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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Marian H. Pettibone

    • Date: April 12, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Bonus anecdote about Dr. Pettitbone:"While standing in line for a job interview during WWII, she overheard that men standing in the next line were going to get paid much more than those in her line. She then switched lines and became a spot welder, rather than a typist."

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    Seeing another world, this one behind the Iron Curtain…

    • Date: May 26, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="293" caption="Completed SA-2 missile site showing characteristic Star of David pattern, National Security Archive, The George Washington University"][/caption] Strangely beautiful surveillance photographs shot from an American U-2 spy plane triggered a terrifying nuclear standoff, The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In a new click!

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    Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Man! In a Raincoat!

    • Date: January 11, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4184" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Obama Billboard in Times Square, New York, January 7, 2010, Courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] Both the media and Times Square were aflutter recently over a photograph of President Obama used without permission on a huge two-sided billboard in midtown Manhattan to advertise men’s coats.

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    Ring Out the Old, Scan in the Nude

    • Date: December 31, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption=""Backscatter" x-ray scan, courtesy of Flickr user publik16, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Following the Christmas Day capture of a passenger, dubbed “The Underwear Bomber,” who attempted to blow up an American airliner, controversy swirls around the use and efficacy of full body scanners and the fate of

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    A New Solution for an Old Scrapbook

    • Date: November 14, 2017
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: The Archives recently received several scrapbooks created by Elizabeth C. Reed during her husband's tenure as Director of the National Zoological Park (NZP). These scrapbooks contain information about noteworthy events and consist mostly of newspaper clippings gathered from newspapers around the country. Anyone who's attempted to preserve scrapbooks can tell you it's a bit of

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  11. At the Archives Star Wars Is

    • Date: December 17, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In honor of Star Wars: The Force Awakens opening tomorrow, here are some Star Wars related things from the Archives Collections.

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    Women in Science Wednesday: Wikipedia Edition, Part 4!

    • Date: March 30, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Mary Agnes Chase now has a Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers. Mary Agnes Chase now has a Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mercedes Arroyo

    • Date: July 8, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    Women in Science Wednesday: Wikipedia Edition, Part 2!

    • Date: March 16, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Reproductive biologist Janine Brown now has Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers. Join us Saturday, March 19th, to help write more women into history! Reproductive biologist Janine Brown now has Wikipedia page thanks to our volunteers.

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    Women in Science Wednesday: Dorothy Annie Elizabeth ("Daisy") Garrod

    • Date: August 7, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    Miscellaneous Adventures: Fosberg

    • Date: November 17, 2016
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures dives into Raymond Fosberg’s research on the flora of Sri Lanka.

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    Digitized Photos and Back Stories

    • Date: October 22, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Discovering the “back story” behind a unique digitized image in the Science Service collections.

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