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Finding Nemo has never been easier. Dozens of cool fish are hanging out at the Belle Isle Aquarium, open today as part of Shiver on the River. The yearly event, sponsored by Friends of the Detroit River, is a family-friendly day of fun all over Belle Isl
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Architecture and the Jewish Outsider In The Architecture of Exile, Stanley Tigerman reminds us that we are burdened by Paradise. The Garden of Eden set the bar high: that “single, unique but unknowable place denied by God to humanity but reverently, rele
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A boat filled with graffiti is seen inside the abandoned and decaying manufacturing plant of Packard Motor Car in Detroit, Michigan April 2, 2011. The city is a part of America's Midwestern "Rust Belt", the heartland of the country and home to big... View Photo »
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DETROIT, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rock Ventures LLC, the umbrella entity providing operational coordination and integration of Dan Gilbert's portfolio of companies, investments and real estate, today announced it will close on the purchase of downto
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Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory: The greenhouse and botanical garden cover 13 acres, and the 1904 building was designed by Albert Kahn. It is home to one of the country's largest orchid collections. Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, Belle Isle, Detr
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David Gudas, a resident of Lewiston and a city employee, takes photos inside Bates Mill No. 5 on Saturday as he and several dozen others toured the Lewiston landmark. For a video of the tour, visit sunjournal.com/mill5tour010712. Lewiston photographer Da
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Car building as an art form has been nearly perfected over the last 130 years, but not every plant that puts together vehicles is exactly the same. Mercedes-Benz imported special wood for the floors of its Vance, Alabama, assembly plant in the
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I was an Air Force Flight surgeon on active duty from about 1963. One personal experience I had that really made me start to think about the war was that I was doing many physicals on Army warrant officers who were seeking to become helicopter pilots. I
About Albert Kahn
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Albert Kahn (March 21, 1869 — December 8, 1942) was the foremost American industrial architect of his day. Kahn came to Detroit in 1880 at the age of 11 from Germany. As a teenager he got a job at the architectural firm of Mason and Rice. Kahn won a year's scholarship to study abroad in Europe, where he toured with another young architecture... Full Article
