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Author : William J. Rhees
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368629727
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (686 download)
Download or read book James Smithson and his Bequest written by William J. Rhees and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Author : J. Smithson
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Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Scientific writings of James Smithson written by J. Smithson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nina Burleigh
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060002425
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Stranger and the Statesman written by Nina Burleigh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After Smithson's death, nineteenth-century American politicans were given the task of securing his half-million dollars - the equivalent today of fifty million - and then trying to determine how to increase and diffuse knowledge from the muddy, brawling new city of Washington. Burleigh discloses how Smithson's bequest was nearly lost due to fierce battles among many clashing Americans - Southern slavers, state's rights advocates, nation-builders, corrupt frontiersmen, and Anglophobes who argued over whether a gift from an Englishman should even be accepted. She also reveals the efforts of the unsung heroes, mainly former president John Quincy Adams, whose tireless efforts finally saw Smithson's curious notion realized in 1846, with a castle housing the United States' first and greatest cultural and scientific establishment."--BOOK JACKET.
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Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Smithsonian Institution
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report of the Board of Regents written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1847-1963/64 include the Institution's Report of the Secretary, also published separately.
Author : Smithsonian Institution
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS FO THE SMINTHSONIAN INSTITUTION , SHOWING THE OPERATIONS, EXPENDITURES AND CONDITION OF THE INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR 1866 written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Senate documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Miscellaneous Documents written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States Senate
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Senate Documents written by United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Independent Offices Appropriations, 1951 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Total Pages : 1172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Independent Offices Appropriations for 1951 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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Total Pages : 2004 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 2004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee
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Total Pages : 1176 pages
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Download or read book Independent Offices Approrpiation Bill, 1951, Hearings Before ... 81-2 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather Ewing
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408820757
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Lost World of James Smithson written by Heather Ewing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836 the United States government received a strange and unprecedented gift - a bequest of 104,960 gold sovereigns (then worth half a million dollars) to establish a foundation in Washington 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men'. The Smithsonian Institution, as it would eventually be called, grew into the largest museum and research complex in the world. Yet it owes its existence to an Englishman who never set foot in the United States, and who has remained a shadowy figure for more than a hundred and fifty years. Smithson lived a restless life in the capitals of Europe during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; at one time he was trailed by the French secret police, and later languished as a prisoner of war in Denmark for four long years. Yet despite a certain a penchant for gambling and fine living, he had, by the time of his death in Paris in 1829, amassed a financial fortune and a wealth of scientific papers that he left to the new democracy America. Spurned by his natural father and his country, he would be acknowledged for his own achievements in the New World. Drawing on unpublished diaries and letters from archives all over Europe and the United States, Heather Ewing tells the full and compelling story for the first time, revealing a life lived at the heart of the English Enlightenment and illuminating the mind that sparked the creation of America's greatest museum.
