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    Forget Me Nots

    • Date: January 19, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4140" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="Auguste Deter, Alois Alzheimer's patient in November 1901, first described patient with Alzheimer's Disease, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] From the moment we began to conceptualize the content of click!, it became obvious that we’d need to investigate photography’s relation to memory from a

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    Play Our New Game! “The Mystery of the Megatherium Club: Mustaches & Mayhem”

    • Date: July 4, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: We are pleased to launch a new live-play mystery based on the Megatherium Club, an actual group of young naturalists who lived in dormitories in the Smithsonian's Castle. Geared toward teen visitors (you must be 13 years or older to play), “The Mystery of the Megatherium Club: Mustaches & Mayhem” runs July 8th-Aug. 27th, with limited timeslots daily. Spend an hour with your

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    Here at the Smithsonian: Showcasing Women’s Expertise at the Smithsonian

    • Date: March 29, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: This Women’s History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring women and their expertise at our museums.

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    Tracking Down the Elusive ‘Treasure House for Learning’

    • Date: December 23, 2014
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Software tools are helping the Smithsonian find its early websites from the 1990s on the web.

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    Link Love: 11/4/2016

    • Date: November 4, 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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    Holding on to Virtual Worlds

    • Date: June 23, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="385" caption="Games, by Axel Tregoning, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] While some people seem to enjoy fantasizing about doomsday scenarios and the end of the “real” world, a recent piece on Ars Tehchnica’s website makes it clear that virtual worlds don’t last forever, either.

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  13. Flickr user Penny Richards helps identify image.

    Un-Locke the Mystery

    • Date: March 13, 2012
    • Creator: Susannah Wells
    • Description: Even with help from the dedicated Flickr Commons community, there are still many more images to identify in the Ruel Pardee Tolman Flickr set.

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    Found in the Archives: The Trail of a Naturalist Pirate

    • Date: September 19, 2017
    • Creator: Jessica Lavin
    • Description: Barbeque. Doughboy. Free trade. Pumple-nose. Smugglers. Cortan. Crockadore. Chopsticks. William Dampier, the 17th century explorer turned privateer/pirate, is credited with introducing these words, and more than 1,000 others, into the English vernacular. He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe three times, and created the first detailed record of Australian Flora

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    Link Love: 1/23/2015

    • Date: January 23, 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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  19. Portrait of Carl William Schuermann, Jr.

    Spotlight: Carl William Schuermann, Jr., Property Clerk

    • Date: October 28, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: We're taking a closer look at Carl William Schuermann, Jr., a Smithsonian property clerk with an interest in ornithology.

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  21. Brassia caudata (Orchidaceae) watercolor by Regina O. Hughes, c. 1980, National Museum of Natural History, Catalog of Botanical Illustrations, Plate # 641.

    “Angels Can Do No More”: Regina Hughes’ Contributions as a Botanical Illustrator

    • Date: March 10, 2016
    • Description: This post discusses the contributions of Regina Hughes, a botanical illustrator, to the National Museum of Natural History.

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  23. Link Love: 3/13/2020

    • Date: March 13, 2020
    • 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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