Results for "Foxes"
Animals Behind the Castle: The Department of Living Animals
- Date: July 18, 2017
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: Before Congress created the National Zoo, the Smithsonian's Department of Living Animals kept it’s collection of animals behind the Castle.
What Did the Smithsonian Exhibit When it First Opened?
- Date: May 22, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: An overview of what the Smithsonian collected and displayed when it first opened to the public in 1855.
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Link Love: 9/11/2015
- Date: September 11, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Exhibit
- Date: July 30, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Thirty-six years ago today, M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Wounds opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the response was overwhelming.
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Donkeys and Alpacas and Cows Oh My!
- Date: May 12, 2011
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Silver Fox Rabbit at the Kid's Farm, 2008, by Meghan Murphy, National Zoological Park. "][/caption] Five years in the making, the Kid's Farm at the National Zoological Park opened in June 2004.
April Fool’s, Mr. Lyon!
- Date: March 31, 2016
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: The National Zoo gets flooded with phone calls in a 1919 April Fool’s prank.
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See Here: 8/12/2010
- Date: August 12, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Exhibit case displays examples of the adaptation of temperate zone mammals to the climate by the use of hibernation or aestivation, The case includes a deer, a ground squirrel, a fox squirrel, and a jumping mouse, The exhibit is in the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, 1959, by Unidentified
Link Love: 8/07/2020
- Date: August 7, 2020
- 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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Smithsonian Archives Fair Tommorrow, October 22nd
- Date: October 21, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 2/24/2017
- Date: February 24, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Hirshhorn and neighboring areas are enveloped in polka dots, and we love it. [via Washington Post]A new African American history treasure trove; digitized post-Civil War 'wanted ads' searching for love ones separated by slavery. [via NPR]11 African American inventors (including the Smithsonian's own Regent, Dr. Shirley Jackson) who changed the world. [via Mental Floss]The
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Them Bones
- Date: April 27, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Look at enough photographs and it’s inevitable that, at some point, you’ll find yourself pondering mortality and photography’s relationship to death. Because the medium so effectively captures fragments of lives, events, and data that have come and gone, you’re always looking at and trying to make sense of something that’s over, finished, part of the past. Writers—particularly
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?