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22 Jan 2020, 7:20 am
It was unknown to the scholarly community and would have likely remained so were it not for the unearthing, at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, of lists of Malay books and manuscripts purchased by the American missionary, Alfred North, for the United States Exploring Expedition. [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 2:36 pm
In a sprawling gallery of the Royal Ontario Museum, curators and technicians crowded around two large coolers that had recently arrived at the Toronto institution. [read post]
22 Oct 2019, 9:18 am
[Photo by Donna Sokol.]Some interesting information the public can expect to find in the Serial Set includes: Maps and reports of explorations of the West; A resolution to pass the 14th Amendment; The transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States; Reports of explorations and surveys for the Pacific Railroad; Documentary history of the United States Capitol building and grounds; Compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents from 1789 to 1897, including Presidents George Washington,… [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 1:54 pm
Moose) are in the Smithsonian, for God’s sake. [read post]
6 Oct 2019, 1:29 pm
A 2014 study, conducted by scientists from the Smithsonian Institution and the Fish and Wildlife Service, estimated that between 365 million and 988 million birds are killed in the United States every year as a result of building collisions. [read post]
27 Aug 2019, 1:11 pm
(Private docent-led labor tour of the Smithsonian! [read post]
20 Aug 2019, 11:40 am
(Photo by Jay Premack/USPTO) Finally, before and after the event, participants had the chance to view an Apollo era spacesuit loaned from the Smithsonian, experience a virtual moon walk provided by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and visit the National Inventors Hall of Fame® Museum's Apollo 11 exhibit. [read post]
17 Jul 2019, 4:01 pm
Goddard showed remarkable prescience in 1923 in a letter to the Smithsonian. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 4:32 am
The drawings can be viewed as suggesting cages or prisons.Enter the Smithsonian Institute of Natural History in Washington, D.C. [read post]
9 Jun 2019, 1:36 pm
Hoping to fill in some of these gaps, a research team led by Kieran Cox, a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria and a former Link Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute, looked at 26 papers assessing the amount of microplastics in commonly consumed food items, among them seafood, sugars, salts, honey, alcohol and water. [read post]
7 May 2019, 11:53 am
During the past year and a half, the NARA SNAC Liaisons presented information sessions and system demonstrations as close as the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art where the Smithsonian’s Technical Group had a presentation by Liaison Dina Herbert. [read post]
26 Apr 2019, 5:50 am
Image courtesy of Division of Political and Military History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. [read post]
31 Mar 2019, 9:30 pm
He also teaches a large-enrollment undergraduate legal history course in the college.Credit: @USCLawLibrary (Twitter feed)Prior to joining the faculty at USC, he held fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution and Harvard Law School. [read post]
21 Mar 2019, 7:09 am
Hosted jointly by the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the site includes a slew of digital exhibits that capture the many aspects of women’s lives. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 12:01 am
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; In early 1787, when Mrs. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 7:52 am
According to the Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, the original design for the modern straw, which was designed to be made out of paper, was patented by a D.C. native, Marvin Stone on January 3, 1888. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 6:30 am
Department of Justice, and, finally, department head, History and Culture libraries at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before joining the Library of Congress in 2014. [read post]
11 Feb 2019, 7:34 am
Jackson, Professor of Oceanography Emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Senior Scientist Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, on February 14th will discuss, as part of the Stegner Center Green Bag Series, his newest book: Breakpoint – Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises. [read post]
16 Jan 2019, 8:42 am
I landed in the D.C. area in 1991 when I got an internship at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art (then NMAA, now Smithsonian American Art Museum). [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 6:35 am
So have laboratories run by NASA and the Smithsonian Institution’s museums along the National Mall. [read post]
