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...have nearly doubled during the past three years, to $850,000 for the fiscal year that ended last April 30. At New York City's Met, sales reached $34 million for the year ending June 30, up 85% since 1981. For the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington saw sales from its nine stores and its mail-order catalog hit $34.5 million, up 29% in just one year. Much of that income is generated during the Christmas season. "A lot of folks find that museum stores are nice places to buy Christmas gifts," says Smithsonian...
...foundation made national headlines in 2001, when the Smithsonian Institution rejected a $38 million gift from Reynolds after a dispute over her desire that the money be used to create a hall of achievement featuring Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, among others...
...then Senator [Bob] Packwood heard I had these things, and said they ought to be put in the Smithsonian. So I looked, but I decided that they'd wind up behind some stuffed owl. Then Glenn Campbell of the Hoover Institution [of War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University] wanted 'em, so I gave 'em to him. A few months later, I got an appraisal from Sotheby's for a deduction on my income tax. Well, since then I've been fighting the IRS. This Wednesday we're having a hearing. Seems they sent the films to Ray Hackie...
...refuges, Roosevelt’s first act after his chosen successor William Howard Taft took office was to embark on a safari to shoot lions, giraffes, and other exotic creatures. In total, Roosevelt and his entourage killed 512 animals, the majority of which were stuffed and sent to the Smithsonian Institution...
...Until yesterday, no one had talked about measuring [light from the planet itself] directly,” said Charbonneau, who researches at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, based in Cambridge...