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      In Memoriam: Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

      • Date: December 17, 2018
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives remembers Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Helene C. Muller-Landau

      • Date: March 27, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Helene C. Muller-Landau, Lead Scientist, CTFS Global Forest Carbon Initiative, has researched the patterns, causes, and consequences of plant diversity for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute since 2008. As leader of the program, Muller-Landau strives to implement standardized measurements of forest carbon stocks and fluxes across forest research sites.

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      First collective Smithsonian staff photo?!?

      • Date: July 1, 2010
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_7327" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="The Smithsonian Institution Building, "The Castle""][/caption] When I'm walking around the National Mall, I often hear people exclaim, "There's the Smithsonian!" as they point to the large red Smithsonian Castle near the Metro exit; something I also would have assumed before my first visit to the Mall.

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      Happy 100th Flag Day!

      • Date: June 14, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: In celebration of Flag Day, a look at the series of flags designed for the Smithsonian’s museums and research centers, 1965.

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    9. Color photograph of female scientist on tower.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Kelly Korreck

      • Date: March 22, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    11. Visitors to the National Zoo's Invertebrate exhibit. National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution.

      Link Love: 6/20/2014

      • Date: June 20, 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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      Solving the unsolved

      • Date: April 9, 2010
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="Himantura signifier (Stingray), 2002, by Sandra J. Raredon, Digital Radiograph, National Museum of Natural History, Division of Fishes, Image ID# AFS 266"][/caption] The Smithsonian is hosting an online conference about problem-solving which will look at how we are working on solving some of our most complicated issues,

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    15. Portrait of Kimberly Arcand holding astrophysical model

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Kimberly Arcand

      • Date: January 4, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In honor of the 2016 Smithsonian Education Award recipient, Kimberly Arcand. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory visualization lead, Kimberly Arcand, makes astrophysics more accessible with coding programs for girls and boys using NASA data, and cutting-edge Chandra data visualization projects such as data-based 3D printed supernova remnants. #Groundbreaker

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      Tragedy, Towers, and Romance at the Smithsonian

      • Date: February 14, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_6823,size=150,left] On this Valentine’s Day, you might wonder if Cupid has ever shot any arrows around the Institution. The Smithsonian has been the site of many romances and even some tragedies, so today I’ll tell a story which combines both. In the process of recording his oral history interviews, Dr. T. Dale Stewart, a physical anthropologist at the

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    19. Stamp with a red-ish brown tone that features the Smithsonian Institution Building. The text reads: “3 cent sign, 1846 Smithsonian Institution 1946.

      Celebrating the Smithsonian Centennial

      • Date: July 20, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: In August 1996, the Smithsonian marked its 150th anniversary with a huge birthday celebration on the National Mall. For its sesquicentennial, a term which this author constantly forgets no matter how many times she looks it up, the Institution threw itself a two-day birthday party, sprinkled with special exhibit tents, concerts, nineteen birthday cakes, a special website, and

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    21. The Smithsonian in Wartime web exhibit

      Smithsonian in Wartime – A New Web Exhibit!

      • Date: August 9, 2016
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Announcing a new web exhibit exploring the Smithsonian’s role in the nation’s war efforts.

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    23. Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, 1900, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Medicine and Science. Photograph taken as part of expedition to view the solar eclipse of May 1900 in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Note the elaborate tent that housed the Smithsonian’s large horizontal telescope.

      Smillie and the 1900 Eclipse

      • Date: June 9, 2009
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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