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Article: Smithsonian Folklife Festival opens on Mall
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- June 25, 2008
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Hundreds of artists, scientists and visitors from three wildly different cultures _ Texas, NASA and the isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan _ converged Wednesday at the opening of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall.
Bhutanese monks in traditional robes stood in line with tourists and NASA engineers for a taste of Texan cuisine that included steak fajitas and noodles from Houston's Vietnamese community.
"Bhutan and America are indeed two very different nations _ different in size, wealth, geography and population," said the 23-year-old Prince of Bhutan, Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck. "But together, we share common values."
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