Historical Marker Search

You searched for Postal Code: 20560

Page 2 of 4 — Showing results 11 to 20 of 31
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23MY_a-common-language_Washington-DC.html
Plant nomenclature is the naming of plants using the binomial (meaning "two names") system. The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus introduced this method in 1753. Binomial nomenclature uses Latin to communicate scientific information on a global scale…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23MX_an-apple-is-a-rose_Washington-DC.html
In the early 1900s, botanists reclassified the Spirea, Plum, and Apple families as subfamilies within the Rose family. This new categorization was embodied in Robert Frost's poem from 1927: The Rose Family by Robert Frost The rose is a rose…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23MW_the-modern-rose_Washington-DC.html
"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Fossil evidence found in Colorado in the U.S. suggests that plants in the rose family have existed fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23MV_pluto_Washington-DC.html
Top of marker: Pluto These tiny spheres are the dwarf planet Pluto and its moon Charon at one 10-billionth actual size. If Pluto were this big, how far away would the Sun and planets be? Look at the map on the lower panel to find your positio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23MU_voyage_Washington-DC.html
You are standing near Pluto within a model of our solar system. The real solar system is 10 billion times larger. Take a voyage! Imagine exploring our solar system as a giant. As you travel, you encounter the Sun and its planets, each small eno…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23MT_the-parterre_Washington-DC.html
Parterre—from a French term meaning "on or along the ground"—originated in the 16th-century Renaissance Italy as an ornamental garden style. The style, which defines garden pace by arranging hedges, flowers, grass, water, and gravel to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23KN_enid-a-haupt-garden_Washington-DC.html
A popular urban oasis since its completion in 1987, the 4.2-acre Enid A. Haupt Garden comprises three distinct gardens. The design of each reflects the cultural and aesthetic influences celebrated in the Smithsonian Castle and the surrounding muse…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23KM_acquired-in-1886-by-the-department-of-living-animals_Washington-DC.html
Acquired in 1886 by the Department of Living Animals, buffalo were penned behind the Smithsonian Castle before being moved to what is now the National Zoological Park. Their presence sparked public interest in the preservation of a vanishing Ameri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23KL_the-pillars-of-the-renwick-gates_Washington-DC.html
The pillars of the Renwick Gates were based on this 1849 drawing by James Renwick Jr., the architect of the Smithsonian Castle. They were constructed in the 1980s from the same kind of sandstone that was used to build the Castle. Smithsonian …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23KK_constantine-l-seferlis_Washington-DC.html
Constantine L. Seferlis (1928 - 2005) Stone Carver Restored the walls of the Smithsonian Castle and carved these carriage gates according to James Renwick's 1849 design.
PAGE 2 OF 4