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  1. Mori Arinori: Japanese Statesman

    • Date: May 30, 2013
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: In 1872, at the young age of twenty-five, Mori Arinori (1847-1889) traveled to America as the first Charge d’Affaires from the Meiji government. His trip included a visit to the Smithsonian where he established a close relationship with Smithsonian Secretary Joseph Henry.

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    Miscellaneous Adventures: Exhibit Photographs

    • Date: July 31, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Look inside the Smithsonian Institution Archives as we open up an exhibits folder of miscellaneous images.

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  5. Estimated Route Welty and Palmer Traveled.

    A Race On the Wild Side

    • Date: February 21, 2013
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Ride along as two young boys go on the adventure of lifetime, racing a stolen horse and buggy around Washington, D.C.

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    What’s in a Word?

    • Date: November 20, 2013
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: How can you help the Smithsonian uncover new information about its collections? Try your hand transcribing documents, diaries, and field books at the new Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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  9. Christine Smith and Gary Sturm Ice Dancing, 1981, by Dane Penland, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. 80-19963-36.

    Skating Smithsonian

    • Date: February 6, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: You don’t have to go to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia to learn about ice dancing. Check out the Smithsonian ice dancers who used the sport as a great way to unwind and stay warm in the winter.

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  11. Large opening at the excacvation site yielding an abundance of ammonium chloride, 1872. Record Unit 7000 - James Smithson Collection, 1796-1951, c. 1974, 1981-1983, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2009-0856.

    Smithsonian Backs Journey to the Center of the Earth

    • Date: April 1, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: In 1864, Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth sparked people’s imagination, but have you heard that before the novel was published, the Smithsonian attempted a journey of its own.

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  13. Aerial view of Barro Colorado Island at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 86-10915.

    The Legend of the Beer Machine

    • Date: September 30, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Oktoberfest is here! So sit back relax and learn about a Smithsonian beer legend!

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  15. Translation of the Prize Questions in the Class of Sciences from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium (page 1) , 1874, Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium, Record Unit 32, Box 1, Folder: Miscellaneous 37, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2014-04186.

    The Mysterious Miscellaneous 37

    • Date: May 13, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: It is too hard to know everything that lives inside an archival collection. Join us in opening up some of our miscellaneous folders and discover what is inside!

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  17. Mineralogists Eugene Jarosewich, Chemist, and Roy S. Clarke, Jr., Associate Curator, examine samples from a Mexican meteorite shower for the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Record Unit 371, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 94-1533.

    Miscellaneous Mysteries of the Universe

    • Date: October 28, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: In this next edition of our Miscellaneous Adventures, choose your own adventures by diving into the folders yourself in the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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