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    1. Link Love: 7/19/2019

      • Date: July 19, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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      Picturing Infinity: The Hubble Telescope’s Universal View

      • Date: May 11, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_827" align="aligncenter" width="242" caption="Spacecraft Hubble: Hubble in Flight, 2007, NASA"][/caption] Throughout May and June, we are inviting people throughout the Smithsonian to talk about photography and astronomy. Welcome Joseph Caputo, intern at the Smithsonian Magazine. In April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was dropped off 353 miles above

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    5. Purple/pink animated gif of nature scene with moon in the sky showing line connecting partial moon which designates south.

      Link Love: 9/1/2017

      • Date: September 1, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Memorable animated gifs for the directionally-challenged! [via Atlas Obscura]Can't wait for Spring 2019 to see the next GoT? A neural network has written the first chapter. [via Motherboard]The history of toys that have enduring popularity (think Slinky and time will tell on the fidget spinner). [via Inc.]The British Library is considering a single digital portal. [via

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    7. Brightly colored pink bird with long bill alongside more plainly colored, smaller bird lifting leg.

      Link Love: 8/25/2017

      • Date: August 25, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: 435 high resolution book plates of gorgeous illustrations from Audubon's The Birds of America are now available for free download! [via Hyperallergic]And after you're done with the plates, check out peacock feathers under a high magnification lens, by artist Waldo Nell. [via Wired]University students are working to save the remaining copies of a black-owned newspaper, The

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    9. Fred Whipple Receives "Distinguished Federal Civilian Award"

      Fred Whipple Receives "Distinguished Federal Civilian Award"

      • Date: 1963
      • Creator: Unknown
      • Creator: Unknown

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    11. Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, 1900, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Medicine and Science. Photograph taken as part of expedition to view the solar eclipse of May 1900 in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Note the elaborate tent that housed the Smithsonian’s large horizontal telescope.

      Smillie and the 1900 Eclipse

      • Date: June 9, 2009
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      SIA Acc. 07-154, Emmons, Richard H. 1919-2005, Richard H. Emmons Papers, circa 1954-1998

      • Date: 1954 1954-1998 circa 1954-1998
      • Creator: Emmons, Richard H., 1919-2005
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    15. General Correspondence and Administrative Files, 1957-1964

      General Correspondence and Administrative Files, 1957-1964

      • Date: 1957 1957-1964
      • Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Assistant Director (Administration)

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      SIA Acc. 92-122, DeVorkin, David H. 1944-, David H. DeVorkin Papers, circa 1976-1986

      • Date: 1976 1976-1986 circa 1976-1986
      • Creator: DeVorkin, David H., 1944-
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 13-174, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Website Records, 2012-2013

      • Date: 2012 2012-2013
      • Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 05-044, Whipple, Fred L (Fred Lawrence) 1906-2004, Fred Lawrence Whipple Papers, 1948-2000

      • Date: 1948 1948-2000
      • Creator: Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    23. The World Is Yours: Stars in the Sky

      • Date: July 15, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from a The World Is Yours episode, “Stars in the Sky.”

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