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    1. Mother pygmy hippopotamus and calf at the National Zoological Park.

      Link Love: 04/02/2021

      • Date: April 2, 2021
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a biweekly 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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    3. 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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    5. You Spin Me Round - Frisbee Festivals on the Mall

      • Date: May 23, 2019
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Starting in 1977, the National Air and Space Museum, with assistance from the International Frisbee Association, Wham-O Manufacturing Company, volunteer instructors from several states, and the Washington Area Frisbee Club, held their first Frisbee Festival on the National Mall.

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    7. A woman holds a box and smiles at a camera. She is standing in front of a lunar rock sample.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Priscilla L. Strain

      • Date: November 6, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Priscilla L. Strain has worked for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies since 1974 as a Research Assistant, 1974-79, Geologist, 1979-87, and Program Manager, 1987–present. She is currently the curator of the museum’s lunar rock collection and manages the center’s exhibits and programs. #Groundbreaker

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    9. Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954), Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1

      Found: Two People in the Flickr Commons!

      • Date: January 16, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The story of how an 2 unidentified portraits in the Archives' collection was identified with the help of Flickr users.

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    11. Is that you, John Quincy Adams?

      • Date: February 20, 2012
      • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
      • Description: In honor of President’s Day, the Smithsonian Institution Archives shares letters from President John Quincy Adams from our collections.

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      Mapping the Moon

      • Date: May 19, 2009
      • Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of

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    15. The Renwick Gallery, presently under renovation, is scheduled to reopen this coming November.

      Link Love: 4/24/2015

      • Date: April 24, 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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    17. Bridget Shea leans back in a theater seat. Caption: Bridget Shea was the manager of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Samuel P. Langley IMAX Theater and the Albert Einstein Planetarium, 1992–97, and manager of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater, which she also helped design, 1997–2000. Shea supervised the operations of the theaters and prioritized accessibility services, such as closed captioning and audio descriptions. #Groundbreaker

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Bridget Shea

      • Date: March 4, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Bridget Shea was the manager of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Samuel P. Langley IMAX Theater and the Albert Einstein Planetarium, 1992–97, and manager of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater, which she also helped design, 1997–2000. Shea supervised the operations of the theaters and prioritized accessibility

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    19. Link Love: 6/28/2013

      • Date: June 28, 2013
      • 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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    21. Portrait of Cipalla. She is wearing a blazer and button down.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Rita C. Cipalla

      • Date: December 29, 2021
      • 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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    23. The culture and university district of “Olympicopolis” will be created on this triangular site (4.5 acres). The site is in front of the London Aquatics Centre and a few hundred yards from the former Olympic Stadium and ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture and observation tower. Courtesy of Kevin Allen/London Legacy Development Corp. (LLDC)

      Link Love: 1/30/2015

      • Date: January 30, 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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