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A lot of effort goes into eating and getting your kids to eat

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Background: One of the many terrible terrible parts about children is feeding them. Every day! Often more than once! Images that agree : 2005, James (Birthday). Wall paper in process of being removed Toll Station. McCall Idaho. 2012. 2004 @ our first home Jan 2008. I guess he likes it Ali. Jan 2009  Videos that agree : Philip Speaks

The Art Institute of Chicago is Better than the Denver Museum of Art

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Best reasons to agree : +1 The Art Institute of Chicago is bigger, and bigger museums are better. the second largest art museum in the United States, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago has over 260,000 works of art. You run out of things to see when going to the Denver art museum, because it doesn't change very often. Best reasons to disagree : -1 Its less expensive to stay and park in Denver, in 2012 parking was $28 in Chicago and $4 in Denver.  Images that agree : Coffin and Mummy of Paankhenamun, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22 (c. 945–715 B.C.) Cartonnage, gold leaf, pigment; human remains Ancient Egyptian beliefs in the afterlife gave rise to the complex art and science of mummification. This vividly painted Mummy Case was the innermost of a series of shells that housed the body of a deceased person. The hieroglyphic inscriptions and painted scenes identify this mummy as Paankhenamun, a doorkeeper in th...