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COPYRIGHT 2005 Smithsonian Institution
Right from the start, the Smithsonian gave pride of place to science. The Institution's third secretary, Samuel Pierpont Langley, put our first astronomical observatory, which he described as a "one-story building, or rather shed," on prime real estate, next to the Castle. Today its heir, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), has six facilities on three continents and several out in the cosmos. Directly across from the Castle, another of the Smithsonian's early research centers, the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), is dedicated not only to disciplines such as biology and geology but...
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