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• Tea time in Bhutan.(ARTbuzz)

  - 2007-05-01

  Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt, whose collection of Asian art has been bequeathed to the Ringling Museum, was appointed to the Leadership Committee of the Smithsonian Institution's Folk Life Festival for 2008, meaning she had the chance to visit Bhutan, the festival's featured country, and sip tea with...

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• National Gems.(REPORT)

  - 2006-01-01

  The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History holds one of the world's most esteemed gem collections. In The National Gem Collection, Dr. Jeffrey Post, curator of the national gem and mineral collection, discusses everything from diamonds and lapis lazuli to the Hope Diamond and other...

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• Faith and Politics Institute Sponsors Special Children's Program

  - 2005-07-18

  News Advisory: Dr. Arthur Jones, a clinical psychologist, author and expert on the history and meaning of the moving spirituals created by African slaves, will present a special children's program at the Robert V. Murray Boys and Girls Club in Southeast Washington on Tuesday, July 19. The program, which is...

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• Faith & Politics Institute Sponsors Special Children's Program

  - 2005-07-12

  News Advisory: Dr. Arthur Jones, a clinical psychologist, author and expert on the history and meaning of the moving spirituals created by African slaves, will present a special children's program at the Robert V. Murray Boys and Girls Club in Southeast Washington on Tuesday, July 19. The program, which is...

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• One step closer: selection of Black history museum director and museum site expected in 2005

  - 2005-02-10

  The appointment in December of the high-profile 19-member advisory council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture marked the newest chapter in the long effort to establish a national African American history museum in Washington. Named by the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents, the council, which is...

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• Smithsonian names members of council, advisory committee for National African American History Museum

  - 2004-12-30

  WASHINGTON The Smithsonian Board of Regents, the institution's governing body, named the members of the founding Council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in early December. The new museum will be the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, art,...

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• Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery Presents First Annual Paul Peck Presidential Awards

  - 2002-10-16

  News Advisory: WHAT:The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery will present Gen. Brent Scowcroft and Dr. Richard E. Neustadt with the inaugural Paul Peck Presidential Awards, which honor distinguished individual achievement related to the presidency. Scowcroft won the award for "Service to a President," and Neustadt won for "Portrayal of a President."...

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• Space Day 2002...Adventure to Mars!

  - 2002-04-23

  News Advisory: WHAT: Space Day is the award-winning educational initiative designed to inspire young people's interest in science, math, and technology through the wonders of space. The national celebration kicks off at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum NASM at 6th and Independence Ave., SW. (Please enter through...

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• Proceedings of the eighty-second annual meeting.

  - 2001-12-01

  The eighty-second annual meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Society was held Thursday, 3 May, through Sunday, 6 May, 2001, in the Fayetteville Hilton, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in joint session with the Arkansas Audubon Society. The meeting was sponsored by the Univ. of Arkansas, and Douglas A....

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• QUALCOMM: QUALCOMM chairman and CEO honoured at Computerworld Smithsonian Award gala.

  - 1999-06-14

  M2 PRESSWIRE-14 June 1999-QUALCOMM: QUALCOMM chairman and CEO honoured at Computerworld Smithsonian Award gala C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:110699 * Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs Receives Prestigious Leadership Award for Global Integration SAN DIEGO -- QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM)...

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