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National Portrait Gallery
James Buchanan | National Portrait Gallery
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ArtistGeorge Peter Alexander Healy, 15 Jul 1813 - 24 Jun 1894SitterJames Buchanan, 21 Apr 1791 - 1 Jun 1868 Date1859 TypePainting MediumOil on …
Film Festivals
The Women Directors Film Festival: Visionaries, Then and Now
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Join us for a free all-day film festival highlighting the visionary work of women film directors across time, space, and creative contexts. SAAM …
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Warner Bros
OMG, Michelle Pfeiffer Found Her Iconic Catwoman Whip From "Batman Returns"
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A piece of '90s cinema history!
Quartz
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The High-Tech, Humane Ways Biologists Can Identify Individual Animals (Smithsonian)
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article https://share.qz.com/news/2349534/ Quartz Humans have driver's licenses and fingerprints, but cows have nose-prints and zebras have en_US The High-Tech, Humane Ways Biologists Can Identify Individual
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Voices in Dangerous Times: Language Endangerment & Political Instability
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Join us for free presentations on how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written …
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The Freedmen's Bureau Papers | Smithsonian Digital Volunteers
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Thank you for being a digital volunteer! It’s very important that this work is performed in a standardized manner, so please make the effort to read …
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Storm Rages in Cosmic Teacup | ChandraBlog | Fresh Chandra News
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The Teacup, SDSS J1430+1339 Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Cambridge/G. Lansbury et al; Optical: NASA/STScI/W. Keel et al. Fancy a cup of cosmic tea? …
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Central Europe
The Puli: A Symbol of Hungarian Pride
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“If you don’t know, the Puli dog looks like a mop, basically, but it has a very playful nature. And the work process of this sculpture is …
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Trains
Metro Schedule For March 22-23: Single-Tracking
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WASHINGTON, DC — There are plenty of things to do and see in the D.C. area this weekend — including the Shamrock Fest 2019, Spring Wine Fling, and …
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Indigenous Peoples
Red dresses highlight violence against indigenous women
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The REDress Project by Jaime Black opened this month at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. An exhibition of 35 red dresses at a museum in Washington, DC, is highlighting crimes against
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#GorillaStory: The Troop is Back Together!
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While it has been an adjustment for the group to all be back together, their social dynamics are slowly returning back to normal. We have seen Baraka …
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Diets
| Smithsonian Institution
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A number of proprietary medicines claiming to treat or cure diabetes were available in the United States throughout the nineteenth and early …
Puppies
Puppies in the Snow | Freer|Sackler
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ProvenanceProvenance information is currently unavailable Previous Owner(s) Anne van Biema American, 1915 - 2004 Label Koryusai established kachoga-which …
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Mei Xiang Showing Signs of Estrus
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On March 15, Mei Xiang started exhibiting behavioral signs that breeding season is approaching! A urinary hormone analysis confirmed that her change …
Great Britain
Stamp from the Stamp Act of 1765
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TitleScott Catalogue Great Britain RM31a In 1765, the British Parliament passed An Act for Granting and Applying Certain Stamp Duties in the British …
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Giant X-ray Chimneys and Selection Effects | ChandraBlog | Fresh Chandra News
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Astronomers frequently talk about selection effects, where results can be biased because of the way that the objects in a sample are selected. For …
National Portrait Gallery
Lee Simonson Self-Portrait | National Portrait Gallery
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ArtistLee Simonson, 26 Jun 1888 - 23 Jan 1967SitterLee Simonson, 26 Jun 1888 - 23 Jan 1967 Datec. 1912 TypePainting MediumOil on …
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Film Festivals
Jazz Film Festival
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019 The troubled life and career of the jazz musician, Charlie "Bird" Parker. Warner Bros. Theater Thursday, April 11, 2019 Two …
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Star Trek
Star Trek Starship Enterprise Studio Model - Conserving the Star Trek starship Enterprise Studio Model
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Visit Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space …
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Seabirds of America
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African-American News
National Museum of African American History and Culture to unveil rediscovered Harriet Tubman photo
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The “iconic portraits [of Harriet Tubman] present her as either stern or frail”, the director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American …
National Geographic
African-American News
How This 1959 Rally On Police Brutality Still Resonates Today
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Part one of a four-part series from the film archive of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Sept. 16, 2016 - In this profound piece of footage filmed for a documentary
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Big Cats
Nashville Zoo: Clouded leopard makes 'history' again with pregnancy
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Niran, the Nashville Zoo's first clouded leopard to be born from artificial insemination is pregnant through natural reproduction with her first …
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NHD in 1-2-3
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Previous Workshops (Fall 2018) 1. Finding and Narrowing a Topic Date: Saturday, September 8, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Are you in need of a topic …
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African-American News
This 1960s Group Empowered Black Youth in Brooklyn
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Part two of a four-part series from the film archive of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Sept. 16, 2016 - Youth in Action, a community organization in the Bedford-Stuyvesant
Ford Motor Company
Record Photograph of Albert Kahn, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution
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Creator:Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department Subject:Kahlo, FridaKahn, AlbertRivera, Diego Type:Photographs Date:1932 August 2 Place of …
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Chandra :: Photo Album :: Galactic Center :: March 21, 2019
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Want to take a trip to the center of the Milky Way? Check out a new immersive, ultra-high-definition visualization. This 360-movie offers an …
Columbia University
Link Love: 3/22/2019
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In a new YouTube series, Smithsonian paleontologists answer questions from the public! [via Smithsonian Voices] Now you can help describe over 5,000 …
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MAKER MORNINGS: Pump it Up! - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian
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Celebrate rhythm, music, and movement at the Hirshhorn! Join us at MAKER MORNINGS: Pump it Up as we explore the exhibition Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse …
Marine Mammals
Support Us | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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Get ready for mating season! Mammal sexual strategies can be occasionally hysterical, occasionally horrifying, and often times under-studied. Join …