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Get Ready For Trains Over Texas!
November 15, 2016

All Aboard! “Trains Over Texas” being constructed at TW TrainWorx headquarters   Create holiday memories by travelling across Texas by model railroad in this scratch built  “O” scale model. The multiple trains crisscrossing the state will visit important and unique places in our state’s geology and physiography. Destinations include oil country salt domes, prairies and […]

Make the Holidays Merry and Bright With Your Very Own Jingle Tree!
November 14, 2016

The holiday season is a magical time – make it even more so at HMNS at Sugar Land with one of Fort Bend’s most anticipated holiday traditions! Jingle Tree features a showcase of beautifully decorated trees that are up for bid in a six-day long, online silent auction. Our special touch? The trees are sponsored and […]

HMNS Weekly Happenings
November 14, 2016

Take Two: Pocahontas (1995)       GET TICKETS   Friday, November 18 | 7:15 p.m. | Members: $4 | Tickets: $5  81 min. – Animation/Adventure/Drama An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.     Lecture – Applying Forensics to Archaeology by Andrew Shortland   […]

The “Super SuperMoon”
November 11, 2016

The full moon of November 14, 2016 will be the closest Supermoon to Earth since January 26,1948. The full moon won’t come this close again until November 25, 2034. Thus the November 2016 full moon is the closest and largest Supermoon in a period of 86 years!   The moon turns precisely full at 7:52 […]

An American Mastodon in Paris: A Story of Charles Willson Peale
November 9, 2016

Photo courtesy of wikipedia Charles Wilson Peale: ever heard of him?  Most people haven’t heard his name, but they probably have seen his work. Peale was one of the most famous portrait artists in the Colonies, and later the new United States, in the late 18th Century. He painted seven portraits of George Washington, some […]

HMNS Weekly Happenings
November 7, 2016

Lecture – More than Genes: Predators, Parasites and Partners of the Human Body by Rob Dunn A great deal of recent research has suggested that many modern health problems relate to recent changes in our gut microbes. As we have started to look at skin and the environment of our homes, it looks as though […]

Ancient Games Talk and Tournament This Saturday!
November 4, 2016

Do you consider yourself a master of chess? Does your prophetic understanding of strategy lead you to believe that you were a true king in a past life? You may think you know the game of chess, but what would happen if a river were suddenly placed in the middle of the board, or if […]

Five things I learned at Mummies of the World: The Exhibition
November 3, 2016

by Elizabeth Galante   As a former teacher, I know that most parents ask their students when they get home “what did you learn today?” and they more often than not receive a shoulder shrug or a one-word response like “stuff” and “things”. I imagine it’s frustrating trying to connect with your student with a […]

They Mite be Giants
November 2, 2016

The thought of small little animals running around our face cause most people to squirm a bit. As much as I do like the small animals like spiders and beetles, if I think I feel one crawling on my face I’ll very quickly try to brush it off. It’s not them, it’s me. Now we […]

Star Map: November 2016
November 1, 2016

This star map shows the Houston sky at 8 pm CST on November 1, 6:30 pm CST on November 15, and dusk on November 30.  To use the map, put the direction you are facing at the bottom. The Summer Triangle is high in the west.  The ‘teapot’ of Sagittarius sets in the southwest.  How […]


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