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    Wait. Did That Really Happen? Snake Smashin’

    • Date: April 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Explore what happened in 1969 when a man brought a hatchet and butcher knife to Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to attack a display of snakes.

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    Link Love: 11/26/2010

    • Date: November 26, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  5. Group viewing footage of Ling-Ling on camera.

    Saving Giant Pandas: Conservation at the National Zoo

    • Date: August 23, 2016
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Today is Giant Panda cub Bao Bao’s third birthday, and yesterday her little brother, Bei Bei, turned one. This marks the first time in the forty-four years of panda conservation at the National Zoo that there have been two healthy cubs in residence at the zoo at the same time, but that’s not for lack of trying.

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    No We Can't

    • Date: December 16, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    It Takes a Village

    • Date: October 13, 2010
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Sometimes a single picture or new piece of information can open a window to a whole new perspective. In my case, it was a couple of sentences—spoken at a recent presentation at the Best Practices Exchange 2010 conference in Phoenix, Arizona—that turned out to be revelatory. The conference was a gathering of archivists, librarians, record managers, and digital curators whose

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    William Stimpson and the Smithsonian’s First Aquarium

    • Date: July 14, 2015
    • Description: William Stimpson and the first aquarium at the Smithsonian Institution.

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    Hot Topics in Archival Research, Winter 2018

    • Date: January 16, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10581,size=200,left]Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been

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    How Many Stamps Does it Take to Mail a Baby?

    • Date: June 16, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="221" caption="Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag, by Unidentified photographer, c. 1900, National Postal Museum."][/caption] Since the Smithsonian began uploading photos to the Flickr Commons, there have been some clear crowd favorites. The photo above, for example, is by far our most popular photo on the Flickr Commons,

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  17. Talking and Doing About Emergency Preparation

    • Date: May 1, 2012
    • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
    • Description: Every May 1 is a chance to do one thing about Emergency Preparation; here’s how the Smithsonian Institution Archives is doing it.

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  19. Staff and invited guests filled the historic Arts and Industries Building for the installation of Dr. David Skorton as 13th Secretary, Oct. 19, 2015. (Photo By Joyce Boghosian)

    Link Love: 10/23/2015

    • Date: October 23, 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.

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  21. Opening reception for exhibit Sesame Street: The First 20 Years at National Museum of American History.

    Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? It's at the Smithsonian!

    • Date: June 1, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Take a trip back to Sesame Street and the Smithsonian's ten year exhibition about the show in 1979.

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  23. A microscopic look at individual fibers from the Star-Spangled Banner.

    Link Love: 4/4/4014

    • Date: April 4, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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