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      Hey You, Get Off Of My Cloud!

      • Date: June 16, 2011
      • 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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    3. The world’s first airplane was built by Wilbur and Orville Wright and flown for the first time in Kitty Hawk, N.C. on Dec. 17, 1903. In addition to making those historic first flights, the Wright Flyer embodies fundamental elements of all subsequent airplanes.

      Link Love: 11/15/2013

      • Date: November 15, 2013
      • 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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    5. Secretary Ripley stands beside the model and children climb around on top.

      The Dino Detours of Uncle Beazley

      • Date: June 8, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Before Uncle Beazley, the popular life-size model of a triceratops, made its way to its final destination at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, he stopped at a couple other destinations around the Institution.

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    7. Cover of the supplementary material for March of Science, an episode of the radio program The World is Yours, issued January 15, 1940.

      The World is Yours: Smithsonian on the Radio

      • Date: June 8, 2017
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: The Smithsonian's "The World is Yours" series was one of the most successful educational radio programs of of the 1930s.

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    9. Black & white snapshot of Dr. Priscilla Reining smiling.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Priscilla Copeland Reining

      • Date: January 18, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Anthropologist Dr. Priscilla Copeland Reining, social anthropologist and Africanist, coordinated the Smithsonian's Urgent Anthropology Program, specialized in desertification, population, fertility, and HIV/AIDS, and pioneered the use of satellite imagery in conjunction with ethnographic data. #Groundbreaker

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      Both Sides Now

      • Date: April 13, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="197" caption="Candice Bergen, October 1981, LIFE Magazine, © Time Inc."][/caption] Most of us know what it’s like to be the subject of a photograph and to take one, to be seen and to see. But some of us, due to unusual circumstances, know more about that than others. In her  1984 autobiography, Knock Wood, Candice Bergen wrote with

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      Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

      • Date: June 16, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Since The Bigger Picture began in early 2009, I’ve written a number of posts about what might be called camera traps, situations where cameras are installed to collect evidence of one kind of unusual or unwanted behavior or another. Red light cameras are a controversial example; across the country and on an almost daily basis, local municipalities and motorists argue about

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    15. Oil painting of woman sitting at desk next to sunlit window.

      Link Love: 3/10/2017

      • Date: March 10, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: 2017 Women's History Month edition!Explore the changing role of female artists with Europeana. [via Europeana Twitter]The Smithsonian's Latino Center is accepting applications for their 2017 Young Ambassadors Program for graduating high school seniors! [via Smithsonian's Office of Fellowships and Internships]You can help transribe Phyllis Diller's joke file from the

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    17. Photograph album of travel through Indonesia, 1930, by Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Archipenko papers, Archives of American Art, Digital ID: 13116.

      Everything you wanted to know about digitizing your photo album, but were afraid to ask!

      • Date: December 19, 2013
      • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
      • Description: Welcome to Throwback Thursday! This holiday season, I hope to inspire you to take a trip down memory lane to the land of erstwhile and bygone days of the family photo album. What better time to pull these one of a kind treasures off the shelves than during the family festivities! Recently over the Thanksgiving holiday, I rediscovered my own family’s quasi-prehistoric,

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      Come Fly With Me

      • Date: October 21, 2010
      • 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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      Rediscovering Elizabeth’s Smile

      • Date: November 18, 2010
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    23. Shark Attack Tracks

      • Date: August 8, 2013
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Research on shark attacks began at the National Museum of Natural History in 1958 when the Shark Research Panel was formed to track attacks and develop shark repellents.

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