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NEWS RELEASE

For immediate release: 2005 July 26
For more information -- Glenn A. Walsh:
    Daytime: E-Mail < [log in to unmask] >
    Evening: Telephone 412-561-7876

PITTSBURGH CITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY 
DESIGNATES BUHL PLANETARIUM A HISTORIC LANDMARK

AMERICA’S SPACE SHUTTLE RETURNS TO SPACE WITHIN SAME
HOUR

Pittsburgh, July 26 – In a unanimous vote, this
morning Pittsburgh City Council approved legislation
declaring that the original Buhl Planetarium and
Institute of Popular Science building is a City
Designated Historic Structure; the vote came at
precisely 11:24:17 a.m. EDST. This is the culmination
of a six-month process, for the historic designation
of this well known Pittsburgh landmark, begun by city
resident Jon Wilson Smith on behalf of Friends of the
Zeiss.

This designation approval comes within an hour of the
successful return to space of America’s Space Shuttle.
Space Shuttle Discovery was launched from Cape
Canaveral, as scheduled, at precisely 10:39 a.m.
(EDST), following more than two years when the Space
Shuttle fleet was grounded after the tragic explosion
of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

TO READ THE COMPLETE NEWS RELEASE, CLICK HERE:
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http://buhlplanetarium4.tripod.com/friendsofthezeiss/HRCnom/NR-Buhl-PCChistdesig2.htm
>

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE HISTORIC NOMINATION, CLICK
HERE:
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http://buhlplanetarium4.tripod.com/friendsofthezeiss/HRCnom/BuhlHRCNom.htm >

gaw

Glenn A. Walsh
Electronic Mail - < [log in to unmask] > 
Author of History Web Sites on the Internet --
* Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh: 
  < http://www.planetarium.cc > 
* Adler Planetarium, Chicago: 
  < http://adlerplanetarium.tripod.com >
* Astronomer & Optician John A. Brashear: 
  < http://johnbrashear.tripod.com > 
* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries: 
  < http://www.andrewcarnegie.cc > 
* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh: 
  < http://www.incline.cc >


		
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