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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Star-Spangled Banner: Science Saves U.S. Icon


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Workers unfurl the Star-Spangled Banner at the conservation lab that is part of an exhibit at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., in a 1999 photo. In 1998 museum experts launched the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation Project, an effort to conserve the flag for decades to come.

Photograph from Reuters/HO Old