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    1. Off-white page with various swatches of green and handwritten names such as

      Link Love: 2/9/2018

      • Date: February 9, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Smithsonian Books is publishing a pocket-sized version of "Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours," a 19th-century guide to color for artists, scientists, naturalists, and anthropologists. [via Colossal]The boundary of our known universe has expanded; a population of planets was discovered outside the Milky Way. [via WAPO]The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's director, Kim

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    3. October 3, 1958 Memorandum from J. Allen Hynek to Satellite Tracking Program Staff on the first anniversary of Sputnik, page 1.

      Right Places at the Right Time

      • Date: October 21, 2013
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: Recollections of the October 4, 1957, Sputnik I launch and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Satellite Tracking Program.

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    5. Black and white image of African American woman holding her baby, looking out the window.

      Link Love: 4/13/2018

      • Date: April 13, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: What's changed, and hasn't — the Fair Housing Act 50 years later. [via National Museum of American History]A 1749 book, The Governess, advocated for female literacy when the literacy rate was 40% in England. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Library of Congress has archival materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and records on historical Supreme Court cases now

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    7. This outfit designed for female factory workers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture had removable sleeves, 1941.

      Science Service, Up Close: Making Do

      • Date: June 4, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Science Service: Up Close - Looking at the "defense fashions" for female workers during World War II.

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    9. Color portrait of woman smiling

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Arianna Curtis

      • Date: January 10, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    11. Visitors head into the Arts and Industries Building,

      Wait. Did That Really Happen? Murder at the Museum

      • Date: January 16, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: On January 16, 1907, a man carrying packages asked a carpenter for directions to a former colleague's office in the U.S. National Museum. Minutes later, that man pulled a rifle out of one of the packages and murdered an illustrator working for the Smithsonian.

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    13. An excerpt from He is a Negro Still, by Solomon G. Brown.

      "He is a Negro Still": The Poetry of Solomon Brown

      • Date: February 9, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: An excerpt from "He is a Negro Still," by Solomon G. Brown, the Smithsonian's first African American employee.

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    15. Demobilized women soldiers sent home, 1945

      Link Love: 9/9/2016

      • Date: September 9, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: New to the interwebs: a massive archive of 150 years of photography capturing Russian life from more than 40 institutions and collections. [via Hyperallergic]Nominate your favorite .gov website for the U.S. Federal Government End of Term Web Archive! [via The Signal, Library of Congress]Why save a computer virus, indeed?! [via The Conversation]Giant pandas are no longer

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    17. When Queen Elizabeth II Visited America's Castle

      • Date: July 7, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Forty years ago tomorrow, July 8th, 1976, Queen Elizabeth II visited the Smithsonian as part of her Bicentennial visit to the U.S. She was welcomed by Smithsonian Secretary, S. Dillon Ripley, Chief Justice Warren Burger, Chancellor of the Smithsonian, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, and public well-wishers while a group of costumed musicians played flourishes and fanfares

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    19. The Education of George C. Wheeler - Part III

      • Date: February 7, 2013
      • Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.

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    21. Getty Image Used in Game of Thrones Recap of Season 6, Episode 1.

      Link Love: 5/20/2016

      • Date: May 20, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: SPOILER ALERT! The Getty Museum is summarizing Game of Thrones episodes each Monday on Tumblr. (via Mental Floss)The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has openly released their patent and trademark datasets to developers. (via Info Docket)Daunting - "Archiving a Website for Ten Thousand Years." (via Atlantic)The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery now has a

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      "Roughing" It

      • Date: June 9, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Having grown up in a major U.S. city with a family that considered spending a week in a grass hut camping, I committed to giving my daughter more exposure to the great outdoors with all the wonderful state and national parks near Washington D.C. However, lack of sleep and rehydrated food was not what I had in mind.Throughout history, Smithsonian researchers have conducted

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