Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Environmental Sciences Program"
Happy Birthday!
- Date: June 27, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: Happy Birthday to Happy Birthday! On Sometime around this date in 1893 sisters Patty and Mildred J. Hill, who were both elementary school teachers in Louisville, Kentucky, first published “Happy Birthday to You”—one of the most iconic and popular songs in the English Language. Apparently, this makes June 27th “Happy Birthday Day,” so let sounds of that popular ditty roll
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See Here: 10/14/2010
- Date: October 14, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Mrs. Walter (Joan) Mondale playing the drums after a press conference at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) with, (l-r), Rep. Lindy Boggs, Rep. Walter E. Fauntroy, Warren Robbins (founder of the Museum) and Sen. Wendell Anderson, 1978, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian
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See Here: 11/5/2010
- Date: November 5, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="From left, the Disney Studio's Michael Eisner, American History Director Roger Kennedy (sporting a special T-shirt celebrating Mickey Mouse's 60th birthday), Walt Disney's nephew Roy and Mickey Mouse joined in a celebration at National Museum of American History, 1988, Dane A. Penland, Photographic print, Smithsonian
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See Here: 8/10/2010
- Date: August 10, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="ATLAS Computer Exhibit displayed in the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History (NMAH), The Atlas Computer, developed at the University of Manchester, England, was at the time the fastest computer, using germanium transistors, 1970s, by Unidentified photographer,
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See Here: 8/12/2010
- Date: August 12, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Exhibit case displays examples of the adaptation of temperate zone mammals to the climate by the use of hibernation or aestivation, The case includes a deer, a ground squirrel, a fox squirrel, and a jumping mouse, The exhibit is in the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, 1959, by Unidentified
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See Here: 2/23/2011
- Date: February 23, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Lunch has been set out on a hill at 2000 feet on Cerro Campana, Panama, Sitting on the hill from L to R are: Harold Trapido, Shirley Gage (smoking a cigarette), Graham Bell Fairchild, Watson M. Perrygo, and Marshall Hertig (with a cigarette in his mouth), 1951, Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian
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See Here: 7/1/2010
- Date: July 1, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="The Alexander Calder sculpture outside the western facade of the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, looking towards the Mall with the United States Department of Agriculture Building in the background, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,
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See Here: 12/16/2010
- Date: December 16, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="301" caption="Photograph of the "Dynamics of Evolution," a major exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History. The "People Tower" in the foreground is covered with more than 100 larger-than-life sized photos of faces that show genetic traits, such as blue or brown eyes, or black or blonde hair, May 1979, by Unidentified
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See Here: 2/25/2011
- Date: February 25, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="362" caption="The Midland skull, which was found in southwestern Texas in 1953, is on display in the National Museum of Natural History's North American Archeology Exhibit which opened in November 1962, The skull was identified as that of a female about 30 years old and is probably more than 10,000 years old, 1962, by Unidentified
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See Here: 5/21/2010
- Date: May 21, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="The History of Medicine Exhibit on Osteopathy in the Arts and Industries Building, probably in the early twentieth century, Case contains books, diagrams, models, tools and implements, images and certificates, The case also holds a bust, several photographs and a commemorative spoon displaying the likeness of Dr. Andrew
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See Here: 10/11/2010
- Date: October 11, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="The skeleton of a Hyracotherium, a tiny horse that heralded one of the major evolutionary trends of the age of mammals - the move to grazing - from the National Museum of Natural History's new exhibit "Mammals in the Limelight," opening May 30, 1985, In the background is Robert Emry, Curator of fossil mammals in the
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See Here: 10/7/2010
- Date: October 7, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="358" caption="An exhibit case containing a model of a young woman looking at herself in the mirror wearing an 1880 satin brocade wedding gown, This exhibit is part of the Hall of American Costume in the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, c. 1964, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white