{"id":1902,"date":"2012-11-12T17:31:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T22:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2012-12-12T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T22:05:00","slug":"educational-travel-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/educational-travel-york","title":{"rendered":"Educational Travel to Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Student<\/a>Transform your students\u2019 lives (and maybe your own) with an exceptional educational tour to Washington, D.C.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

If you love a secret, the International Spy Museum is the place for you. You\u2019ll be blown away by clandestine antics that you\u2019ve only ever associated with James Bond. But espionage isn\u2019t all it\u2019s cracked up to be in the movies. In fact, there\u2019s an entire unseen world that only a real-world agent would know. And now it\u2019s time for you to find out\u2026<\/p>\n

From the moment your student tour\u00a0steps into the museum\u2019s elevator, you\u2019ll feel the urgency as its blue flashing lights tell you that you\u2019ve got a top secret mission ahead. Your first stop? The briefing room where you\u2019ll pick your own secret identity. Keep it memorized so you\u2019ll remain cool under cover and under interrogation. After making your way into the museum, crawl through echoing aluminum ducts. (Tread lightly to keep incognito!) Then covertly enter the School for Spies where you\u2019ll learn to pick locks and scout some 200 gadgets that have kept secret agents in business for years.<\/p>\n

Discover how every move can be tracked using a transmitter buried in the heel of a shoe. Look out for a glove pistol used by U.S. Navy personnel during World War II that helped assassins keep both hands free while executing the enemy. And, see a replica of an umbrella used to assassinate a Bulgarian dissident near Waterloo Bridge in 1978 when a tiny ricin pellet was fired from its tip.<\/p>\n

As intriguing as these contraptions are, your tour group’s mission is\u00a0more than just a sneak peek into the world of espionage. It\u2019s about examining history in a new way, too. You\u2019ll be able to better imagine the trepidation felt by agents who smuggled themselves into the West during the Cold War when you learn how spies hid out in the most unlikely places, and you\u2019ll picture the past in a way that no textbook can describe as you navigate through a tunnel like one secretly dug by the CIA in 1954 leading into East Berlin. Step back and envision the immense pressure spies felt safeguarding U.S. secrets when you explore the model of an American Embassy intricately decked with equipment built to block Russia\u2019s KGB infiltration.<\/p>\n

As you near the end of your interactive mission, give a thought to one of the greatest spies who ever lived, Virginia Hall. This fearless lady posed as a French dairy farmer during World War II while building resistance networks and scouting drop zones for the Allies. Admire her Empire Medal standing proudly on display and understand why a spy, more than the gadgets, is a country\u2018s most dangerous weapon.<\/p>\n

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Transform your students\u2019 lives (and maybe your own) with an exceptional educational tour to Washington, D.C. If you love a secret, the International Spy Museum is the place for you. You\u2019ll be blown away by clandestine antics that you\u2019ve only ever associated with James Bond. But espionage isn\u2019t all it\u2019s cracked up to be in Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[312,313,310,314,311],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explorica-news","tag-class-trip-to-dc","tag-educational-travel-to-dc","tag-students-trips-to-dc","tag-tour-the-nations-captial","tag-washington-dc-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}