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Did you know that William Morris was an ecologist? He rejected the chemical aniline dyes, which were predominant during his time, and he emphasised on organic dyes, such as indigo for blue.

   

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2022-06-06

Birds were popular pets during the Victorian era. We believe this drawing of Jacquot might have been done by Dorothy Walker when she was a child.

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2021-02-11

Today's letter is R for Robot! Did you know the term robot comes from the Slavic languages robota, meaning forced labor? The word robot was first used to denote a fictional humanoid in the 1920’s play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Czech writer Karel Čapek.

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2020-05-15

“F” is for FOSSIL. There aren't many at , but ours speak to the diverse paleontological resources recovered from public lands & found more extensively at other bureaus. Our examples incl. petrified wood, fossilized clams & an Allosaurus skull cast.

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2020-04-13

“C” is for CERAMIC. Our collection contains ~150 Native American ceramics from the late 1800s to the present, including pieces by masters whose works revived centuries-old traditions and inspired future generations of potters.

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2020-04-10

It's H for the Hale family in today's

Charles Hale was 's first Groundsman and he lived with his family in a cottage next to the ground.

His great-grandson tells us more ➡️ https://t.co/AoGyqecknQ

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2020-03-27