Gazette.Net: Ardmore students get virtual tour of new Smithsonian museum

Not many elementary school students get to quiz the builders of the newest Smithsonian museum on everything from the building’s height, how many people worked on it and the hardest part of their job — but that’s just what about 100 third- through sixth-graders at Ardmore Elementary School in Springdale did Friday afternoon.

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Paris’s neighborhoods, the arrondissements , are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl — a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig’s tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20. But if you walk from one neighborhood to the next, there is little to suggest the numbers changing. So it was confusing. Anyway, if you ...