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We knew we'd find a lot of links in Yahoo!'s Louis Armstrong category, but we wanted specific information about his instrument. So, we typed "Louis Armstrong's trumpet" (using quotation marks) into the Yahoo! search box and hoped for the best. We clicked on the first match listed, a subpage of CNN.com. At first glance, the article, Clinton toasts 2000 at White House VIP dinner, didn't seem relevant, but we soon found mention of Satchmo's trumpet. The article discusses, among
other things, the White House Millennium Council project and its National Archives time capsule. The time capsule, a metal cabinet rendered to look like a three-dimensional, waving American flag, was sealed and stored at the end of 2000 and will be opened in 100 years. The capsule contains a number of varied objects suggested by 20th century "thinkers, creators, builders," and teachers and students from across the country. Louis Armstrong's trumpet is in there. Other items include: a transistor, a shard of the dismantled Berlin Wall, a photo of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, and a film of Neil Armstrong's first walk on the moon.
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