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Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC’s hit show America’s Got Talent. His talents have even earned him a place in the famous Guinness Book of World records. Various reptiles and arachnids from around the globe are brought to you in a comical and fun -filled hands on experience.

Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC’s hit show America’s Got Talent. His talents have even earned him a place in the famous Guinness Book of World records. Various reptiles and arachnids from around the globe are brought to you in a comical and fun -filled hands on experience.

Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC’s hit show America’s Got Talent. His talents have even earned him a place in the famous Guinness Book of World records. Various reptiles and arachnids from around the globe are brought to you in a comical and fun -filled hands on experience.

Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC’s hit show America’s Got Talent. His talents have even earned him a place in the famous Guinness Book of World records. Various reptiles and arachnids from around the globe are brought to you in a comical and fun -filled hands on experience.

Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC's hit show "America's Got Talent." His talents have even earned him a place in the famous "Guinness Book of World Records." Various reptiles and arachnids from around the globe are brought to you in a comical and fun-filled hands on experience.

Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC's hit show, America's Got Talent. His talents even earned him a place in the famous Guinness Book of World Records. Various reptiles and arachnids from around the globe are brought to you in a comical and fun-filled hands on experience.

Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC’s hit show America’s Got Talent. His talents have even earned him a place in the famous Guinness Book of World records. Various reptiles and arachnids from around the globe are brought to you in a comical and fun -filled hands on experience.

Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boarded a train car reserved for whites and was promptly arrested. Hearing the appeal of his conviction, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896 upheld the Louisiana statute, thus ushering in a half-century of legally sanctioned segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.

Williamjames Hull Hoffer examines that controversial decision and its repercussions in a discussion of his book about the landmark case. Hoffer is associate professor of history at Seton Hall University.

As the man behind Communism, Karl Marx has been revered as a prophet and blamed for some of the darkest atrocities of modern times. In his new biography of Marx, Jonathan Sperber challenges many of our misconceptions about this political firebrand-turned-London-émigré-journalist, presenting Marx’s personal story within the larger historical stage of a European continent roiling with political and social unrest.

Sperber is the Curators’ Professor of History at the University of Missouri.

The trio of Mark Lowry, Raymond DeMarchi, and John Currey present a variety of musical styles performed on percussion instruments from all over the globe.

Appropriate for all ages.