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Funding of portrait criticized
- 2008-01-05
WASHINGTON AP -- The recently retired director of the National Museum of the American Indian spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself and selected a non-Indian artist to create it, a newspaper reported Friday. The portrait of W. Richard West Jr. by New York...
Ex-museum director linked to lavish trips
- 2007-12-29
WASHINGTON AP -- The former director of the National Museum of the American Indian spent more than $250,000 in Smithsonian funds on first-class transportation and luxury hotels over the past four years, according to records obtained by The Washington Post. During that time, W. Richard West Jr. was...
A CARRIKER TRILOGY: CHAPTERS IN A SAGA OF NEOTROPICAL ORNITHOLOGY
- 2007-01-01
A CARRIKER TRILOGY: CHAPTERS IN A SAGA OF NEOTROPICAL ORNITHOLOGY Vista Nieve. The Remarkable, True Adventures of an Early Twentieth-century Naturalist and His Family in Colombia, South America.-M. R. Carriker. 2001. Blue Mantle Press, Rio Hondo, Texas, xiii + 313 pp., 56 figures, 3 maps. ISBN 0-9665485-2-3. Paperback, $18.95. Experiences...
Trucking Milestones in 2006
- 2006-12-18
Some of the trucking milestones in 2006 include the following events:* The Smithsonian Institution marked the start of containerization with a ceremony honoring Malcom McLean, who is credited with the idea. He placed 50 truck trailers onboard a converted tanker to create the first containership, which left Newark, NJ., for...
Enola Gay and the Court of History
- 2005-01-01
ENOLA GAY AND THE COURT OF HISTORY, Robert P. Newman, Peter Lang Publishing, New York, 2004, 201 pages, $24.95. Show me where someone stood on the nuclear-freeze movement in 1985, and 9 times out of 10, I will show you where they stand on the bombing of Hiroshima in...
Kansas City, Mo., railroad station may acquire historic diesel locomotive.
- 2004-11-18
By Kevin Murphy, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 18--Union Station's board of directors agreed Wednesday to explore the possible acquisition of a diesel locomotive from the Smithsonian Institution. The engine, now in storage in...
Hardwick, M. Jeffrey: Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream.(Book Review)
- 2004-09-22
Hardwick, M. Jeffrey Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 272 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-8122-3762-5 Publication Date: October 2003 In Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream, M. Jeffrey Hardwick details Viennese-born Victor Gruen's contributions...
WIM's DC chapter opens The House That Mines Built
- 2004-04-01
Women in Mining's WIM Washington, DC Chapter has opened its newest interactive exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. The House That Mines Built is a hands-on display aimed at educating museum goers about the many minerals needed to build homes and make common...
ExxonMobil a Sponsor of New Transportation Exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
- 2003-11-18
Business Editors WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 18, 2003 Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today that it will provide $2 million worth of funding in grant and marketing related contributions to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to support a major new exhibition of the history of transportation in America...
Road trip.(news bytes)
- 2003-11-01
Want to walk on a section of the original Route 66 or board a 1950's Chicago Transit Authority car? "America on the Move" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., assembles some 300 transportation artifacts, including a 1949 Buick ...
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