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27 Aug 2024, 8:26 am by Reference Staff
According to the Migration Policy Institute, the new “per-country caps [were] based on the U.S. population with origins in each country (including the descendants of immigrants) as of 1920. [read post]
19 Nov 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
As an article in Smithsonian Magazine notes, “From the day the trial began on September 24, 1969, it captivated the media. [read post]
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4 Oct 2007, 10:37 am
Galloway speech entitled, Organizing The United States Government For Outer Space: 1957-1958, which she gave at a symposium, Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since The Soviet Sputnik, sponsored by the NASA Office of Policy & Plans; National Air & Space Museum; George Washington University Space Policy Institute and Kenan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC on Sept. 30 - Oct. 1, 1997. [read post]
26 Sep 2024, 7:18 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
US history teachers rely on a short list of trusted sites led by federal institutions including the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and Smithsonian museums…” [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 6:24 am
Although I find this part of the article less convincing, in part because the President also appoints all other Article III judges, though none have a close advisory relationship to the executive, it does have an interesting discussion about the history of the office of Chief Justice and some of the more esoteric duties entrusted to the Chief by statute (such as regent for the Smithsonian Institution and as trustee for the National Gallery of Art and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture… [read post]
12 Oct 2023, 11:00 am by Bailey DeSimone
The Smithsonian is in the process of building the National Museum of the American Latino, so in the meantime, I wandered along Constitution Avenue. [read post]
3 Oct 2016, 1:14 pm by Jennifer González
The Law Library lists opportunities on its internships page, but there are also ongoing projects at the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Archives and Records Administration. [read post]
27 Aug 2012, 2:54 pm
Child's personal kitchen was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., upon her passing, and remains on display to this day much as it appeared in her Massachusetts home, including her Thermador oven, the complaint points out. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 5:00 am by Charlotte Law Library
One of the best keynote speakers we had was Michael Edson from the Smithsonian Institution. [read post]
10 Feb 2016, 12:11 pm by Mary Jane Wilmoth
Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, and TRAFFIC. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 11:23 am by Betty Lupinacci
  During this time period the United States used the Smithsonian Institution as its official designee for handling these exchanges. [read post]
26 Jan 2017, 12:14 pm by Ashley Binetti
” This year, NWC was also announced a Grand Prize Winner in the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge, an initiative of USAID in partnership with the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, and TRAFFIC. [read post]
1 Sep 2010, 5:56 am by David Bernstein
” “Joseph Romm, a physicist who runs the Web site ClimateProgress.org, is infuriated by the Smithsonian’s presentation. [read post]
15 Sep 2016, 7:05 am by Ashley Binetti
” The Our Ocean conference follows on the heels of USAID announcing the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge Winners:  The Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge, an initiative of USAID in partnership with the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, and TRAFFIC, was intended to find new, innovative solutions to the most intractable issues in the fight against wildlife trafficking—including both terrestrial and marine wildlife trafficking, as well as illegal,… [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 5:01 am by James Edward Maule
Weather Bureau, serve as assistant at the Smithsonian Institution in charge of climatology research, present papers on atmospheric physics, direct the surveying and determination of gradients and altitudes for the Pacific railway, work in the War Office, write at least 150 books, 350 pamphlets, thousands of editorial articles, and countless reports, edit newspapers, serve as secretary of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, and take the industrial census of Philadelphia four times. [read post]
9 Dec 2018, 5:56 am by Mary Jane Wilmoth
Global Wildlife Whistleblower Program * * * The NWC’s Global Wildlife Whistleblower Program, was named a Grand Prize Winner of the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge, an initiative of USAID in partnership with the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution and TRAFFIC. [read post]
15 Jul 2014, 5:38 am
" He purchased the Hope Diamond and donated it to the Smithsonian Institution, an act that has generated enormous publicity. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 5:31 am by Reference Staff
The completed volume was the culmination of a ten-year project and was unanimously approved for publication by The American Law Institute in 2021. [read post]
17 Feb 2015, 8:00 am
In May 2013, the Smithsonian Magazine looked at the efficacy of helmets in a piece titled, “Bicycle Helmets Really Do Work, But You Have to Wear Them. [read post]