Topic: Smithsonian Institution
AP News | 2010-02-24 14:15:33
Dog of war: British Labrador fetches award for bomb-sniffing work on Afghan front lines
A perky British Labrador whose bomb-sniffing exploits helped save lives in Afghanistan was decorated for canine courage in a ceremony at London's Imperial War Museum Wednesday. Eight-year-old Treo joins a menagerie of heroic animals honored over the years with a special award known as the ...
AP Features | 2010-02-05 20:45:29
<div id="subtitle">Tourists make last-minute museum, monument trips around DC before heavy snow</div><div><p>Tourists are making last-minute trips to Washington's monuments and museums before they likely get snowed in.</p><p>Small groups walked up slick steps of the Lincoln Memorial Friday afternoon ...
AP News | 2010-02-03 20:11:33
In this 2010 photo released by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, a section of a meteorite the a size of a tennis ball is shown in Washington. The meteorite that plummeted through the roof of a ...
AP Features | 2010-02-03 12:13:54
<div><p>An out-of-this world rock has become the center of a down-to-earth dispute over who its rightful owner should be.</p><p>The tennis ball-sized meteorite plummeted through the roof of a Virginia medical office just after dusk on Jan. 18, the same time as people reported seeing a fireball in ...
