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Topic: History

Photo of a 3D model of a wrought iron anchor from the USS Monitor. The anchor has four prongs and a center column with a ring on top for attaching a line from the ship.

Check out the USS Monitor Virtual Artifact Collection for International Museum Day

May 17, 2024

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Photo of a 3D model of a wrought iron anchor from the USS Monitor. The anchor has four prongs and a center column with a ring on top for attaching a line from the ship.

Friday Find: Listen to these tornado safety announcements from the 1960s

May 3, 2024

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photo of a passage from a handwritten cursive manuscript from an early draft of Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder (1965)

April 10, 2024

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photo of a passage from a handwritten cursive manuscript from an early draft of Rachel Carson's The Sense of Wonder (1965)

Black and white photo of Marie Tharpe at her drafting table in 1961.

March 21, 2024

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Black and white photo of Marie Tharpe at her drafting table in 1961.

Black and white portrait of Dr. George Washington Carver

The Legacy of Dr. George Washington Carver

February 21, 2024

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Black and white portrait of Dr. George Washington Carver

Photo of a NOAA satellite viewing Earth from orbit.

Celebrating Earth Day with NOAA Satellites

April 22, 2024

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Photo of a NOAA satellite viewing Earth from orbit.

1951: Rachel Carson at the dock in Woods Hole, MA.

Rachel Carson and the Great Environmental Awakening

April 16, 2024

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environmental impacts

1951: Rachel Carson at the dock in Woods Hole, MA.

Photos of the front of the Owlie Skywarn card, showing Owlie the owl with his wings around three children with the words, "SKYWARN Tips for TORNADO SAFETY."

Friday Find: Owlie Skywarn cards

April 12, 2024

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Photos of the front of the Owlie Skywarn card, showing Owlie the owl with his wings around three children with the words, "SKYWARN Tips for TORNADO SAFETY."

This colorful photo shows reporters filming Hurricane Specialist Richard Pasch making a hurricane conference call with the National Weather Service New Orleans/Baton Rouge Office during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. On the right, a man sits on one of a bank of phones with his back to us. Reporters with cameras and microphones crowd around the table.

Hurricane hotline phones: A direct line to 20th-century weather forecasting

May 1, 2024

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This colorful photo shows reporters filming Hurricane Specialist Richard Pasch making a hurricane conference call with the National Weather Service New Orleans/Baton Rouge Office during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. On the right, a man sits on one of a bank of phones with his back to us. Reporters with cameras and microphones crowd around the table.

A black and white photo of a tornado with multiple vortices, one in the center, which reaches to the ground and a smaller one on either side which do not reach the ground.

Here's one of the first photos of a tornado ever

April 8, 2024

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A black and white photo of a tornado with multiple vortices, one in the center, which reaches to the ground and a smaller one on either side which do not reach the ground.

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