Results for "Indian American Story: Blog for the Smithsonian Indian American Heritage Project (Blog)"
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Sybil Hamlet’s History of the National Zoo
- Date: May 17, 2018
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Did you know that the first beaver came to the National Zoological Park in 1894? Or that the first animals on the official zoo grounds were two Indian Elephants, Dunk and Gold Dust? Surely, you knew that the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok donated an albino Asiatic turtle to the National Zoo in 1966? You didn’t know that? Well, thanks to the work of Sybil Hamlet in 1985, you can now
The World Is Yours: Smithsonian Annual Report of Scientific Progress
- Date: August 6, 2020
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Listen to reenactments of two articles that were published in the 1936 Smithsonian Annual Report as broadcast during The World Is Yours episode “Smithsonian Annual Report of Scientific Progress.”