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	SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
		He also creates novels that he calls his "inventions," commenting on popular culture and public taste through tales of, say, rampant transsexuality (Myra Breckinridge), California death cults (Messiah), the end of the world (Kalki), or an NBC news crew that goes back in time to broadcast the Crucifixion (Live from Golgotha).
		The Smithsonian Institution abounds with historical cameos, from the populist President Grover Cleveland, who won the election after he refused to lie about his illegitimate child (true story), to a bemused Abraham Lincoln, snatched from his seat at Ford's Theater before the bullet had time to penetrate his skull (probably not true).
		And so this novel seems like a light-hearted summing up for Vidal, who is now 72, and who in interviews has begun to sound pretty much like he did 25 years ago.
	www.pitt.edu /~kloman/smithf.html (1401 words)

	The Chip Collection - US Patent 3,555,371 - Smithsonian Institution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The cross-pieces may be metal strips, the upper edges of which are connected with the associated electrodes or may be printed conductors.
		The novel semiconductor devices may be completely manufactured by automatic machinery.
		Figure 1 shows a semiconductor device in accordance with the invention prior to the securing of the semiconductor body to the connecting leads the cross-pieces being constituted by metal strips the direction of length of which at right angles to the direction of length of the electrodes.
	smithsonianchips.si.edu /patents/3555371.htm (122 words)

	Washington - The Smithsonian Institution
		The origin of this famous scientific establishment was the bequest of an Englishman, James Smithson, a natural son of Hugh Smithson, Duke of Northumberland, born in 1765.
		In Washing-ton's Farewell Address, issued in 1796, there occurs the phrase, " An institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," and it was well known that the Father of his Country cherished a project for a national institution of learning in the new Federal City.
		This was something novel in America, and when the facts became public opposition arose in Congress to accepting the gift, eminent men, headed by John C. Calhoun, arguing that it was beneath the dignity of the United States to receive presents.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles24/america-7.shtml (649 words)

	Excessive Candour -- The Smithsonian Institution
		Gore Vidal, whose 26th or so novel this is, does not much resemble the usual mainline writer--like P.D. James or Paul Theroux--whose attempts to write SF or fantasy always collapse humiliatingly, because they treat the fields they are embarking upon as slums in need of redevelopment.
		Like many of Vidal's non-fantastic novels, it is a story about Washington, home of the real Smithsonian Institution, which much resembles the fantasy-like Edifice that dominates this story.
		The Aspirant is T. And, as we've noted, the labyrinth of Story and the labyrinth of World that T. must trace to come into his heritage and to gain his true love and to rule the world are the same: The Smithsonian Institution is the story of itself.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue67/excess.html (811 words)

	CELESTIAL, TERRESTRIAL
		Despite the Smithsonian's lack of funds and the fading of some of its leading lights, it retained talented scientists throughout the early part of the 20th century.
		The sister of Smithsonian Assistant Secretary and National Museum director Richard Rathbun, Mary Jane came to the Smithsonian in 1886 as a "copyist," and, by 1913, occupied an office in the west wing of the Natural History Building as assistant curator in the division of marine invertebrates.
		In 1946, the Institution's centennial year, the Smithsonian held a modest celebration that included a commemorative stamp issued by the Postal Service, a special exhibition in the foyer of the National Museum, and a reception there for some 1,000 guests that featured the Marine Band Orchestra on the second floor, over-looking the rotunda.
	www.150.si.edu /chap8/eight.htm (3682 words)

	national museum intro
		Everything was addressed to the Smithsonian, and in popular parlance the collectors and naturalists were all 'Smithsonian men.' They went westward and northward and southward, and came back with car-loads of Indian relics and modern implements of savagery, skins, shells, insects, minerals, fossils, skeletons, alcoholic preparations, herbaria, and note-books,-the last crammed with novel information.
		It was natural, therefore, that the Smithsonian regents should be made custodians of the national collections, and that the appropriations annually made by Congress for the support of the museum should be administered by them.
		The Norman architecture in brown stone of the older structure is strongly contrasted in the low, tent-like expanse of red blue, and cream-colored bricks, white stone, and glass of its new neighbor.
	www.150.si.edu /siarch/guide/nmintro.htm (1989 words)

	THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION by Gore Vidal
		There is also sex, hence the rather outre cover which is supposed to parody the typical romance novel cover rather than seriously place this in that genre (though I think reversing the two figures would have been even better).
		But first he must meet the inhabitants of the Smithsonian, including all the Presidents and First Ladies as well as various anthropological representatives, all of whom come to life after hours a la the Twilight Zone episode.
		If you want to read this strictly as an alternate history novel, well, yes, you might say there is not enough of what happens to change this or cause that.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Leeper/thesmith.html (847 words)

	The Smithsonian Institution : Berichte, Bewertungen, Informationen, Preise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In this fictional invention, set in 1939, Vidal imagines a Smithsonian where the exhibits come to life each day at closing time, and where the museum staff is working with the exhibit characters and real-life scientists, such as Oppenheimer and Einstein, to develop the atomic bomb.
		(A previous, unsuccessful, attempt at time travel by Smithsonian staff rescued Lincoln from Ford's Theatre the moment he was struck with the bullet, with the result that a slightly addled Lincoln now presides in the bowels of the musuem as curator of ceramics).
		This novel employs the devices and conventions of that genre, and drives along with the power of a brilliant, original mind.
	www.smartybrain.com /shopde/product/0316645044/The_Smithsonian_Institution.html (458 words)

	JAIC 1995, Volume 34, Number 2, Article 5 (pp. 141 to 152)
		Novel approaches for assessing the preservation of historic silks: A case study of the First Ladies' gowns.
		POLLY WILLMAN is the senior textile conservator in the Department of Conservation at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
		She is interested in the degradation of biomolecules in the museum environment and in the fossil record.
	aic.stanford.edu /jaic/articles/jaic34-02-005_appx.html (475 words)

	Mahican - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Fenimore Cooper 's novel The Last of the Mohicans confuses the Mahicans with the Mohegans, a different Algonquian tribe living in eastern Connecticut.
		The novel takes place in the Hudson Valley, Mahican land, but characters' names, such as Uncas, are Mohegan.
		Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press (Smithsonian Institute).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahican (398 words)

	Wit, madness lurk in 'Smithsonian' darkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Now Gore Vidal takes readers into another magical history tour in "The Smithsonian Institution," a "hyper-novel" in the tradition of his "Duluth" (1983) and "Live From Golgotha" (1992), novels that reconfigure historical times, people and places into high fantasy and mordant comedy.
		Readers of Vidal's superb memoir, "Palimpsest" (1995), will recognize T., the hero of "The Smithsonian Institution," re-imagined here as a 13-year-old math genius and quantum physics whiz-kid, summoned by forces mystical and perhaps all too human to the Smithsonian on Good Friday, 1939, to assist in the creation of an atomic bomb.
		The actual Smithsonian Institution is a perfect stage for Vidal's musings about key historic figures and times in American history.
	www.jsonline.com /news/sunday/books/0419bk.wit.stm (504 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 104, V-Z
		The uncorrected proof copy of this novel, part of his ongoing series of historical novels that attempt to recapture, and illuminate, the American democratic experience through the use of fiction to personalize the various eras and institutions.
		Vanity press "novel" of a doctor's year in Vietnam, based closely on the author's own experiences as a surgeon there, but written in the third person and apparently with liberties taken with events and plot in order to make points that direct experience would not necessarily so clearly convey.
		This novel was set in 18th century Italy; later books focused on the morals on contemporary society -- especially upper class New York society -- and displayed a frankness in sexual matters that was controversial in its time.
	www.lopezbooks.com /104/104-08.html (2267 words)

	Notable Books of 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		(Broadway, $25.) In an almost obsessively realistic novel that echoes the Susan Smith case, long-simmering racial tensions erupt in a New Jersey city after a dazed and bleeding white woman claims her 4-year-old son was abducted by a fl carjacker.
		(Knopf, $25.) This spacious novel's hypersensitive and often uncharitable narrator analyzes the failure of her parents' marriage as her mother falls in love with another woman and her father grows becalmed in the everyday.
		(Random House, $23.) In a novel largely unobscured by the excess baggage of plot, Brookner illuminates the private dignity of a 70-year-old widow as she struggles to survive the exquisite alienation of old age.
	www.doe-mbi.ucla.edu /~parag/nytimes/notable-fiction98.html (5217 words)

	Smithsonian Institution Marine Science
		Smithsonian Marine Science includes the Smithsonian Marine Science Network which is uniquely positioned to monitor long-term change at its component sites.
		A series of these activities are aimed at promoting awareness and conservation of marine environments, and communicating the Smithsonian’s research findings to the general public.
		The Smithsonian Marine Science contributes to the public interest by disseminating novel environmental information around the globe.
	www.si.edu /marinescience/msatsi.htm (274 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Smithsonian Institution: A Novel: Books: Gore Vidal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In usual Gore Vidal style the characters move between the present and the past, the Smithsonian Institution appearing to sit outside of time but linked to it at all points.
		The main character is in the Smithsonian time never passing but there is another version of him outside of it carrying on with life.
		The models in the Smithsonian come to life when the doors close to the public, and all the past Presidents visit each other and call up the current President to give advice.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Smithsonian-Institution-Novel-Gore-Vidal/dp/0375501215 (420 words)

	Notable Books for Children - 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The novel, unsparing in its representation of medieval England's pervasive brutality, also is a deeply affirmative and rewarding work for readers of any age.
		Centered around the character of a boy, raised in isolation in a wild landscape of dune and woodland, Lester's suspenseful tale is a heartening meditation on the bonds entwining humans with their animal compatriots.
		This ancient pattern of relationships underlies a riveting novel that pits poachers in Tanzania against wildlife biologists and an indefatigable private investigator.
	smithsonianmag.com /smithsonian/issues98/nov98/bookreview_nov98.html (4211 words)

	Gore Vidal, The Smithsonian Institution
		The result, The Smithsonian Institution (1998), while serious in implication, is brash, daft, self-indulgent, and often very funny, a notable work of satirical SF.
		The Smithsonian Institution begins at Easter 1939, at the point when America’s imperial course was being set in motion.
		T., a teenaged scientific genius, is recruited into the Smithsonian Institution, the American capital’s complex of museums and laboratories.
	www.geocities.com /area51/rampart/2547/skyp.htm (574 words)

	Time Travel Gone Haywire / Vidal's whimsical fable takes on history, physics and the A-bomb
		Gore Vidal's latest novel seems to have all his favorite elements aboard, and the resulting literary kinetics promise to be the unifying climax of his wide-ranging talent.
		His new novel, ``The Smithsonian Institution,'' takes us back to that turning point, the dawn of the war and the resulting creation of the military industrial complex.
		In ``The Smithsonian Institution,'' Vidal is so busy establishing his science fiction con coction that he doesn't leave himself ink in the pen to comment on it.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/03/01/RV106943.DTL&type=printable (880 words)

	Search Results
		Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 1891, Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, 1 (4) : 91-127, 10 plates.
		Smithsonian Institution Press, 1930, Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution, 1929 : pages 187-194 and 8 figures.
		Smithsonian Institution Press, 1930, Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution, 1929 : pages 177-182 and 6 figures.
	www.paleopubs.com /linksPublications.cfm?criteria=Arizona&searchBy=catalogue&searchType=location (2156 words)

	The Chip Collection - US Patent 3,518,750 - Smithsonian Institution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A novel MISFET and method of manufacture involving a five mask process suitable for making N-channel devices alone, P-channel devices alone or both N and P-channel devices simultaneously.
		Novel topside contact means, field inversion protection means and gate breakdown protection means are disclosed.
		Figures 1-9 illustrate steps in the five-mask process used in making a MISFET in accordance with the present invention.
	smithsonianchips.si.edu /patents/3518750.htm (81 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Book Review-a-Day: Powells.com, The Atlantic Monthly, The Christian Science Monitor, ...
		He now is in the process of torturing her murderer, but this, as they say, is only the tip of the iceberg.
		Usually you are immune to the shill of the bestseller list, but now it's hot and you deserve some fun, too.
		So it is all the more delicious to report that The Diana Chronicles is that contradiction in terms: a summer spellbinder for serious people.
	www.powells.com /review (835 words)

	Amazon.de: Rezensionen English Books: Smithsonian Institution (Harvest Book) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		learns that his presence at the institution was requested because of his ability with numbers, which could lead to building improved bombs.
		Specifically, undisclosed forces (among them may be James Smithson, the Institution's presiding genius) have determined that T., also, incidentally, ``the best schoolboy pitcher in the Washington, D.C., area,'' may possess knowledge that will enable his country to detonate a nuclear bomb without producing the ensuing chain reaction certain to destroy the world.
		Fans of Vidal's comic novels can expect the usual mixture of earthiness and erudition, though on a more restrained level; the novel provides the author with the chance to put words in the mouths of a dozen presidents, noted scientists, and pop culture heroes (Lindbergh makes an appearance, as does Walt Disney).
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books-intl-de/0156006480/reviews (1085 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 99, V-Z
		This was the first novel to be published simultaneously in the Penguin Contemporary American Fiction series and as a Viking hardcover, making the hardcover issue scarce; one bookseller who re-ordered copies of the hardcover on publication day was told they were "out of stock" and the edition was never, in fact, reprinted.
		A novel that was published as a paperback original in the Vintage Contemporaries series of literary fiction.
		A novel by him on the pivotal event of his generation the Vietnam war is a notable contribution to contemporary literature, regardless of the author's opinion of its quality.
	www.lopezbooks.com /99/99-07.html (1549 words)

	Review: The Smithsonian Institution
		In Washington, DC, a 13-year-old prodigy known only as "T." is summoned to the Smithsonian Institution by a mysterious telephone call.
		However, his interest in nuclear technology wanes after he catches a glimpse of World War II and subsequently finds a wax version of himself, mortally wounded at Iwo Jima, being readied for a new military exhibit.
		For the balance of the novel, T. makes it his mission to change the past and prevent future catastrophe -- as well as his own demise.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/vidal.html (917 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Smithsonian Institution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It seems the outwardly average (if unusually attractive) young man has scribbled, in the margins of a math test, an equation that may be essential to the upcoming war effort.
		In 1939, a 13-year-old mathematical genius is secretly summoned to the Smithsonian.
		The first surprise is that the exhibit dummies come to life after closing time; the second is when he's informed by the Chief Director (who has an uncanny resemblance to Abe Lincoln) that he's stumbled upon a formula for a powerful bomb, possibly the ultimate solution to the war in Europe.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375501215 (1008 words)

	Gore Vidal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		is a novel of philosophical comedy and allusion
		There, T. discovers that what so many children have imagined is true: at night the museum's presidential wax dummies, their wives, and the other exhibits come to life.
		The Lone Eagle replies, "I sure felt sorry for those Frenchmen who carried me on their shoulders after I landed." While this detail seems apocryphal (Lindy hardly ate on the trip, and he carried a bottle for "number one"), Vidal wants us to remember that history in the making usually stinks of shit.
	www.providencephoenix.com /archive/books/98/02/26/VIDAL.html (767 words)

	Amazon.com: The Smithsonian Institution: Books: Gore Vidal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Having astutely explored several historical periods in his fiction (Lincoln, etc.), Vidal has now produced an eccentric novel about a literal time machine and a boy who uses it to save the world (or one version of the world) from within the headquarters of Washington, D.C.'s public museum complex.
		Because of his doodles on an algebra exam, the powers that beAand readers are never quite sure until the end who the powers areAarrange for him to be deposited at the doors of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
		It involves the mannequins in the Smithsonian's First Ladies exhibit, along with their not-so-dummy husbands; Charles Lindbergh; a seriously cracked Abraham Lincoln (now Curator of Ceramics); and an attempt to change history and head off World War II.
	www.amazon.com /Smithsonian-Institution-Gore-Vidal/dp/0375501215 (1748 words)

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