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"When there isn't anything else fun to do, I go outside and play in my sandbox."

Anon. (Age 8)

Article Ideas, Fragments, etc

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Needed Articles

American Museum of Natural History: Large museum located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1869. The museum consists of 25 connected buildings and 46 exhibition halls for display of its large collection of diaramas, artifacts and scientific evidence of natural history. ^[e]
John James Audubon: West Indian-American illustrator and animalier, known for his illustrations of birds. The father of wildlife artist James Woodhouse Audubon ^[e]
Henry Burgh: Animal activist, eccentric, and creator of the A.S.P.C.A., the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty against Animals ^[e]
Thomas Mayne Reid: Popular Irish-American author of action-adventure books (1818-1883) born in County Down in northern Ireland, "Captain" Reid was a drinking companion of Edgar Allen Poe before fighting in the Mexican-American War of 1846 and was wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec. His books on the American West were popular with young boys in Europe and elsewhere. ^[e]
Robert B. Roosevelt: An uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt who was a pioneering ichthyologist, crusader against over-fishing and eccentric. ^[e]
John Burroughs: Add brief definition or description
Frank Chapman: Add brief definition or description
George Bird Grinnell: Add brief definition or description
National Wildlife Refuge System: Add brief definition or description
U.S. Forest Service: Add brief definition or description
Hetch Hetchy Valley: A glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in California flooded in the 1920s by O'Shaughnessy Dam on the Tuolumne River, forming the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, part of the water supply for the city of San Francisco, California, California (U.S. state). Damming the Tuolumne and flooding the valley was protested by John Muir and the Sierra Club ^[e]
Yosemite Valley: Mountain valley on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada range in Mariposa County, California. The valley is the point of entry and a major attraction of Yosemite National Park. ^[e]
Yosemite National Park: A national park, established in 1890, located in the Yosemite Valley in the Sierra Nevada range of central California. ^[e]
Mariposa Grove: A grove of giant sequoia trees located in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park near Wawona, California. ^[e]
Street: Add brief definition or description
Arrondissement: An administrative district in France and most of its former colonies. The City of Paris is divided into twenty arrondissements municipaux each of which have their own character and which constitute distinct spatial, cultural, social and political districts. ^[e]
Lionel Trilling: American literary critic, author, and teacher (born Lionel Mordecai Trilling), 1905-1975. A member of the New York Intellectuals and contributor to the Partisan Review. ^[e]
David Riesman: American sociologist, lawyer, professor and public intellectual. 1909-2002. His 1950 book, The Lonely Crowd distinguished inner-directed and outer-directed personalities. ^[e]
The New Freeman: A name taken by several different publications representing the radical left, libertarian and other outlooks. ^[e]
Commentary: Add brief definition or description
The Menorah Journal: A Jewish leftist publication that was during the 1930s edited by Herbert Solow and Elliott E. Cohen. ^[e]
International Herald Tribune: A widely read and influential English-language daily newspaper currently owned by the The New York Times Company and printed at three dozen sites throughout the world and sold in more than 180 countries. ^[e]
Nicholas Murray Butler: (1862–1947) American philosopher, diplomat, and educator who was president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. ^[e]
American Jewish Committee: Add brief definition or description
Paris Review: English-language literary magazine founded in Paris in 1953 and currently based in New York City. It's original mission statement said it sought to publish "the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe grinders. So long as they're good." ^[e]

Theater

Musical Theater [r]: Performing arts presentations combining song, dance, and [[orchesta]l music with spoken dialogue. Types of musical theater include, among others, Broadway musicals, revues, musical comedy, operetta, and light opera. ^[e]

Title	Composer/Librettist	Setting	Main Characters	Date First Produced	Date Movie
Annie Get Your Gun	Irving Berlin		Annie Oakley, "Wild Bill" Cody	1946	1950
Aspects of Love	Andrew Lloyd Webber		1948	1948	1948
Cats	Andrew Lloyd Webber		1900	1900
Evita	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Argentina			1900
Meet Me In St. Louis	Irving Brecker/Fred Finklehoffe	Worlds Fair of 1904	The Smith family		1944
My Fair Lady		Edwardian London		1900
New York, New York				1900	1900
Oklahoma	Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr.	Oklahoma Territory	Curley McLain, Laurey Williams	1941	1955
Oliver
Pal Joey				1900
Private Lives	Noël Coward	London		1930
Phantom of the Opera	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Paris Opera, Paris Sewer		1941	1943
The Sound of Music		Austria		1900	1900
South Pacific	Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr.	WWII in Pacific		1949	1958
State Fair	Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr.	Iowa State Fair	The Frake family	1996	1945
West Side Story	Leonard Bernstein			1900	1900
Wonderful Town		NYC		1900	1900
Where’s Charley?				1900
The King and I		Siam		1900
Guys and Dolls		Broadway		1900
London Calling	Noel Coward	London	Willy & George Craft	1923
Kiss Me Kate
A Chorus Line
Hair
No No Nanette
Jesus Christ, Superstar	Tom Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber
Max and
Gypsy	Steven Sondheim			1971
Rent
Les Miserables
No No Nanette
Porgy and Bess
Starlight Express
Follies
Billy Elliot
Funny Girl
On the Town
42nd Street
Auntie Mame
The Wiz
Sunset Boulevard
Sweet Charity

[[]] [r]: Add brief definition or description

Max and

Grey Gardens

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