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Missouri Botanical Garden
Through the Cameo app, the Missouri Botanical Garden s Butterfly House is offering cockroach dedications for Valentine s Day.
If your idea of a Valentine’s Day gift is more a lighthearted roasting than chocolates and flowers, this year, entomologists at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Butterfly House stand ready to name a cockroach in honor of your not-so-loved one. For a small fee, you can have one of the hated bugs named for an ex or use a funny moniker to take an inside joke a step further.
“We ve had parents dedicate one for their children, we ve had husbands get it for their wives and vice versa. People have done it for Stan Kroenke. We ve had one named after the year 2020. Just anything to sort of be light and fun,” said Tad Yankoski, MoBot’s senior entomologist.
âGreat architecture inspires peopleâ: comic Tim Ross peeks inside iconic walls
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Since his 2016 mini-series,
Streets of Your Town, became the most watched ABC arts program of that year, comedian/radio host turned architecture advocate, Tim Ross, has been making a follow-up documentary that delves into the lives lived inside iconic walls. As with its predecessor, the humour in
Designing a Legacy is of a whimsical nature. Ross wears his heart on his sleeve as he crosses hallowed thresholds from Queensland to Tasmania, of houses designed by the likes of Robin Boyd, Gabriel Poole and Ken Woolley.
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