagel pastas.]]></description>
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		<title>The Day Jackie Robinson Signed With The Dodgers</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/jackie-robinson/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/jackie-robinson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[42]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill shannon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill shannon biographical dictionary of new york sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn Dodgers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chock Full O'Nuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ebbets Field]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jackie Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mariano Rivera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MLB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Yankees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is everyone excited to see 42, the new film about Jackie Robinson? We definitely are, especially because 66 years ago today, Mr. Robinson officially signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers, and took to the field in an exhibition game against the Yankees! Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 and began his professional baseball [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duke Ellington Wants You To Buy War Bonds</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/duke-ellington-wants-you-to-buy-war-bonds/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/duke-ellington-wants-you-to-buy-war-bonds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[400 Restaurant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Brown and Beige]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duke Ellington WWII & NYC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I'm Beginning To See The Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seventh War Loan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Treasury Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Bonds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In April 1945 VE Day was on the horizon, but victory in the Pacific was still a ways away. In an effort to keep the American public buying War Bonds after victory in Europe, the US Treasury Department set up the &#8220;Mighty Seventh War Loan&#8221; drive. The slogan “Now—all together&#8221; as well as the central theme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audubon&#8217;s Work Becomes Feathering For Rats Nests</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/audubons-work-becomes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audubon's Aviary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John James Audubon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meiji Period]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wood Cut]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our current exhibition Audubon&#8217;s Aviary: Part 1 of the Complete Flock is now open, and everyone is loving the collection of original watercolors displayed throughout the second floor. But did you know that the exhibition also features some lesser-known Auduboniana? One of our favorites is this Meiji Period (approximately 1868-1912) woodcut depicting John James Audubon. Audubon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York&#8217;s First Jews Came From Brazil!</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/new-yorks-first-jews-came-from-brazil/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/new-yorks-first-jews-came-from-brazil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congregation Shearith Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dutch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Amsterdam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recife]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve noticed the matzoh displays in your grocery store, you&#8217;ll know that Passover is coming up soon. New York&#8217;s metropolitan area is home to the world&#8217;s largest Jewish population outside of Israel, beginning in 1654, when twenty-tree Jewish refugees established the Congregation Shearith Israel in New Amsterdam. It was the first Jewish congregation in North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day!</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/happy-st-patricks-day/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/happy-st-patricks-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ephemera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cigarette Silk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Flag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Rebellion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nebo Cigarettes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Patrick's Day Parade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wearing of the Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who&#8217;s ready for the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade?  New York City has longstanding Irish heritage, with the first known reference to any celebration of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day found in a 1756 issue of the New-York Post-Boy. The first reference to a parade was in a March 1766 New York Gazette. Then, homesick Irishmen serving in the British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Look At Some Of Our Favorite Vintage Food Toys</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/favorite-food-toys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Borden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Borden's Barn Boudoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elsie the Cow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedomland USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heinz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ketchup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Mayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pickle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weinermobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whistle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every kid remembers that magic moment of getting to the bottom of your cereal or Cracker Jack box and finding a prize. It could have been a plastic ring, or a puzzle, or a toy of a cartoon character. It was the best part of the morning. So here are a few of our favorite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacob Lawrence And WWII Integration</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/jacob-lawrence-and-wwii-integration/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/jacob-lawrence-and-wwii-integration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coat Guard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Combat Artist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frederick douglass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacob Lawrence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum of Modern Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Segregation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toussaint L'Ouverture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Whitney Museum of American Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII & NYC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1943 America was deep into WWII oversees, but was also fighting a battle of inequality. The &#8220;Double V&#8221; campaign waged by many African Americans insisted that if they were to be fighting for their country abroad, they deserved equal rights at home. The Red Cross was segregating blood, and troops were not allowed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Have All The Pigeons Gone?</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/where-have-all-the-pigeons-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/where-have-all-the-pigeons-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audubon's Aviary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extinction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hunting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John James Audubon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passenger Pigeon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pigeon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Passenger Pigeon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watercolor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New York City would be an entirely different place without our pigeons (AKA Rock Doves, Carrier Pigeons). But for hundreds of years, a different pigeon dominated America&#8217;s landscape. The Passenger Pigeon was once the most abundant bird on the North American continent, with estimates putting their population at three to five billion at their height. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From WWII to Hurricane Sandy: New-York Historical&#8217;s Public Service</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/from-wwii-to-hurricane-sandy-new-york-historical-public-service/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/from-wwii-to-hurricane-sandy-new-york-historical-public-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timothy Wroten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander J. Wall Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles T. Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Henry Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Takacs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historic House Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Sandy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Gymory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laidslaw Csierny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New-York Historical Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearl Harbor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Cross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surgical Sponges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upper west side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vincent J. Marshall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William R. Baillie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII & NYC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Pearl Harbor, New York mobilized for war, and the New-York Historical Society was no exception. As the city braced for possible enemy attack, the New-York Historical Society took precautions to protect the collection as its staff members departed for the Armed Forces and defense factories. Nine New-York Historical Society staff members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wounded Scout: Rogers Takes On The Gravity Of The Civil War</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/wounded-scout/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/wounded-scout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bronze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers: American Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libby Prison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wounded Scout]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of our upcoming exhibition, John Rogers: American Stories, curator Kim Orcutt will be writing a series of posts about his life, his work, and how he earned the nickname “The People’s Sculptor.” Watch Kim Orcutt and Harold Holzer tour the exhibition on YouTube.  Over the night of February 9/10, 1864, more than one hundred Union [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keith Haring Paper Lantern Installed In The Luce Center</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/keith-haring-lantern/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/keith-haring-lantern/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fran Rubel Kuzui]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graffiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaz Kuzui]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Haring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lantern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luce Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Shop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SoHo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Street Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Haring painted this Japanese paper lantern in 1988. Installed on Monday, it&#8217;s part of our latest rotation from the Keith Haring Foundation. This rotation, on view through June 2, focuses on Haring&#8217;s Pop Shop Tokyo project. On January 30, 1988, (25 years ago yesterday!) Keith Haring opened  the Pop Shop Tokyo, following the successful opening of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking Time</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/tracking-time/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/tracking-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Camilo Vergara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Segregation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Street Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dream Continues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and our new exhibition, The Dream Continues: Photographs of Martin Luther King Murals by Vergara, we present &#8220;Tracking Time,&#8221; written by photographer Camilo Vergara. Here, he speaks about his decades of documenting America&#8217;s poor urban communities, and how he became a &#8220;builder of virtual cities.&#8221;  For more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rogers and Rockwell</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/rogers-and-rockwell/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/rogers-and-rockwell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[April Fools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curiosity Shop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harold Holzer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers: American Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kimberly Orcutt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Norton Moffatt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norman Rockwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norman Rockwell Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rogers Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saturday Evening Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sculptures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of our upcoming exhibition, John Rogers: American Stories, curator Kim Orcutt will be writing a series of posts about his life, his work, and how he earned the nickname “The People’s Sculptor.” Watch Kim Orcutt and Harold Holzer tour the exhibition on YouTube.  The sculptor John Rogers is often compared to Norman Rockwell, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York&#8217;s Gilded Age, In The Spotlight Again</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/new-yorks-gilded-age/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/new-yorks-gilded-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty's Legacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Downton Abbey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilded Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Hazen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Fellowes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcel Duchamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pablo Picasso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Cezanne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Gaugin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progressive Era]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Armory Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Landmarks of New York]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It recently came to our attention that Julian Fellowes, creator of the BBC hit show Downton Abbey (what did everyone think of the third season premiere?), is setting his sights on New York&#8217;s Gilded Age for his next show. The Gilded Age was a remarkable time of growth in America, taking place roughly from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1939: John Rogers&#8217;s Comeback Year</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/1939-john-rogers-comeback/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/1939-john-rogers-comeback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1939]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calendar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comeback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers: American Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Populism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rogers Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travelers Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victorian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of our upcoming exhibition, John Rogers: American Stories, curator Kim Orcutt will be writing a series of posts about his life, his work, and how he earned the nickname “The People’s Sculptor.” In 1939, the Travelers Insurance Company rang in the New Year with a gift to its customers: a monthly calendar illustrated with Rogers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Matter The Reason, Celebration In Times Square</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/no-matter-the-reason-celebration-in-times-square/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/no-matter-the-reason-celebration-in-times-square/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paintings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Students League]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celebration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Delaney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Years]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surrender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Hart Benton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Times Square]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VJ Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII & NYC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a few days, thousands of people will brave the cold to ring in the new year in Times Square. The ball will drop, confetti will go up, couples will kiss, and there may be a celebratory drink or two. The mood in Times Square was much the same on VJ Day, which brought an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Stories of World War II</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/your-stories-of-world-war-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/your-stories-of-world-war-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Air Raid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearl Harbor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VE Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victory Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VJ Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII & NYC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of WWII &#38; NYC, there is a phone booth labeled &#8220;Talk to Us,&#8221; where visitors have been leaving their comments, questions, and personal stories of World War II. Some remember what it was like to serve, others what it was like to hide under their desks at school during air raids, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Rogers: An Abolitionist Alone at Christmas</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/john-rogers-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/john-rogers-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bronze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sculpture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slave Auction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of our upcoming exhibition, John Rogers: American Stories, curator Kim Orcutt will be writing a series of posts about his life, his work, and how he earned the nickname “The People’s Sculptor.” John Rogers couldn’t make it home to Roxbury, Massachusetts for Christmas in 1859. He had just settled in New York and was trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Red-Tailed Hawks, Skyscrapers Are Just Cliffs</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/for-red-tailed-hawks-skyscrapers-are-just-cliffs/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/for-red-tailed-hawks-skyscrapers-are-just-cliffs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audubon's Aviary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John James Audubon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pale Male]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red-tailed Hawk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watercolor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve mentioned before, John James Audubon often depicted the dark side of nature through birds of prey. His watercolor of two Red-Tailed Hawks shows two of the birds fighting over a fresh kill, a common sight in bird territory. However, many people assume that a bird&#8217;s habitat is a secluded forest or cliffside. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS And New York: An Epidemic of Fear</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/this-is-a-plague-aids-and-new-york/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/this-is-a-plague-aids-and-new-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACT UP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How To Survive a Plague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Haring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Kramer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TAG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United In Anger: A History of ACT UP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been over twenty years since the peak of the AIDS crisis, and evidence of activists&#8217; fight for recognition and action can still be found all around the city. People With AIDS plaza is located right outside City Hall. Thousands of people participate in the AIDS Walk every year in Central Park. Still, twenty years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rogers Groups, the Perfect Christmas Gift</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/buy-a-rogers-group-for-christmas-or-else/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/buy-a-rogers-group-for-christmas-or-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bronze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coming to the Parson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gifts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers: American Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playing Doctor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wounded to the Rear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of our upcoming exhibition, John Rogers: American Stories, curator Kim Orcutt will be writing a series of posts about his life, his work, and how he earned the nickname “The People’s Sculptor.” If you were shopping for a Christmas present 150 years ago, you might have thought about a Rogers Group. The plaster sculptures on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Thanks For The First Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/give-thanks-for-the-first-thanksgiving/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/give-thanks-for-the-first-thanksgiving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puritans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving may have been celebrated by Pilgrims and Native Americans in New England with feasts of corn and eel (yes, eel), but it wasn’t until 1863 that it became a truly American holiday. Sarah Josepha Hale, author of the famous rhyme &#8220;Mary Had a Little Lamb,&#8221; was the first to suggest that Thanksgiving should be celebrated nationwide, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Historian Jonathan Brown Meets First Lady Michelle Obama</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/interview-with-jonathan-brown-student-historian/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/interview-with-jonathan-brown-student-historian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louise Mirrer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Student Historians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, November 19, the New-York Historical Society was honored with the 2012 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for its Student Historian program. Student Historian Jonathan Brown, a senior at Frederick Douglass Academy in New York City, accepted the award from First Lady Michelle Obama on behalf of the New-York Historical Society! We spoke with Jonathan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Trains Got From The Rails To Our Toy Chests</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/how-trains-got-from-the-rails-to-our-toy-chests/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/how-trains-got-from-the-rails-to-our-toy-chests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Express]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerni Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Greene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marklin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nina Greene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toy Trains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trains]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every child in America has probably played with a toy train at some point. But why do toy trains hold such sway over our imaginations? Miniature trains were first created as models to accompany proposals for new rail systems as the world entered the industrial revolution. As trains became more and more common, so did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bronze or Plaster? The Artistic Choices of John Rogers</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/bronze-john-rogers/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/bronze-john-rogers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 05:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bronze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers: American Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People's Sculptor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sculpture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of our upcoming exhibition, John Rogers: American Stories, curator Kim Orcutt will be writing a series of posts about his life, his work, and how he earned the nickname “The People’s Sculptor.” Bronze or plaster? When you’re in the galleries of John Rogers: American Stories, you’ll see that about half of the sculptures are bronze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protect Our Brassieres! WWII&#8217;s War On Lingerie</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/protect-our-brassieres-wwiis-war-on-lingerie/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/protect-our-brassieres-wwiis-war-on-lingerie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brassiere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homing Pigeons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maiden Form]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pigeon Vest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pigeons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signal Corps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Production Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WAVES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII & NYC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When World War II broke out, men and women were both expected to give their all to support the war effort. For many women, that meant joining the ranks of the WAVES or becoming a defense worker. Women all over the country went to work building planes, ships, and other supplies for the men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday John Rogers!</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/happy-birthday-john-rogers/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/happy-birthday-john-rogers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bronze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People's Sculptor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rogers Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sculpture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of our upcoming exhibition, John Rogers: American Stories, curator Kim Orcutt will be writing a series of posts about his life, his work, and how he earned the nickname &#8220;The People&#8217;s Sculptor.&#8221; Happy Birthday John Rogers! The sculptor was born on October 30, 1829 and he is a favorite at the New- York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History On Your Google Streetview</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/history-on-your-google-streetview/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/history-on-your-google-streetview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn Navy Yard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google maps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historypin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WAVES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder what your neighborhood looked like 200 years ago? Wish you could see what historical events happened in your backyard? Well, Historypin is here to help. The website allows museums, historical and cultural organizations, libraries, and everyday people to tag images to a Google map, enabling visitors to &#8220;tour&#8221; the world through old photographs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Ed Koch Speaks At WWII &amp; NYC Opening Reception</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/mayor-ed-koch-speaks-at-wwii-nyc-opening-reception/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/mayor-ed-koch-speaks-at-wwii-nyc-opening-reception/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Koch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GI Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Levittown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayor Edward Koch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veterans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII & NYC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On October 2, former NYC Mayor Edward I. Koch (now of bridge fame) spoke at the opening reception for WWII &#38; NYC.  Having served in WWII, he recounted his memories of the war, and reminded the audience of the great, shared sacrifice thousands of Americans made. Below is his speech. I was 19 when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Lincoln&#8230;In Queens?</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/finding-lincoln-in-queens/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/finding-lincoln-in-queens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bronze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bundith Phunsombatlert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Sculpture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socrated Sculpture Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[studio eis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayfinding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend we took a trip to Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, Queens, where we encountered Bundith Phunsombatlert&#8217;s piece Wayfinding: 100 NYC Public Sculpture. The site-specific project features signs of 100 public sculptures in New York City, and provides the distance and direction to each from the park. And what did we see among the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What On Earth Is A Cyclotron?</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/what-on-earth-is-a-cyclotron/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/what-on-earth-is-a-cyclotron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert Einstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atomic Bomb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyclotron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.Robert Oppenheimer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manhattan Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Feynman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uranium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII & NYC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During World War II, the US, UK, and Canada teamed up for a research and development program to develop the first atomic bomb, which would be nicknamed the Manhattan Project. After word spread that one of Hitler&#8217;s scientists had split an atom of uranium (a process known as fission), the Allies began work on creating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan Surrenders! The Documents of V-J Day</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/japan-surrenders-the-documents-of-v-j-day/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/japan-surrenders-the-documents-of-v-j-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grand Central Terminal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surrender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[V-J Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victory Loan Train]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 2, 1945, the Japanese formally surrendered to the Allies, in a &#8220;twenty-minute ceremony which ended just as the sun burst through low-hanging clouds as a shining symbol to a ravaged world now done with war,&#8221; according to the New York Times.  &#8221;It is my earnest hope and indeed the hope of all mankind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Honoring 9/11 By Preserving Its Memory</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/video-honoring-911-by-preserving-its-memory/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/video-honoring-911-by-preserving-its-memory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[here is new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth T. Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louise Mirrer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Remembering 9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[September 11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Trade Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On September 11, 2001, most New Yorkers were not focused on the bigger picture of that day. They were walking home through crowded streets, finding their loved ones, and possibly reflecting on the irony of the beautiful weather. But others knew that years from then people would be looking back, wondering what that day felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hudson River School and the Idea of Recreation</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-hudson-river-school-and-the-idea-of-recreation/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-hudson-river-school-and-the-idea-of-recreation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asher B. Durand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catskills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hudson River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hudson River School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landscape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature and the American Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recreation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Cole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Americans take pride in nature. Despite our suburban sprawls and major urban centers, few places feel more &#8220;American&#8221; than our national parks. We boast a variety of landscapes, from forests to mountains to swamps, that have inspired whole industries of leisure-time activities, and plenty of American authors have devoted chapters to the restorative powers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keith Haring Creates for Kids!</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/keith-haring-and-children/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/keith-haring-and-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graffiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Haring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York is Book Country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Shop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radiant Baby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reading for Fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sesame Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Subway]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Haring and his art dealt with some very adult topics: AIDS, drugs, and Apartheid to name a few. But there was always whimsy in Haring&#8217;s work, which became even more evident as he turned his artistic attention toward children. &#8220;There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile,&#8221; noted Haring in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ken Follett Brings History Alive</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/ken-follett-brings-history-alive/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/ken-follett-brings-history-alive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Century Trilogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Osgood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fall of Giants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Follett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soviet Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter of the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWII & NYC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title of Ken Follett&#8217;s new book about life during World War II, Winter of the World, is quite literal. &#8220;The triumph of Stalin&#8217;s regime in the Soviet Union and Hitler&#8217;s regime in Central Europe was a bloody tragedy for the human race. The keynote of that whole period was the struggle against the worst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tragedy of Carl Mays And The Importance of Helmets</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-tragedy-of-carl-mays-and-the-importance-of-helmets/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-tragedy-of-carl-mays-and-the-importance-of-helmets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill shannon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill shannon biographical dictionary of new york sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Mays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helmets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MLB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Yankees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By all accounts, Carl Mays was a fantastic ballplayer. According to the the Bill Shannon Biographical Dictionary of New York Sports, he won &#8220;53 games in his first two full seasons with the Yankees.&#8221; However, his career was marred by a tragic incident that occurred August 16, 1920 (92 years ago today), when his pitch hit Cleveland shortstop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fashion of Beer: Miss Rheingold of 1956</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-fashion-of-beer-miss-rheingold-of-1956/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-fashion-of-beer-miss-rheingold-of-1956/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 05:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beer Here]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Douglas Fairbanks Jr.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillie Merritt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beer has a reputation as being a working man&#8217;s drink, but from 1940 to 1965 New York&#8217;s Rheingold Beer made their beer synonymous with elegance, beauty, and modernity. Their Miss Rheingold contest drew thousands of applicants each year, with the winner representing Rheingold in advertisements and personal appearances all year long. &#8220;According to corporate lore,&#8221; says CNN, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designing Beer</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/designing-beer/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/designing-beer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Here]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brianne Muscente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farm Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some exhibitions require a very straightforward design, where the objects tell their own story. Then there are exhibitions where the objects, stories and design need to come together to tell a story greater than the sum of their parts. Beer Here: Brewing New York&#8217;s History is one such exhibition. With everything from farm equipment to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories in Sterling: How Silver Tells New York&#8217;s History, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/stories-in-sterling-how-silver-tells-new-yorks-history-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/stories-in-sterling-how-silver-tells-new-yorks-history-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boss Tweed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[calcium carbonate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caudle cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiliaen Van Rensselaer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margi Hofer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories in Sterling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tammany Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tammany loving cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teapot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Grady]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, silver is beautiful to look at. But there&#8217;s a lot more to learn beneath that sparkle. Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York uncovers the stories behind the pieces, from the humble beginnings of a slave-made spoon to the ornate trophies of a corrupt political machine. In this two-part series, we speak with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories in Sterling: How Silver Tells New York&#8217;s History, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/silver/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/silver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[18th century wedding dress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beekman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boss Tweed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cigar box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DePeyster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbert Hoover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Hastier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loving cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayor George B. McClellan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sterling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tammany Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tammany Tiger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tankard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Grady]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Nast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, silver is beautiful to look at. But there&#8217;s a lot more to learn beneath that sparkle. Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York uncovers the stories behind the pieces, from the humble beginnings of a slave-made spoon to the ornate trophies of a corrupt political machine. In this two-part series, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genesee Brewing Brings History To Its Brew House</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/genesee/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/genesee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Here]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Tasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brew House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genesee Brewery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genny Cream Ale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim McDermott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rochester]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate our exhibition Beer Here: Brewing New York&#8217;s History, the New-York Historical Society is hosting a series of Saturday beer tastings run by local breweries in the exhibit&#8217;s Beer Hall. The program will run from May 26 through August 25; half-hour tastings will start at 2pm and 4pm. Not only will visitors get to taste some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D-Day Through The Eyes of Technical Sergeant Nick Tanis: What&#8217;s Your WWII Story?</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/d-day-through-the-eyes-of-technical-sergeant-nick-tannis-whats-your-wwii-story/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/d-day-through-the-eyes-of-technical-sergeant-nick-tannis-whats-your-wwii-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battle of the Bulge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D-Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fort Jay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[france]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nick Tannis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This October, the New-York Historical Society will present WWII &#38; NYC, a massive exhibition looking at the effect World War II had on the city. Fathers, husbands, and sons were shuttled overseas from New York&#8217;s ports, while mothers, wives, and daughters picked up the work the men left behind. WWII &#38; NYC features many firsthand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln: The Coolest President?</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/abraham-lincoln-the-coolest-president/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/abraham-lincoln-the-coolest-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 05:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooper Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flickr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gettysburg Address]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Treasure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seth Grahame-Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Trek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valerie Paley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you hadn&#8217;t heard, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has made its way to the big screen. Starring Benjamin Walker, it traces the President as he discovers that vampires are planning to take over the country, and as he makes it his mission to eliminate the threat. Recently, author, screenwriter, and producer Seth Grahame-Smith sat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s It Like Being Benjamin Franklin?</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/whats-it-like-being-benjamin-franklin/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/whats-it-like-being-benjamin-franklin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1776]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deborah Franklin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dewitt Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independence Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Sherry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Jay Homestead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[July 4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katonah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poor Richard's Almanac]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wanted to ask Ben Franklin about his infamous kite experiment? Or his time as the first United States Ambassador to France? Or maybe just how to play a good game of chess? The real founding father may be gone, but you might forget that while speaking to Jack Sherry, an American History teacher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Point Brewery Celebrates How Beer Used To Be Made</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/bluepoint-brewery-celebrates-how-beer-used-to-be-made/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/bluepoint-brewery-celebrates-how-beer-used-to-be-made/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Here]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Tastings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bluepoint Brewery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Long Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Burford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microbrewery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Cotter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Ale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate our exhibition Beer Here: Brewing New York&#8217;s History, the New-York Historical Society is hosting a series of Saturday beer tastings run by local breweries in the exhibit&#8217;s Beer Hall. The program will run from May 26 through August 25; half-hour tastings will start at 2pm and 4pm. Not only will visitors get to taste some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harlem Brewery: Homebrewing Inspires a Business</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/harlem-brewery-homebrewing-inspires-a-business/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/harlem-brewery-homebrewing-inspires-a-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Here]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celeste Beatty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harlem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harlem Brewery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prohibition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sugar Hill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate our exhibition Beer Here: Brewing New York&#8217;s History, the New-York Historical Society is hosting a series of Saturday beer tastings run by local breweries in the exhibit&#8217;s Beer Hall. The program will run from May 26 through August 25; half-hour tastings will start at 2pm and 4pm. Not only will visitors get to taste some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: A Concierge&#8217;s Look At The New-York Historical Society</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/globomaestro-video/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/globomaestro-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travel gurus GloboMaestro recently visited the New-York Historical Society, and it looks like they had a great time! Check out their video below, and tell us, what&#8217;s your favorite object at the New-York Historical Society?]]></description>
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		<title>Smallpox and Shaping Society, Part 3</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/smallpox-and-shaping-society-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/smallpox-and-shaping-society-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david rosner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epidemic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inoculation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vaccination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What does smallpox have to do with American history? According to David Rosner, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University, advisor to the exhibition BE SURE! BE SAFE! GET VACCINATED! Smallpox, Vaccination and Civil Liberties in New York, everything. In this three-part series, written by Rosner, we&#8217;ll take a look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brewing In The Bronx: The Resurgence Of New York&#8217;s Beer Traidition</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/brewing-in-the-bronx-the-resurgence-of-new-yorks-beer-traidition/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/brewing-in-the-bronx-the-resurgence-of-new-yorks-beer-traidition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 05:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bere Here: Brewing New York's History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bronx Brewery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn Brewery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pale Ale]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate our exhibition Beer Here: Brewing New York&#8217;s History, the New-York Historical Society is hosting a series of Saturday beer tastings run by local breweries in the exhibit&#8217;s Beer Hall. The program will run from May 26 through August 25; half-hour tastings will start at 2pm and 4pm. Not only will visitors get to taste some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smallpox and Shaping Society, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/smallpox-and-shaping-society-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/smallpox-and-shaping-society-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 05:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cholera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david rosner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epidemic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrialization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inoculation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Smallpox]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does smallpox have to do with American history? According to David Rosner, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University, advisor to the exhibition BE SURE! BE SAFE! GET VACCINATED! Smallpox, Vaccination and Civil Liberties in New York, everything. In this three-part series, written by Rosner, we&#8217;ll take a look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keegan Ales: Who Wants To Buy A Brewery?</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/keegan-ales/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/keegan-ales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beer Tasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brewing Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keegan Ales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingston]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate our exhibition Beer Here: Brewing New York&#8217;s History, the New-York Historical Society is hosting a series of Saturday beer tastings run by local breweries in the exhibit&#8217;s Beer Hall. The program will run from May 26 through August 25; half-hour tastings will start at 2pm and 4pm. Not only will visitors get to taste some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smallpox and Shaping Society, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/smallpox-and-shaping-society-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/smallpox-and-shaping-society-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 15:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[america]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[columbia university]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david rosner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inoculation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kine-pock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revolutionary War]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Valentine Seaman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What does smallpox have to do with American history? According to David Rosner, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University, advisor to the exhibition BE SURE! BE SAFE! GET VACCINATED! Smallpox, Vaccination and Civil Liberties in New York, everything. In this three-part series, written by Rosner, we&#8217;ll take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day: The Whole World is Watching</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/memorial-da/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/memorial-da/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 05:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confederacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Blight]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Memorial Day]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Race and Reunion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Memorial Day was first celebrated, America was learning to be America again. Over 600,000 soldiers had fallen over four years, fighting for the Union and the Confederacy, and the wounds had not yet healed. David Blight, author of Race and Reunion, wrote about the early memorials just after the Civil War in the New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harlem Then and Now: Interview With Camilo José Vergara</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/harlem-then-and-now-interview-with-camilo-jose-vergara/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/harlem-then-and-now-interview-with-camilo-jose-vergara/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abandonment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Camilo Jose Vergara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gentrification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harlem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morningside Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighborhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polo Grounds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spanish Harlem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Photographer Camilo José Vergara has been documenting the neighborhood of Harlem for nearly four decades, chronicling the changes, both good and bad, that have come to the area. Through his lens he has served as an almost impartial observer, cataloging storefronts and street corners as they open and close, letting the viewer see the changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matt Brewing Company, 150 Years and Counting</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/matt-brewing-company-150-years-and-counting/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/matt-brewing-company-150-years-and-counting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Here]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Tastings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ginger Ale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malt Tonic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Brewing Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prohibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saranac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utica Club]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate our exhibition Beer Here: Brewing New York&#8217;s History, the New-York Historical Society is hosting a series of Saturday beer tastings run by local breweries in the exhibit&#8217;s Beer Hall. The program will run from May 26 through August 25; half-hour tastings will start at 2pm and 4pm. Not only will visitors get to taste some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m Running This Train!&#8221;: Mayor McClellan And The First Subway Ride</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/mayor-george-b-mcclellan-and-the-first-subway-ride/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/mayor-george-b-mcclellan-and-the-first-subway-ride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 05:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Controller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Train]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harlem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayor George B. McClellan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MTA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rapid Transit Railroad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories in Sterling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you&#8217;re charged with taking a subway for a ride. Now imagine that subway was the first subway ever. A pretty daunting task! Mayor George B. McClellan had the honor of operating the first NYC subway train on October 27, 1904, and was pretty excited about it! The IRT had just opened, and McClellan was supposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Horror of Smallpox! Disease and Film Noir</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-horror-of-smallpox-disease-and-film-noir/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-horror-of-smallpox-disease-and-film-noir/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 05:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immunization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outbreak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelia Bennet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smallpox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Killer that Stalked New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaccination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw6F9O9FGco Diamond smuggling! Disease! Murder! These and more are the subject of the 1950 film noir The Killer That Stalked New York. The film follows Shelia Bennet, one of a diamond-smuggling couple who contracts the deadly disease in Cuba, and brings it to the city, slowly infecting everyone she encounters. Smallpox cases start popping up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty in Strength: The Athlete of the Marié Miniatures</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/beauty-in-strength-the-athlete-of-the-marie-miniatures/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/beauty-in-strength-the-athlete-of-the-marie-miniatures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paintings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America's Cup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Oliver Iselin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Hope Goddard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilded Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grand Duke Michael]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope Goddard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miniatures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Marie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sailing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to assume the women of high society in the Gilded Age did nothing more than sip champagne and attend parties with the rest of Mrs. Astor&#8217;s 400. But not every woman who counted herself among New York&#8217;s elite was content to just sit back and enjoy the party. Edith Hope Goddard was one woman who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring the Titanic, 100 Years Later</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/titanic/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/titanic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DCHM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Denenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carpahia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centennial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Medal of Honor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dimenna children's history museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iceberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portrait]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Arthur Henry Rostron]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Titanic Sinks!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 100 years ago, the RMS Titanic sank in the Atlantic after striking an iceberg. Over 1,500 died, and the event continues to serve as a cautionary tale of the dangers of overconfidence. There were many who risked their lives to save those on the sinking Titanic, including Sir Arthur Henry Rostron. Rostron was the  master of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Invisible Line Between White and Black</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/invisible-line/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/invisible-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ancestry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brent Staples]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[genealogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Crow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What defines race? Is it color? Is it DNA? Is it the labels you choose for yourself? In The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, author Daniel J. Sharfstein argues that it is becoming ever harder to view race neatly in black and white. He does so by looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pistol That Killed A Founding Father</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-pistol-that-killed-a-founding-father/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-pistol-that-killed-a-founding-father/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aaron Burr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Hamilton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Burstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ron Chernow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 11, 1804,  Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury and Aaron Burr, Vice President, rowed to Weehawken, NJ to participate in a duel. Longstanding bad blood between the two men—fueled by Burr&#8217;s taking a senate seat over Hamilton&#8217;s father-in-law and Hamilton&#8217;s defamation of Burr during the 1804 gubernatorial race—finally boiled over, and Hamilton agreed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Was Toussaint Louverture?</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/who-was-toussaint-louverture/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/who-was-toussaint-louverture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Declaration of Independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haitian Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-jacques Dessalines]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Brothers and friends, I am Toussaint Louverture; perhaps my name has made itself known to you. I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in St. Domingue. I am working to make that happen. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.&#8221; These words were spoken by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Tiny Stamps Trigger a Revolution?</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/can-tiny-stamps-trigger-a-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/can-tiny-stamps-trigger-a-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1765]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Timothy Wroten On March 22, 1765, The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, a direct tax imposed specifically on printed materials sold in the American colonies. News of the Stamp Act’s passage in 1765 ignited a firestorm from New Hampshire to Georgia (though apparently not in Britain’s Caribbean or Canadian domains). No one in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think Dirty Political Games Are New? Think Again</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/think-dirty-political-games-are-new-think-again/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/think-dirty-political-games-are-new-think-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buttons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clinton Gore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eleanor Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[New York Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slogans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wendell Willkie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; New York Magazine recently warned that the 2012 presidential election could be the &#8220; most negative in the history of American politics.&#8221; Granted, negative messages have more ways of reaching the American public than ever, with internet and Television advertising. but negative campaigns are an unfortunate tradition of the American political scene. The New-York Historical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating The Humanity In Bronze Statues</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/creating-the-humanity-in-bronze-statues/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/creating-the-humanity-in-bronze-statues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bronze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bronze casting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emancipation proclamation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fort greene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frederick douglass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivan schwartz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national constitution center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rotunda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sculpture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[studio eis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You know what Abraham Lincoln looks like. You can spot Frederick Douglass’s hair from a mile away. So what could two statues possibly add to your understanding of these two men? According to Ivan Schwartz of StudioEIS, more than you’d think. The New-York Historical Society chose StudioEIS to cast bronze sculptures of each of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pale Male, Audubon and the Life of the Red-Tailed Hawk</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/pale-male-audubon-and-the-life-of-the-red-tailed-hawk/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/pale-male-audubon-and-the-life-of-the-red-tailed-hawk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audubon's Aviary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birds of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hawk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Havell plate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hawk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John James Audubon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pale Male]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red-tailed Hawk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roberta J.M. Olson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Story Hour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watercolor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE BELOW: If Central Park had a mascot, it would be Pale Male, the majestic Red-tailed Hawk who has made the park his home since the early 1990s. Birders have chronicled his life and loves, from First Love to Lola to his latest mate, Lima. But nature has its dark side; last week Lima was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kings of New York: Newsies In Musicals and Museums</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/kings-of-new-york-newsies-in-musicals-and-museums/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/kings-of-new-york-newsies-in-musicals-and-museums/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DCHM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broadway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Bale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dimenna children's history museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Pulitzer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kid Blink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspaper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Randolph Hearst]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What was life like for the Newsies of New York? Day to day these poor, often abandoned, sometimes immigrant children sold newspapers on New York City streets in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, trying to earn enough to pay for a bed for the night just to start again the next morning. But eventually, these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind-The-Scenes Writing Contest: Tell The Stories Behind Our Collections!</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/writing-contest/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/writing-contest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Behind The Scenes Writing Contest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storytelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Contest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Workshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writopia Lab]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ask any historian or curator why they do what they do, and they&#8217;ll probably answer that they want to tell a story. Most of the time we don&#8217;t know the people behind the objects in our collection, and even if we do it&#8217;s just a name, a date, a title. We don&#8217;t know what the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Historical Illiteracy</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/fighting-historical-illiteracy/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/fighting-historical-illiteracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dimenna children's history museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historial Illiteracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huffington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lunch Scholars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saturday Academy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thirteenth Amendment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When did the Civil War take place?  What was the name of the war that brought America its independence? Who did we even declare independence from? You probably know the answers, and if so you’re apparently better informed than many American students and citizens.  The Huffington Post recently posted this video called “Lunch Scholars,” in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check Out West Side Rag&#8217;s History Beat!</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/check-out-west-side-rags-history-beat/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/check-out-west-side-rags-history-beat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[claremont inn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joel post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael hogan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patricia d. klingenstein library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[riverside park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upper west side]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[west side rag]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot you can learn about your neighborhood from the New-York Historical Society, and Upper West Side blog West Side Rag is taking advantage of that. In their new History Beat series, they choose an object or document from the archives of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library that references the Upper West Side, and delves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Romantic Items At The New-York Historical Society</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/a-few-romantic-items-at-the-new-york-historical-society/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/a-few-romantic-items-at-the-new-york-historical-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adonis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chaucer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cornwallis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cupid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elie Nadelman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Folk Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Horatio Gates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I Love Rocky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mantel Clock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nelson A. Rockefeller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valentine's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wedding Ring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day, everyone! Thanks to Chaucer, we now associate the holiday with love, though the fates of Valentine of Terni and Valentine of Rome were not very romantic. Still, we have numerous tokens of love in our Museum collections, ranging from the 1750s to the 1960s. Below are just a few, but tell us, what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Cunningham Sees The Whimsy In New York&#8217;s Fashion And Architecture</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/bill-cunningham-sees-the-whimsy-in-new-yorks-fashion-and-artchitecture/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/bill-cunningham-sees-the-whimsy-in-new-yorks-fashion-and-artchitecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Cunningham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooper-Hewitt Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duchess of Carnegie Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editta Sherman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grand Central Terminal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York and the Nation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Fashion Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert H. and Clarice Smith New York Gallery of American History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; New York Fashion Week is a time when the fashion world comes together to showcase how they&#8217;re moving couture forward. However, as avant-garde as fashion may get, there is always inspiration to be found in the past. Photographer Bill Cunningham made that apparent in his &#8220;Façades&#8221; project, where model Editta Sherman (aka the &#8220;Duchess of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing Howard Thain&#8217;s Message Reflected In Film</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/seeing-howard-thains-message-reflected-in-film/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/seeing-howard-thains-message-reflected-in-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1920s new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression era film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[howard thain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[howard thain's eye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john sims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[king vidor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luce Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memories of new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york transplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silent film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the crowd]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What does New York City look like to a newcomer? For artist Howard Thain, who moved to New York from Texas in 1919, it seemed a place filled with opportunity, which was at once inspiring and daunting. His art captures the excitement, movement and terror that swirl through the city, which challenge every citizen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Historians Are Reading: Thomas Bender</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/what-historians-are-reading-thomas-bender/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/what-historians-are-reading-thomas-bender/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What Historians Are Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alan taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american railroads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york historical society historian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york university]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[railroaded]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revolution!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[richard white]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the age of revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the civil war of 1812]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Bender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war of 1812]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this series we ask some of our friends what they’re reading to discover what the teachers want to learn, and what we can learn from their choices. This week we’re hearing from Thomas Bender, Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at New York University, and Co-Chief historian of Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edith Wharton and the Beauties of the Gilded Age</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/edith-wharton-and-the-beauties-of-the-gilded-age/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/edith-wharton-and-the-beauties-of-the-gilded-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exhibitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Age of Innocence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aristocracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauties of the Gilded Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Wharton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eleanor Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilded Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miniatures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Marie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The 400]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buccaneers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watercolor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Waldorf Astor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the New York Times wishes a happy upcoming 150th birthday to Edith Wharton, the author of such works as the Age of Innocence and The Buccaneers, which ripped into the culture and practices of the American nouveau-riche. Wharton herself was born into the New York upper crust, but said many of these families “had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designing a Hands-On Museum</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/designing-a-hands-on-museum/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/designing-a-hands-on-museum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bowling Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Small]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interactive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interactive Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interactive Painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Adam simon Oertel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reopening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Design Firm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smith Gallery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sons of Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tablets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the New-York Historical Society’s goals is discovering new ways to make the past present, and make visitors feel involved in New York’s history. Well, how does taking part in pulling down a historical statue sound? Because if you get enough friends, you may be able to do just that. From 1852-1853, Johannes Adam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, Health Department! Beer is a New York Tradition!</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/hey-health-department-beer-is-a-new-york-tradition/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/hey-health-department-beer-is-a-new-york-tradition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Brewing New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer Here]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer in New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn Brewery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garrett Oliver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayor Bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prohibition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Hindy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tankard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tradition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the New York Post reported that Mayor Bloomberg and the Department of Health may be pairing up to reduce “alcohol retail outlet (e.g. bar, corner store) density&#8221; in this fair city. Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s spokesman has since said the Mayor doesn&#8217;t back that part of the proposal (he does support cracking down on illegal drinking), so perhaps Bloomberg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering New York Designer Eva Zeisel</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/remembering-new-york-designer-eva-zeisel/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/remembering-new-york-designer-eva-zeisel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceramics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clara driscoll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthenware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eva zeisel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female designer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Timothy Wroten For the world of American art and design, last week was marked by the passing of illustrious designer and ceramicist Eva Zeisel, who was 105. The New-York Historical Society Museum was fortunate enough to work with Zeisel in 2003 to collect and exhibit some of her remarkable designs. Above are some pitchers that were donated to us by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Kingdom Built on Sugar: Sugar Sculpture of Versailles at New-York Historical</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/a-kingdom-built-on-sugar/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/a-kingdom-built-on-sugar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our current exhibition Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn is full of historic documents, artifacts and art, designed to put you in the shoes of people fighting for freedom across the Atlantic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. But between the pamphlets and portraits, you’ll find one piece that’s distinctly modern: a sugar-paste sculpture of Versailles. And for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Christmas By Crossing the Delaware</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/celebrating-christmas-by-crossing-the-delaware/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/celebrating-christmas-by-crossing-the-delaware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paintings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What did you do on Christmas morning? Slowly sipped coffee as you rustled through your stockings? Chatted with friends and family at church? Stealthily crossed a frigid river for a surprise attack against Hessian forces? That last one is what George Washington did in 1776 at the Battle of Trenton, a moment that artist Mort Künstler [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Historians Are Reading: Dr. Richard Rabinowitz</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/what-historians-are-reading-dr-richard-rabinowitz/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/what-historians-are-reading-dr-richard-rabinowitz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooklyn gentrification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Blight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Richard Rabinowitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patriotic Gore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revolution!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Rabinowitz]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the age of revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this series we ask some of our friends what they’re reading to discover what the teachers want to learn, and what we can learn from their choices. This week we hear from Dr. Richard Rabinowitz, curator of Revolution! and Founder and President of the American History Workshop. He&#8217;ll also be discussing the transitional history of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here Comes Santa Claus</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/here-comes-santa-claus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Manuscripts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA['Twas The Night Before Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Visit From St. Nicholas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chelsea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clement Clarke Moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[it happened here: the invention of santa claus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Timothy Wroten The modern red-suited, pot-bellied image of Santa Claus is the imaginative descendant of the historical fourth-century bishop St. Nicolas of Myra. Santa’s appearance and many surrounding holiday traditions owe much to the creative influence of some famous nineteenth-century New Yorkers, including Clement Clarke Moore, the author of “A Visit from St. Nicolas.” &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy 1765</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/occupy-1765/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/occupy-1765/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[American colonies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Richard Rabinowitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Inequality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do Americans do when they feel their government, isn&#8217;t representing them? In 1765, we revolted. That year Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which taxed all paper documents in the colonies. And according to the New Yorker, the revolutionary narrative is not so different than it is today: “The protests began because people felt that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On World AIDS Day, Remembering Keith Haring</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/on-world-aids-day-remembering-keith-haring/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/on-world-aids-day-remembering-keith-haring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crack Epidemic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Keith Haring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New-York Historical Society is dedicated to teaching its visitors about the city’s and country’s past, which includes the HIV/AIDS pandemic that reached its peak in the 1990s, and unfortunately continues today. Today is World AIDS Day, a worldwide day of remembrance for those who have died, support for those who are suffering, and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Day Thanksgiving Was Born</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-day-thanksgiving-was-born/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Manuscripts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holidays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Thanksgiving may have been celebrated by Pilgirms and Native Americans in New England with feasts of corn and eel (yes, eel), but it wasn&#8217;t until 1863 that it became a truly American holiday. Sarah Joseph Hale was the first to suggest that Thanksgiving should be celebrated nationwide, and after a 20 year campaign President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New-York Historical Society Turns 207, And Still Has Your Favorite Things</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-new-york-historical-society-turns-207-and-still-has-your-favorite-things/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-new-york-historical-society-turns-207-and-still-has-your-favorite-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Birds of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War Draft Wheel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday in 1804, the New-York Historical Society was founded, and 207 years later we&#8217;re still going strong, undergoing major changes that are making New-York Historical more open, welcoming and hospitable. In honor of our founding (and out of curiosity), we asked our Twitter followers what their favorite exhibitions, artworks or artifacts are in our centuries-old collection. And it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do We Learn From a Naturalization Ceremony?</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/what-do-we-learn-from-a-naturalization-ceremony/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/what-do-we-learn-from-a-naturalization-ceremony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Citizenship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[American History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ellis Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naturalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturalization Ceremony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robert h. smith auditorium]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Natural-born citizens can learn a lot from a naturalization ceremony. We can remember there are 435 members of the House of Representatives, a fact those vying for citizenship must memorize. We can brush up on the words to the national anthem. We can see just how excitedly someone can wave a tiny American flag. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think You Know Your NYC Trivia? Test It With Us!</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/nyc-trivia/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/nyc-trivia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empire State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Apartment Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeopardy!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manhattan Cowboys]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NYC facts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NYC Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NYC Trivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Morris Hunt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there’s one thing New Yorkers enjoy it’s one-upping each other with obscure facts about New York. Ok, maybe that’s just us, but if the popularity of the New-York Historical Society’s new video series with NYC Media is any indication, there are at least a few other people on board. New-York Historical has produced a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New-York Historical Society Hits Fifth Avenue</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-new-york-historical-society-hits-fifth-avenue/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-new-york-historical-society-hits-fifth-avenue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bergdorf Goodman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cornelius Vanderbilt mansion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cornplanter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Manhattan department store]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hectic demeanor of Fifth Avenue, especially as holiday shopping season rounds the bend, would rarely be compared to the quiet, contemplative environment of a museum. But if you’re walking around Midtown check out Bergdorf Goodman’s windows for a  hint of history amongst the street’s craze. Bergdorf Goodman is honoring the reopening of the New-York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blog To Satisfy All Your Sports Trivia Needs</title>
		<link>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-blog-to-satisfy-all-your-sports-trivia-needs/</link>
		<comments>http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/the-blog-to-satisfy-all-your-sports-trivia-needs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaya Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bill shannon biographical dictionary of new york sports]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Derek Jeter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Carney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gertrude Ederle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jordan Sprechman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports dictionary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which bowler fell through a plate-glass window as a kid, leaving him with permanently curled fingers? Which cyclist was the highest paid athlete of the early 20th century? Did you even know pedestrianism was a sport? It&#8217;s for facts like these and more that the Bill Shannon Biographical Dictionary of New York Sports was born. With [...]]]></description>
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