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      From Wright Memorial to Museum for the Space Age

      • Date: November 2, 2017
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14760,size=200,left] On July 1, 2016, the current National Air and Space Museum (NASM) building, covered with a Tenessee pink marble façade and recessed glass bays, celebrated its 40th anniversary. For this, NASM reopened its central exhibition, the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, and hosted various events including greetings from Mars and from

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    3. Link Love: 5/31/2013

      • Date: May 31, 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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    5. Color photograph of dilapidated house in dark light.

      Link Love: 9/22/2017

      • Date: September 22, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales reconstructed the daunting Underground Railroad route in pictures. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Teachers! Incredible footage, objects, and images of WWI from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the National WWI Museum and Memorial, in the new app, Remembering WWI. [via History Pin] Save the date for

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    7. Plymouth Rock Piece, 1620, Photo: Harold Dorwin.

      Link Love: 11/25/2011

      • Date: November 25, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Link Love: 6/17/2011

      • Date: June 17, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: For those of us too young to have understood the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and to those who watched breathlessly as the it came down, this should interest you: an augmented reality app that projects a 3-D rendering of the Berlin Wall at its former site with the help of a smartphone. It was as big as a . . . The US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity

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    11. Greetings From Anywhere

      • Date: May 3, 2012
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: In honor of National Postcard Week May 6–12, 2012, explore postcards from the Archives and the Smithsonian’s collections.

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    13. Red heart, left image is shown with pixels, right image on blue background is smooth and contemporary.

      Link Love: 5/4/2018

      • Date: May 4, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The story of the first emoji which can be found in the Museum of Modern Art's collection. [via AIGA Eye on Design]U.S. National Archives is celebrating former first Lady and women’s rights advocate, Betty Ford, with new resources and citizen archivist activities where you can learn more about her life! [via NARA]Use this app, Native Land, to learn about the indigenous history

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      MASK Season 1, Episode 53 "Patchwork Puzzle"

      • Date: March 9, 2022
      • Description: Matt Trakker leads a special team of masked crime fighters with a fleet of hidden function vehicles known as M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armoured Strike Kommand) against Miles Mayhem and his criminal organization known as V.E.N.O.M. (Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem).

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    17. Dan Kimball adjusting the telescope at the Maria Mitchell Observatory prior to the eclipse.

      Lasting Consequences from Past Solar Eclipses

      • Date: August 22, 2017
      • Description: Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.

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    19. Link Love: 06/19/2020

      • Date: June 19, 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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    21. Saving the Treasures from the Morgue

      • Date: June 28, 2012
      • Description: US newspapers have rich photo archives that need attention to make sure they are around for future generations.

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    23. Letterhead from Professor Thorndike Saville, Associate Professor of Sanitary Engineering, stating that they never have, nor will, register women in the engineering department.

      Link Love: 6/9/2017

      • Date: June 9, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Ouch — the Society of Women Engineers has a collection of rejection letters sent to women attempting to gain entry to engineering programs. [via Atlantic]A new discovery of 300,000 year old remains of Homo sapiens shows that our species evolved in multiple locations on the African continent. [via NY Times]iNaturalist.org is launching an app that will help you identify plants

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