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If you hear "Danny Boy" this #StPatricksDay, you're listening to the lyrics of Frederic Weatherly. He also wrote "The Book of Gnomes," now in our ' rare book collection.
This page features “A Council of Gnomes,” presumably arguing about what to get for dinner.☘️
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Video description: Animated video showing how Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson, who had been confined to state institutions, sued to choose their own homes. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in their favor and Curtis and Wilson moved into group homes.
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Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson, two women with disabilities, won a case against the state of Georgia for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. #SmithsonianWHM
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Hungry for #PiDay?🥧
Stephen Frykholm designed this 1975 poster to promote the Herman Miller Furniture Company’s summer picnics. It's one of many picnic posters of his now in our 's collection. s.si.edu/3YMvZFl
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Video description: Animated video showing how the Daughters of Bilitis evolved to educate and combat prejudice. They surveyed mental health professionals in order to remove "homosexuality" as an illness from a psychiatric manual.
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The Daughters of Bilitis was a lesbian social club that transformed into a rights organization. They produced the first national lesbian publication, participated in public protests, and challenged the field of psychology’s misconceptions of homosexuality. #SmithsonianWHM
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From Big Mama Thorton’s recording of “Hound Dog” to speeches by Angela Davis, recordings of women capture a wide range of expression. For #InternationalWomensDay, we’ve worked with @SmithsonianFolkways to bring you this playlist of must-hear recordings. folkways.si.edu/playlist/side-
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An activist wore this button created by the American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD) at the protests, and it's now in our .
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We remember disability rights activist Judy Heumann.
She helped lead protesters in a 1977 sit-in at a federal building in San Francisco. Their demand: that the government implement Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, protecting the rights of people with disabilities.
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The #SaucerMagnolias in the Enid A. Haupt Garden are still at mid-peak. This garden is a 4-acre greenroof over the and Museums. Many blossoms are fully open from heat pockets but the consistently cool temperatures have kept other buds closed.
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Tune in tonight to see some of the world’s most talented artists compete at our , in the premiere of #TheExhibit from and .
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Watch with us: “The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist” premieres Friday, March 3 at 9PM ET/PT on @MTV; and 10PM ET/PT every week after. Episodes re-air on @SmithsonianChan, starting Tuesday, March 7 at 9PM ET/PT.
Learn more: hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/the-ex
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Before becoming an environmental activist, Grace Thorpe (Sac and Fox, 1921–2008) served in the Women's Army Corps in WWII. Upon her return to Oklahoma she also served as a tribal district court judge & health commissioner.
More: s.si.edu/3y6nVEv #IndigenousWomensHistory
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Grace Thorpe organized her community when she learned that several Native American tribes, including her Sac and Fox Nation, were considering allowing the government to store toxic nuclear waste materials on their lands. #SmithsonianWHM #WomensHistoryMonth
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Video description: Animated video showing Grace Thorpe working to protect Native American land from nuclear waste.
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Grace Thorpe organized her community when she learned that several Native American tribes, including her Sac and Fox Nation, were considering allowing the government to store toxic nuclear waste materials on their lands. #SmithsonianWHM #WomensHistoryMonth
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"Winyan Wánakikśin" (Women Defenders of Others), an award-winning belt created by Kevin & Valerie Pourier (both Oglala Lakota) depicts 8 Indigenous women defending and preserving Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and cultures through arts, education & advocacy. /1 #SmithsonianWHM
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Patsy Mink was the first woman of color elected to Congress. Originally elected in 1965, Mink went on to serve 13 terms during which she championed women’s equality, for instance as a coauthor of Title IX. #SmithsonianWomensHistory #SmithsonianWHM #WHM
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In 1921 Pura Belpré became the first Puerto Rican librarian in the . Through initiatives like instituting bilingual story hours and implementing Spanish-language books, Belpré pioneered the library's work with the Spanish-speaking communities. #SmithsonianWHM
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Hello, Twitter. We're the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum. We believe women's history is American history. Follow along to explore stories that matter and share your own. #SmithsonianWomensHistory
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Learn more about why their book program was so powerful. #WomensHistoryMonth
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The women of Delta Sigma Theta, an African American sorority, brought books to students in the segregated South in the 1930s. Their bookmobile reached schools with few teachers and resources.
This photo is from our 's Scurlock collection. #SmithsonianWHM
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Celebrating Women's History Month with highlights from our collection all month, starting with Violet Oakley (1874-1961). A painter, muralist, and stained glass designer. View her papers at: s.si.edu/violetoakley #SmithsonianWHM #ArchivesofAmericanArt #WomenArtists
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Explore the ecosystems of migratory songbirds, waterfowl and shorebirds, and learn how to protect native species in your own backyard.
Free timed-entry passes (available at the Zoo) will be required for the first several months: s.si.edu/41lXBn0 #LiveBirdFriendly
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Tweet tweet! Our 's renovated Bird House opens March 13.
These are a few of the birds you can see in immersive aviaries and the surrounding outdoor exhibits.
1️⃣Black-and-white warbler
2️⃣Barred owls
3️⃣Shorebirds, including sanderling and dunlin
4️⃣A male bufflehead
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Live now! Join us to hear about the power of the Black Press. #BHM
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Join us Thursday for a Twitter Spaces conversation with and Curator, Aaron Bryant, as they talk about The Power of the Black Press. 2pm ET . Bring your questions!
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Set your reminders for Thursday at 2pm ET for a Twitter Spaces conversation with and Curator, Aaron Bryant as they talk about The Power of the Black Press.
Have your questions prepared for an open dialogue.
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This life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln towers at 9 feet tall in ’s “America’s Presidents” exhibition.
Completed in 1865, it's by W.F.K. Travers and on long-term loan from the Hartley Dodge Foundation. s.si.edu/417KFRQ #PresidentsDay
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This is Dr. Patricia Cowings, whose research helps astronauts overcome space sickness.
She was the first American woman to receive scientist astronaut training in 1978, and went on to study the psycho-physiological and biological problems astronauts experience in space. #BHM
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Celebrate #ValentinesDay and enjoy the sweet taste of conservation. Smithsonian Bird Friendly® certification now includes cocoa! Treat yourself and the planet by choosing #BirdFriendly chocolate made with 100% Bird Friendly cocoa. Flock this way: nationalzoo.si.edu/migratory-bird
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Artist Frida Kahlo signed this love letter with a kiss. 💋 She wrote it in 1939 to photographer Nickolas Muray, whose papers are in our : s.si.edu/2S81Nao #ValentinesDay
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What does “home” mean to you?
This year, the Mother Tongue Film Festival shows that home can be found in a place, a person, a song, a prayer, an emotion, a language.
Read more and watch trailers of some highlights: s.si.edu/3IgpVyP
#MotherTongue2023
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Shine bright like a diamond. 🎵 Fashioned from the largest uncut American diamond ever discovered, the flawless 12.4-carat Uncle Sam Diamond is now in our . It was cut from a crystal weighing a massive 40.23 carats discovered at Crater of Diamonds in Arkansas in 1924. 💎
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Today in 1960, four African American students sat at a Woolworth lunch counter, asked for service and started a movement.
A section of the counter from the Greensboro, North Carolina sit-ins is in , with stools in . s.si.edu/2GsUrVb #SmithsonianBHM
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What's in the air we breathe? Led by scientists at the , the will be the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants hourly at high spatial resolution across greater North America.
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What are you looking forward to this new year?
We're looking forward to the launch of our TEMPO instrument! After more than a decade of work, TEMPO will finally orbit the Earth and return valuable information about what's in the air we breathe.
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Elie Wiesel devoted his life to ensuring the Holocaust and its victims are never forgotten. A survivor of the concentration camps where his family was murdered, he wrote the memoir "Night." 's Miriam Baker sculpture: s.si.edu/2Ykg7gp #HolocaustRemembranceDay
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Bessie Coleman was born on #TDIH in 1892. She became the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license in 1921 and remains an inspiration to generations of pilots. Explore how Coleman broke down barriers to achieve her dream of flight: s.si.edu/3XHk1Ny
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