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Oxford Natural History Museum

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The Oxford University Museum of Natural History, sometimes known simply as the Oxford University Museum, is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford’s natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. It also contains a lecture theatre which is used by the University’s Chemistry, Zoology and Mathematics departments. The University Museum provides the only access into the adjoining Pitt Rivers Museum.
The neo-Gothic building was designed by the Irish architects Thomas Newenham Deane and Benjamin Woodward, consisting of a large square court with a glass roof, supported by cast iron pillars, which divide the court into three aisles. Cloistered arcades run around the ground and first floor of the building, with stone columns each made from a different British stone, selected by geologist John Phillips (the Keeper of the Museum). The ornamentation of the stonework and iron pillars incorporates natural forms such as leaves and branches, combining the Pre-Raphaelite style with the scientific role of the building. Statues of eminent men of science stand around the ground floor of the court — from Aristotle and Bacon through to Darwin and Linnaeus. Although the University paid for the construction of the building, the ornamentation was funded by public subscription — and much of it remains incomplete. The Irish stone carvers O’Shea and Whelan had been employed to create lively freehand carvings in the Gothic manner. When funding dried up they offered to work unpaid, but were accused by members of the University Congregation of "defacing" the building by adding unauthorised work. According to Acland, they responded by caricaturing the Congregation as parrots and owls in the carving over the building’s entrance. Acland insists that he forced them to remove the heads.

Washington DC – National Museum of American History: The Bunkers’ Chairs

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The familiar chairs belonging to Archie and Edith Bunker, of the sitcom All in the Family, were originally purchased by the show’s set designer for at a local Goodwill thrift store. Produced by Norman Lear and based on the British series Til Death us Do Part, All in the Family aired on CBS from 1971-1979, when it was retooled as Archie Bunker’s Place where it lasted another 4 years. When Lear thought the show was ending after the eighth season, he donated the chairs chair to the Smithsonian through the efforts of Indiana Democratic Representative John Brademas. When Lear discovered the show was renewed for a ninth season, he had to spend thousands of dollars to create replicas for the set.

The Bunkers were said to live at 704 Hauser Street, a fictitious address that was supposed to be located in Astoria, but in actuality doesn’t exist. The exterior house used for the credits, however, is located in Glendale, at 89-70 Cooper Avenue.

The National Museum of American History, administered by the Smithsonian Institute, collects, preserves and displays American heritage in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. The museum, which first opened in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology, is located on the National Mall in one of the last structures designed by McKim, Mead & White. It was renamed in 1980, and closed for a 2-year renovation by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP from 2006 to 2008.

The Smithsonian Institution, an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its shops and its magazines, was established in 1846. Although concentrated in Washington DC, its collection of over 136 million items is spread through 19 museums, a zoo, and nine research centers from New York to Panama.

Image from page 574 of “Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. ‘Beagle,’ under the command of Captain Fitz Roy” (1913)

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Title: Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. ‘Beagle,’ under the command of Captain Fitz Roy
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Subjects: Beagle Expedition (1831-1836) Natural history Geology Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ly heard of;—nor would I have mentionedthe above revolting details, had I not met with several people,so blinded by the constitutional gaiety of the negro, as tospeak of slavery as a tolerable evil. Such people have generallyvisited at the houses of the upper classes, where the domesticslaves are usually well treated ; and they have not, like myself,lived amongst the lower classes. Such inquirers will ask SLAVERY 53i slaves about their condition ; they forget that the slave mustindeed be dull who does not calculate on the chance of hisanswer reaching his masters ears. It is argued that self-interest will prevent excessive cruelty ;as if self-interest protected our domestic animals, which are farless likely than degraded slaves to stir up the rage of theirsavage masters. It is an argument long since protestedagainst with noble feeling, and strikingly exemplified, by theever-illustrious Humboldt. It is often attempted to palliateslavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer

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HOMEWARD BOUND. countrymen ; if the misery of our poor be caused not by thelaws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin ; buthow this bears on slavery, I cannot see ; as well might theuse of the thumb-screw be defended in one land, by showingthat men in another land suffered from some dreadful disease.Those who look tenderly at the slave-owner, and with a coldheart at the slave, never seem to put themselves into theposition of the latter ;—what a cheerless prospect, with noteven a hope of change ! picture to yourself the chance, everhanging over you, of your wife and your little children—thoseobjects which nature urges even the slave to call his own—being torn from you and sold like beasts to the first bidder ! 532 RETROSPECT chap. And these deeds are done and palliated by men who professto love their neighbours as themselves, who believe in God, andpray that His Will be done on earth ! It makes ones bloodboil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and ourA

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