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    Ready-made Home for a Scimitar Horned Oryx and Przewalski’s Horse

    • Date: June 25, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: When Dr. Ted Reed became director of the National Zoological Park in 1959, he committed himself to carrying out the zoo’s complete set of mandates that included research, education, and conservation of endangered species. All these came together in a new non-public facility, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, founded in 1975 in Front Royal, Virginia.

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  3. Link Love: 5/31/2019

    • Date: May 31, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Anna R. Cohn

    • Date: April 3, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Anna R. Cohn, Director, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), 1988–2014, toured groundbreaking exhibitions across the United States. She joined the Smithsonian in 1983 as director of the international exhibition “The Precious Legacy” and later organized “Generations” for the S. Dillon Ripley Center’s International Gallery. #Groundbreaker

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    Spreading a Little Kindness Here at Smithsonian

    • Date: November 13, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Couldn’t we all use a little more warmth and kindness in the world? For World Kindness Day, we’re highlighting acts of kindness by Smithsonian employees that were featured in the staff newsletter, "The Torch."

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  9. JoGayle Howard at Dissecting Microscope, 1982.

    JoGayle Howard: Pioneer in Endangered Species Reproduction

    • Date: March 28, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Theriogenologist JoGayle Howard was a pioneer in the assisted reproduction of many endangered species.

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  11. Link Love: 10/18/2019

    • Date: October 18, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse

    • Date: January 24, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.

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  15. A group of people hold up “welcome” signs at an entrance of the National Museum of American History.

    We Apologize for the Inconvenience: Shutting Down the Smithsonian

    • Date: November 14, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: In 2019, the Smithsonian faced the repercussions of the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown, but the institution is no stranger to the dreaded furlough.

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  17. Langley with His Aerodrome.

    Collegial, Yet Cautious: the Wright Brothers and Samuel P. Langley

    • Date: December 15, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: A look at the relationship between Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley and the Wright Brothers during the sometimes contentious race to achieve flight.

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    Mac Salad and Two Scoops Rice

    • Date: May 14, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Archives takes a look back at the exhibition, "From Bentō to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai’i."

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    Link Love: 6/5/2015

    • Date: June 5, 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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    Link Love: 7/8/2016

    • Date: July 8, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • 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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