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$725,000 Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania $200,000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio $1,800,000 2003 Women’s World Cup Tournament $6,000,000 Police Athletic League $250,000 Call Me Mister program, Clemson University $500,000 New England Amer-I-Can Program $150,000 Rock School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania $16,000 National Distance Running Hall of Fame, Utica, New York $225,000 Hawaii statehood celebration $325,000 Construction of a swimming pool in Salinas, California $100,000 History competition during National History Day in Iowa $175,000 Therapeutic Horse man ship center, Hoffman Homes for Youth, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania $315,000 Formosan Subterranean Termite research $100,000 Public service recognition week $50,000 Father Maloney’s Boy’s Haven, Louisville, Kentucky $75,000 Vintage Radio Programs and Jazz Museum, East Stroudsburg University $100,000 Kids Rock Free educational program, Fender Museum of the Arts Foundation, Corona, California $100,000 Renovation of the historic Coca-Cola building in Macon, Georgia $100,000 Construction of an intergenerational daycare center in San Fernando Valley, California $372,000 B&O Railroad Museum emergency restoration, Baltimore, Maryland $75,000 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Washington, DC $225,000 Construction of Blue-Gray Civil War Theme Park, Kentucky $75,000 North Pole Transit System JARC Program, Alaska $250,000 Feasibility study of establishing Suffolk (Virginia) Workforce Development Center $350,000 Construction for a folk cultural center in Pinellas County, Florida $400,000 Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky $90,000 Olive fruitfly research $150,000 Traffic light, Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District, New York $100,000 People for People, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania $100,000 Amphitheater construction, North Star Productions, Inc., Bracken County, Kentucky $2,000,000 First Tee program $150,000 Regional Youth Baseball Complex Lancaster, California $100,000 John Singelton Mosby Museum Foundation in Warrenton, Virginia $180,000 Seafood waste research, Fairbanks, Alaska $400,000 Walla Walla Public Schools, Walla Walla, Washington $900,000 Kincaid Park Trail Connection, Alaska $20,000 Southern Star Development Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky $85,000 Comprehensive Transportation Plan for Lewisburg, West Virginia $100,000 Norman Hall project, University of Florida $225,000 Museum of Aviation Foundation Inc, Warner Robins, Georgia $250,000 Lou Frey Institute of Politics, University of Central Florida $270,000 Sustainable olive production $5,000,000 Kennedy Center Potomac River Pedestrian and Bike Path $100,000 National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania $200,000 Cedar glades research $250,000 Theater construction, Studio for the Arts, Pocahontas, Arkansas $2,000,000 Intermodal Transload Facility, Quincy, Washington $110,000 Construction of a dental clinic in Bassfield, Mississippi $220,000 New Mexico Retail Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico $400,000 Davenport Music History Museum, Davenport, Iowa $3,000,000 US 12 Widening, Wallula Junction to Walla Walla, Washington $25,000 Alex Haley House Museum, Henning, Tennessee $225,000 Rialto Square Theater, Joliet, Illinois $5,000,000 Project SOCRATES $90,000 Rabbit Run Community Arts Association, Madison, Ohio $150,000 Renovation of Farmers market, Dallas, Texas $200,000 Merit School of Music’s after school program $200,000 Advanced Traffic Analysis Center, North Dakota $250,000 Nevada Test Site Oral History Project $400,000 National Center for American Revolution, Wayne, Pennsylvania $1,000,000 Hal Rogers Parkway, Kentucky $1,000,000 Ship Creek Improvements, Alaska $2,000,000 I-SAFE America $50,000 National Canal Museum, Easton, Pennsylvania $100,000 Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea $200,000 Renovation of First National Bank Building, Greenfield, Massachusetts $250,000 Martha’s Village and Kitchen, Indio, California $270,000 Potato storage $1,000,000 Transylvania Community Hospital, Brevard, North Carolina $6,000,000 Treasure Island Bridge $80,000 Hot Springs Bike Trail, Arkansas $90,000 Karnal bunt research, Manhattan, Kansas $175,000 Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas $210,000 O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, Virginia $250,000 James S. Taylor Memorial Home, Louisville, Kentucky $250,000 Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago, Illinois $500,000 Traffic Signal Replacement Program, New Rochelle, New York $2,000,000 Parents Anonymous $100,000 "Servicing our Youth" $275,000 Refurbishment of the Coach George E. Ford Center, Powder Springs, Georgia $150,000 Piper’s Opera House Programs, Inc., Virginia City, Nevada $270,000 U.S. Vegetable Lab $1,250,000 US-2, Dover Bridge, Bonner County, Idaho $25,000 Capitol Area Boy Scouts $113,000 Healing Place, Louisville, Kentucky $500,000 Jim Thorpe Bridge Renovation Project, Pennsylvania $600,000 Web Wise Kids $800,000 Mammoth Lakes Bus Purchase, California $100,000 Renovate the Jamestown (Ohio) Opera House $400,000 Ed Roberts Campus transit center, California $750,000 The Doe Fund’s Ready, Willing & Able program $160,000 Grapevine Bus Purchase, Texas $500,000 Round Rock Higher Education Center, Southwest Texas State University $1,400,000 Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona $25,000 Transylvania County, North Carolina, Sheriff’s Citizens Observer Patrol and Education Team $200,000 Chaldean Community Culture Center, West Bloomfield, Michigan $300,000 Milwaukee Summer Stars $450,000 Johnny Appleseed Heritage Center, Inc., Ashland County, Ohio $750,000 Intelligent Transportation Systems, Wichita Transit Authority $1,500,000 Operation Streetsweeper $125,000 Planning for new route over Cape Fear River, North Carolina $300,000 Omnitrans—Paratransit Vehicles, California $500,000 Bike path, St. Petersburg, Florida $1,000,000 WestStart Vehicular Flywheel Project, Washington $15,000 Pines of Peace, Inc., Ontario, New York $75,000 U.S. Dream Academy, Inc., Columbia, Maryland $200,000 Oneont Bus Replacement, New York $450,000 Trout Genome Mapping $500,000 LOVE Social Services, Fairbanks, Alaska $750,000 Broken Bow rail spur, Oklahoma $2,000,000 Tools for Tolerance program, California $150,000 National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation $1,000,000 DelTrac Statewide Integration, Delaware

-b0b
(...thinks some of those are just retarded.)