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See Mind-Blowing Artifacts When You Tour the Stax Museum of American Soul Music This Saturday Image
See Mind-Blowing Artifacts When You Tour the...
Stax Museum of American Soul Music is inviting you out for a tour of their collection this weekend! Located on the original site of the Stax Records studio in Memphis, the Stax Museum pays special tribute to the artists who recorded there, as well as other American soul legends, with a rare and...
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Learn More About Ralph David Abernathy and MLK During This New Exhibit at the Pink Palace Museum Image
Learn More About Ralph David Abernathy and MLK...
The Pink Palace Museum is proud to host City of Hope: Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Poster exhibition on Saturday, November 9th, beginning at 9 AM. While the United States was seen as a superpower to the world in the 1960s, poverty was widespread amongst Americans...
Full Beaver Moon
November’s full Moon was called the Beaver Moon by both the colonists and the Algonquin tribes because this was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. It was also called the Full Frost Moon by Native Americans. A full moon is a lunar phase that occurs when the geocentric apparent longitudes of the sun and moon differ by 180 degrees; the moon is then in opposition with the sun. At this time, as seen by viewers on earth, the hemisphere of the moon that is facing the earth (the near side) is fully illuminated by the sun and appears round.