North American Wild Flowers, Mary Vaux Walcott (1860–1940), Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1925, Plate 336: flower The Fossil Record, a newsletter put out by the Smithsonian Department of Paleobiology, includes more »
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On June 26 twenty-three Catholic University of America (CUA) library program students and two instructors, Diane Schnuurpusch and Michele Masias, came to the National Museum of American History and the more »
In terms of astronomy, things were never the same after the year 1609. Galileo Galilei got his hands on a telescope and made his watershed observations, which challenged views of more »
Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius Magna, Longeque Admirabilia Spectacula Pandens, Suspiciendaque Proponens Unicuique [The great starry messenger], 1610, f10 verso, two moons On July 20, 1969, two members of the Apollo more »
Happy Bastille Day! Lieutenant-colonel (Ninian) Pinkney, Travels through the south of France and in the interior of the provinces of Provence and Languedoc, in the years 1807 and 1808, 1814, more »
Don't worry, not all the work is so glamorous! Hoover Company, Hoover: The Story of a Crusade, 1926, Hoover test of woman vacuuming There are many behind-the-scenes folks who volunteer more »
Portrait of Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin On July 2, 1900, Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin flew the first airship, later dubbed zeppelin, near Lake Constance in Germany, with five passengers more »