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The year 2004 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Explorers Club, whose New York City headquarters, like its membership, reflects a wide-ranging fascination for the world's wilder places and how to reach them. The organization is best known for its illustrious membership and its elaborate black-tie dinners with live animal displays and exotic menus of scorpion, sea snakes, and other rarities. However, the club's collections of paintings, sculptures, and artifacts are also worthy of note.
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Since 1965 the club has ...