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  1. Sidedoor Season 2: if these bones could talk

    Sidedoor Podcast: Megatherium Club

    • Date: June 22, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_5844,size=250,left]A staff-favorite story in the Smithsonian’s history is that of the Megatherium Club — a revolving group of young naturalists who made the Castle their temporary home in between expeditions to the outer reaches of the United States. Who could not be intrigued by this photo of the Club where they look to be sharing a joke, or a plan?

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  3. View of Record Unit 7399 – Hahn William Capps Papers, 1939-1964, Box 1, Folder Miscellaneous Larval Notes, Sketches, etc. (Unpublished).

    Miscellaneous Adventures: Unpublished Larval Notes and Sketches

    • Date: September 1, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures looks into unpublished larval notes and sketches.

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  5. An interfiled audio record.

    What a Groovy Idea! A Pan-Institutional Survey of Audiovisual Collections

    • Date: April 21, 2016
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, here’s a brief overview of surveys and their role in preservation, as well as a look into an audiovisual survey currently taking place right here at the Smithsonian.

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    “A Wildlife Paradise”: International Collaboration on the DMZ Ecology in the 1960s

    • Date: November 12, 2019
    • Description: The DMZ ecology project reveals the Smithsonian’s commitment to ecological research programs as well as the complexity and contingency of an international collaboration.

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  9. Langley with His Aerodrome.

    Collegial, Yet Cautious: the Wright Brothers and Samuel P. Langley

    • Date: December 15, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: A look at the relationship between Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley and the Wright Brothers during the sometimes contentious race to achieve flight.

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  11. Dave Walker, Audio Digitization Specialist, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

    Ask an Archivist: Bring Your Questions Monday, October 27

    • Date: October 24, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In celebration of Archives Month, join us Monday, October 27th, 10am to 4pm ET, where four of our archivists specializing in audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (or electronic records) will be on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about your own archival collections. Questions from our readers in the past have ranged from storing letter and

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    The Saint Augustine Monster

    • Date: August 18, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: What was the Saint Augustine Monster? According to Wikipedia, it was a globster—“an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water.” This great-grandaddy of globsters kept cryptozoologists speculating and scientists testing for a century—and a piece of it lives at the Smithsonian. The St. Augustine monster was discovered by two

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  15. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Gina Pragan

    • Date: November 14, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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  17. Black and white photo of woman wearing cat eye glasses with short hair smiling.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Marian H. Pettibone

    • Date: April 12, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Bonus anecdote about Dr. Pettitbone:"While standing in line for a job interview during WWII, she overheard that men standing in the next line were going to get paid much more than those in her line. She then switched lines and became a spot welder, rather than a typist."

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  19.  A duplicate of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, on display at the Smithsonian in 1972

    So Where Do You Park Your Lunar Lander?

    • Date: July 16, 2019
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: If you took a trip to the moon, where would you park your lunar lander?

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  21. Visitors view a papier mache replica of a Triceratops skeleton at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, 1901.

    Sneak Peek 10/7/2019

    • Date: October 7, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, visitors view a papier mache replica of a Triceratops skeleton, USNM No. 13744.

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    Link Love: 4/23/2010

    • Date: April 23, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="World War II. Liberation of Holland. Dutch people waving at allied planes, The Netherlands, location unknown, 1945, Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo, SFA001015927. "][/caption] During WWII, many spots in Holland were liberated in April of 1945. Check out some of the National Archief’s new set of Flickr Commons photos

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