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    1. A fence built by an unknown insect to protect its nest of eggs, by Troy Alexander, Tambopata Research Center.

      Link Love: 9/6/2013

      • Date: September 6, 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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    3. A close-up view of a parchment sheet, covered closely with black ink writing. A passage is highlighted in yellow, “Estate at Studley and Calne and other Places in the County of Wilts[hire].”

      Tracing Inheritance in the Hungerford Deed

      • Date: September 24, 2020
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: The Hungerford Deed split an inherited estate between two sisters—but what do we know about those properties? We’ve dug deep into one of them here.

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    5. Camping Out, Smithsonian-Style

      • Date: June 10, 2021
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: See how Smithsonian scientists have always been willing to do what is needed to further their research—including camping in all conditions!

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    7. Aerial view of Barro Colorado Island at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 86-10915.

      The Legend of the Beer Machine

      • Date: September 30, 2014
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Oktoberfest is here! So sit back relax and learn about a Smithsonian beer legend!

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      More Thoughts on the Art of Science

      • Date: January 7, 2010
      • Description: In the most recent issue of Ezra (Winter 2010, pg. 3), Cornell University’s quarterly magazine, there is a small feature about photographs by graduate student Heather Flores of fruit fly ovaries. These images won the NYSTEM Stem Cell Awareness Day Image Contest. Besides the fact that there is a contest devoted to images that demonstrate the visual beauty of stem cell science,

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      Augmented Reality? Something Wrong With That?

      • Date: June 18, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_1356" align="aligncenter" width="251" caption="Tommy Dodgen, age 4, standing by the largest lamp in the world : Tampa, Florida, by unknown photographer, 1947, State Library and Archives of Florida, Commerce Collection."][/caption] The cover shot of Popular Science’s July issue, which focuses on the future of energy, uses some interesting new

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    13. Ellen speaks to visitors on a tour of collections in the Natural History Museum Building. She is holder up documents from a folder.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Alers

      • Date: April 7, 2021
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • 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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    15. Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives, Accession 10-204: Latino Working Committee, Administrative Records, 1986-2004, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Happy Anniversary to the Smithsonian Latino Center!

      • Date: May 4, 2017
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look back at the history of the Smithsonian Latino Center on their 20th anniversary.

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    17. Beautiful Worms, by Wm Jas, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic.

      Mealworm Chocolate Chip Cookies, Anyone?

      • Date: September 1, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Earlier this year, I blogged about a recipe for “Elephant Skin and Ivory” (a black and white tinted candy) that I found in the 1984 National Museum of Natural History Docent Cookbook. Well, while researching the history of the same museum’s Insect Zoo for my recent blog post, I came across another recipe that I'd like to share—mealworm chocolate chip cookies.This recipe

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      Celebrating the Smithsonian Latino Center

      • Date: September 17, 2020
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Documenting the history, programs, and activities of the Smithsonian Latino Center through the capture of their websites and their other online sites.

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    21. February 4, 1925 Letter Charles Doolittle Walcott to William Howard Taft, Record Unit 45 - Office of the Secretary, Records, 1890-1929, Smithsonian Institution Archive, neg. no. SIA2015-001132.

      Hoping it Will Help

      • Date: December 2, 2014
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: How one dollar launched a fundraising campaign in 1925.

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    23. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

      Hearing the Unheard: the Smithsonian and the Riots of 1968

      • Date: September 20, 2016
      • Description: The riots following King’s assassination in 1968 transformed Smithsonian’s relationship to black history and culture.

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