Smithsonian articles from September 1998

Smithsonian archives from September 1998

Why Save the Flag?(Brief Article)(Column)
September 1, 1998... Preserving the star-spangled banner reflects our ongoing effort to establish a more perfect union In the July issue, I spoke of the Smithsonian's commitment to preserving the Star-Spangled Banner. On July 13, the President and First Lady...

Letters to the editor.
September 1, 1998... Smithsonian PERSPECTIVES In his July column, Secretary I. Michael Heyman remarked that the U.S. national anthem is Francis Scott Key's verse set to a "familiar English melody." The words to the first stanza of that song are: "To Anacreon...

Steaming into the Future.(antique tractors)
September 1, 1998... An ungainly monster, the steam traction engine helped turn the buffalo's pasture into America's breadbasket Built to last and as big as a dinosaur, it was obsolete before it left the factory in 1920. Nonetheless, with huge wheels and a gay...

A Mailbox with a Catch.
September 1, 1998... Recently a mailbox in Maine was carefully packed up by a fine-arts shipping firm and trucked to Washington, D.C. "We certainly consider it a work of art," says Phyllis Reed. "Kenneth has done a lot of woodwork but has never gotten...

Imperial Everest.
September 1, 1998... Jan Morris, who accompanied the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition for the Times of London and broke the story of the first ascent, has written more than 20 books about the cultural and social history of places around the world. She will...

Magazine Website smithsonianmag.si.edu.
September 1, 1998... Another place to start finding out about the many exhibitions, events, publications and activities of the Smithsonian is smithsonianmag.si. edu. There you'll find a version of the Highlights Calendar with links to the many pages of the...

Exhibitions, Events.
September 1, 1998... ARTHUR M. SACKLER GALLERY The Buddha's Art of Healing: Tibet- an Medical Paintings from Buryatia (through January 3, 1999) Seventeen paintings from the only surviving copy of an extraordinary treatise on Tibetan medical knowledge. ...

The long, cold journey of Ice Station Sheba.(Arctic research)
September 1, 1998... Climate scientists go with the floe by holly menino photographs The icebreaker is headed just a couple of degrees off due north. Except for the faint geometry of cracks and pressure ridges, the snow-covered icescape around it is a dazzling...

After years of abuse and neglect, Thailand's elephants are in Trouble.(Asian elephants become endangered species)
September 1, 1998... Len Homhuan is an old man, but when he was young he ventured into the seemingly boundless jungles of Thailand and Cambodia with his comrades to capture wild elephants with ropes. Back then, hundreds of thousands of the huge creatures were on...

Timeless tweed.(Hebrides history of tweed weaving)
September 1, 1998... On the Hebrides Isle of Harris, weavers are still producing their sought after textile It's 8 o'clock of a spanking spring morning and already the low fluffy clouds are scudding across a busy blue Hebridean sky. Beneath them scurry...

Delacroix.(artworks of Eugene Delacroix )
September 1, 1998... From Saints to Sunsets: The Late Great Works of Eugene Delacroix You could say that Eugene Delacroix was your average work-obsessed man of art. His needs were basic; he merely hungered for attention, praise, sales, fame and honors, and...

The Strange Case of the Surgeon at Crowthorne.(dictionary writers meet)
September 1, 1998... "I am Dr. James Murray of the London Philological Society and Editor of the New English Dictionary. It is indeed an honor and a pleasure to at long last make your acquaintance -- for you must be, kind sir, my most assiduous helpmeet, Dr. W. C....

A Long Shot Pays Off.
September 1, 1998... 500 years late, but 56 hands high In the days when milan was one of the richest and most powerful city-states in northern Italy, its duke, Ludovico Sforza, liked to do things in a grand way. In 1482 he commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to...

A Passion Past for the.(art collectors Bertram and Nina Little )
September 1, 1998... Bertram and Nina Little spent six decades amassing folk art that captures a corner of american history one of the small pleasures of Cogswell's Grant, a quietly spectacular museum of folk art that opened last month in Essex, Massachusetts, is a...

A Sage For All Seasons.(environmentalists Aldo Leopold)
September 1, 1998... Aldo Leopold articulated a new way to look at the land and its creatures On april 14, 1948, Aldo Leopold learned that a collection of his essays about nature and conservation had been accepted for publication by Oxford University Press....

We Will Not Be Strangers.
September 1, 1998... Dorothy G. Horwitz, editor University of Illinois Press, $26.95 Mel and Dorothy Horwitz, a couple of bright, articulate and upwardly mobile Jewish kids from Brooklyn, had been married a year when Mel quit his surgical residency in 1952 to...

Molecules of Emotion.
September 1, 1998... Candace B. Pert Scribner, $25 Candace Pert is a brilliant molecular biologist who was a key figure in the discovery of the endorphin molecule, the body's natural form of morphine. She is now widely regarded as the mother of a new...

additional sources.
September 1, 1998... The Object at Hand [p. 30] Wheels of Farm Progress by Marvin McKinley, American Society of Agricultural Engineers (St. Joseph, Michigan), 1980 The Agricultural Tractor: 1855-1950, compiled by R. B. Gray, American Society of...

My Answering Machine Sure Had Its Hang-ups.
September 1, 1998... A long-standing member of my household passed away recently following an extended period of malaise. His name was Hal, and I shall miss him, though it must be said there were many occasions when he and I very nearly came to blows. Of course,...