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Beaver Cow Chip Toss: Time For Another Hurl

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

If you’re within a few hundred miles of Beaver, Oklahoma, stop by on Saturday, April 16, at 1 PM.

Quan Am Smiles Upon Tulsa

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

After years of delay, Tulsa, Oklahoma, is now the unlikely home of America’s tallest Buddhist deity.

Lovely Bones: America’s Skeleton Museum

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

It takes a long time to create a museum of skeletons — especially when you have to strip off all the meat and reassemble the bones yourself.

City council members in the Southern California town of Bellflower are hoping that the “fingers of God” will attract foot traffic to their downtown district this summer. They recently approved the temporary installation of Invitation/Decalogue, a 26-foot-wide, 15-foot-tall fiberglass sculpture by Romanian artist Liviu Mucan, which is intended to represent God’s hands and The Ten [...]

Land That Space Shuttle…Right…Here

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

In late 2008 NASA announced that the Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor Space Shuttles would be given away when they were retired. It accepted proposals from any attraction willing to pay the transportation and upkeep (an estimated $30 million apiece), and wound up with two dozen hopefuls.

Atomic Cannon and Mule Gun: Alternate Universe Arms

Monday, June 8th, 2009

The outdoor “Cannon Walk” at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, is anchored at its west end by “Atomic Annie,” one of America’s arsenal of forward-thinking guns that fired nuclear warheads. Now Fort Sill has become the place to see two of the America’s most inventive weapons, because just down the street from Annie is the new U.S. Army Field Artillery Museum and its star exhibit (at least to us), the Mule Gun.

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