Results for "Update"
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
Vote Women in Science
- Date: August 11, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: It is that scrappy time of year where we ask you to nominate your favorite Smithsonian collection, experience, or in the Archives' case, people. We typcially refer to them as groundbreakers. We have some stiff competition in the science category with the Hope Diamond and the 3D Lincoln Life Mask, however, we feel Smithsonian female scientists have made such a significant
- Webpage
Specimen Song: A Montana Mystery
- Date: March 9, 2022
- Description: Cattle inspector and sometimes lawman Gabriel Du Pré travels from Montana to Washington, DC, to perform fiddle music from his Métis Indian heritage in the Smithsonian festival. Du Pré is entangled in solving mysterious death of a Cree Indian woman. When he returns to Montana the murders follow, each with the same "MO."
- Blog Post
"Woman's Work"
- Date: March 13, 2009
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: In June, 2008, the Smithsonian was the 4th institution to join the Flickr Commons . One of the things I enjoy most as a visitor to the Commons is searching on a random word or phrase and seeing how that idea is represented. Six members of the Commons posted photos and tagged with ‘womensday’ in honor of the 2009 International Women's Day. I searched on ‘work’ and other related
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Helene C. Muller-Landau
- Date: March 27, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Dr. Helene C. Muller-Landau, Lead Scientist, CTFS Global Forest Carbon Initiative, has researched the patterns, causes, and consequences of plant diversity for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute since 2008. As leader of the program, Muller-Landau strives to implement standardized measurements of forest carbon stocks and fluxes across forest research sites.
In like a lion, out like a lamb...
- Date: March 16, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: The age-old adage “in like a lion and out like a lamb” refers to the wildly varying weather in the month of March. Certainly, this March has been no different, with snow and nasty storms pelting the northeast, and all of us dreaming of cherry blossom season after a long winter. While we all wait it out, check out some lions and lambs, both subdued and fierce, from across the
- Document
Charles G. Abbot Tests Solar Steam Boiler | Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Authority Record/EAC
Grisol, Mayeul
- Document
Aug 25 "Star Wars" Droids C-3PO and R2-D2 Are Prepared to Go on Exhibit | Smithsonian Institution Ar
- Document
Aug 29 Smithson's Gift Arrives in New York | Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Document
Alexander Graham Bell Demonstrates Telephone for Henry Family | Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Document
Jun 26 Armed Forces Hall Showcases Underwater Exploration | Smithsonian Institution Archives