New Hennepin History Museum exhibit honors health care workers of another era The Hennepin History Museum s Local Heroes display covers a century of innovation and trailblazers in the medical field. February 19, 2021 2:57pm Text size Copy shortlink:
As curator of the Hennepin History Museum, Alyssa Thiede spends months meticulously researching, planning and building exhibits for the Minneapolis museum.
But the pandemic changed all of that. The exhibit she was planning to open in fall 2020 had to be canceled. Thiede needed a new idea to fill the space in 2021 something she could work on safely, finish with a shortened schedule and complete without her normal research channels.
space exploration history. 50 years ago today the first man went into space and 30 years ago today, nasa sent up the first space shuttle, and the russian cosmonaut left in 1961 and on that same day in 1981, john young and john crippen took that amazing flight. let s listen to the amazing sound effects. i am continuing the flight. the overload is somewhat increasing as well as the vibration. i am feeling well and i m in great spirits. i can see the earth, and i can distinguish the features of its terrain. america s first space shuttle. the shuttle has cleared the tower. ironically, nasa s shuttle
linking beaches and a wildlife sanctuary just a few miles from new york city. and geography isn t all they have in common. the first victims found and identified were all young women who had been missing since as far back as 2007. they also were prostitutes who advertised their services online and whose bodies reportedly were found in burlap sacks. my colleague, allan chernoff, joins me now, he s at jones beach where police at the moment are not. allan, what happened to the search today? reporter: police were out early this morning in a helicopter looking overhead to see if there was anything else that they wanted to check out by land. they didn t see anything of interest. as you said, yesterday, grisly discoveries. they found both a skull and a set of bones, separate areas, about a mile and a half apart. so, the work right now is in the laboratory, the forensics. those bones are at the medical examiner. here in nassau county. and the other sets of bones are in the suffolk