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Author : Edward Marsh Gordon
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Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Honoring James Smithson written by Edward Marsh Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
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Total Pages : 3 pages
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Download or read book Honoring James Smithson written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Honoring James Smithson. June 17, 1976. -- Referred to the House Calendar and Ordered to be Printed written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
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Total Pages : 3 pages
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Download or read book Honoring James Smithson written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Jones Rhees
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Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book James Smithson and His Bequest written by William Jones Rhees and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 120 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 : 4.59/5 ( 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.
Author : William J. Rhees
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368629727
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( 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 : JAMES SMITHSON
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Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMEMORATING THE BIRTH OF JAMES SMITHSON. written by JAMES SMITHSON and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Smithson
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Total Pages : 6 pages
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Download or read book James Smithson's Will written by James Smithson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Smithson
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Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( 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 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
