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1. He bought his first stock when he was 11 years old.While most 11-year-old boys were playing T-ball and reading comic books, Buffett bought stocks. In the spring of 1942, at 11 years old, Buffett purchased shares of Cities Service Preferred for $38 a piece.2. He made $53,000 by the age of 16.Even since he was young, Buffett’s been not only tactful, but also an extremely hard worker.When his family moved to Omaha, Neb., Buffett delivered The Washington Post every morning and brought in about $175 a month (that’s more than most teachers made during that time).He also pursued a few side gigs such as selling used golf balls and collector stamps and buffing cars. By the time he turned 16, he had amassed the equivalent of $53000,3. He was rejected by Harvard Business School.After graduating from the University of Nebraska in three years, Buffett applied to Harvard Business School. But during a brief interview with the school that would determine his acceptance, the staff said to Buffett: “Forget it. You’re not going to Harvard.”After much disappointment from the rejection, Buffett discovered that his idols Benjamin Graham (“the father of value investing”) and David Dodd were professors at Columbia Business School.“I wrote them a letter in mid-August," Buffett shares. "I said, 'Dear Professor Dodd. I thought you guys were dead, but now that I found out that you're alive and teaching at Columbia, I would really like to come.' And he admitted me."4. He eats like a 6-year-old.Buffett’s secret to staying young? Coca-Cola and ice cream.In an interview with Fortune, Buffett claimed he is “one quarter Coca-Cola” -- "If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola. I drink at least five 12-ounce servings. I do it every day."Sometimes for breakfast, he eats a can of Utz potato sticks (yes -- a can, not a bag) to accompany his soda. Other times he takes a sweeter approach and indulges in a bowl of ice cream to jump start his day.When asked how he’s managed to stay healthy with such a salty and sugary diet, he said, "I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among 6-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a 6-year-old."5. He’s lived in the same house since 1958.When you think of a billionaire, you typically think of mansions, vacation homes and expensive cars. That’s never been the case for Buffett. (Perhaps that’s why we’re all so fascinated by him.)Buffett has lived in the same Omaha house since 1958 that he originally bought for $31,500. The house is a simple five-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom house.6. His father-in-law told him he would fail.After proposing to his wife in 1951, Buffett’s father-in-law asked him to come over for a “talk.” Turns out, his father-in-law didn’t have much faith in Buffett and his plans for the future. In fact, he was adamant that Buffett would fail.Buffett recalled the words from his father-in-law during an interview with CNBC: "I just want to absolve you from any worries. You're going to fail. And the reason you're going to fail -- my daughter may starve to death and you're going to fail, but I'm not going to blame you because it's because the Democrats are in and they're all Communists."7. People will pay millions to have lunch with him.Who wouldn’t want to have lunch with the Oracle of Omaha? Without a doubt, there’s a lot he could teach you. Some people are so eager to sit down with Buffett that they’ve bid up to $3.4 million to have lunch with him.Since 2000, Buffett has held an annual fundraiser, auctioning off a charity lunch with him on eBay. In 2012 and 2016, people were so eager to sit down with Buffett they placed bids for more than $3.4 million. The money raised went to the San Francisco-based anti-poverty charity GLIDE, and the winner (who typically remains anonymous) gets to invite seven friends to lunch with Buffett at Smith and Wollensky steakhouse in New York City.The auction has raised more than $20 million in total.8. In 2013, Buffett earned $37 million a day.By the end of 2013, Buffett had a net worth of $59 billion -- up from $46 billion at the beginning of the year. On average, Buffett made $37 million a day in 2013, which was fueled by rising stock prices.9. Nearly 94 percent of his wealth was earned after he turned 60.Success comes at any age. Although Buffett was extremely successful before the age of 60 -- his net worth was a noted $376 million when he was 52 years old -- nearly 94 percent of his wealth came after he turned 60. At 60, he was worth more than $3.8 billion.10. He’s never tweeted before.Although Buffett has a Twitter account (@WarrenBuffett) with more than 1.25 million followers -- it only has nine published tweets, and it turns out none of them were written by him.“I have this friend that talked me into getting a Twitter feed. She's put up a couple things. But, the answer is I've never tweeted anything really myself,” he told CNBC.11. Buffett owns 20 suits, but has never paid for any.Buffett owns close to 20 suits, all made by the same designer -- Madam Lee. There's an interesting story here.During a trip to China, upon arriving to his hotel, “Two guys jumped in the room. … They started sticking tape measures around me and everything, then they showed me a book with a whole bunch of samples and said ‘pick out a suit. Madam Lee wants to give you one,’” Buffett shared with CNBC.Without meeting her, Buffett picked out a suit and later picked out another. Finally meeting the mysterious designer, Buffett developed a professional relationship with Madam Lee and she continued sending Buffett suits. Lee has attended Buffett’s annual meetings and she’s even begun making suits for other successful executives such as Bill Gates.12. He spends 80 percent of his day reading.From the moment he wakes up, Buffett has his nose in a newspaper. In fact, he estimates that he spends around 80 percent of his day reading.When asked the key to his success, Buffett pointed to a stack of books and said, “Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest.”13. Buffett will give an employee $1 million every year for the rest of his or her life if they can guess the NCAA’s sweet 16 teams.Since 2014, Buffett has held a contest among all of his employees, challenging them to guess who the sweet 16 teams will be during NCAA March Madness, he tells CNBC. If someone guesses all of the teams correctly, he promises to pay them $1 million every year for the rest of his or her life.No one has ever won the $1 million prize -- the person who gets the closest will win $100,000. In 2016, two employees tied and each took home $50,000.14. He uses a Nokia flip phone.In a 2013 CNN interview with Piers Morgan, Buffett shared his take on everything from politics to parenting to technology. Buffett even revealed that he was still using a Nokia flip phone. “This is the one Alexander Graham Bell gave me,” Buffett joked. "I don't throw anything away until I've had it 20 or 25 years."Not even Apple CEO Tim Cook can get Buffett to change his ways. During a conversation with CNBC, Buffett revealed what he told Cook when he asked him about his old-school tech: "Well, the answer is just I'm out of touch. But I tell Tim, as long as I haven't gotten one, the market is not saturated. The day I buy one, there is probably nobody left after that.”15. He takes a dozen kids to Dairy Queen every Sunday.Buffett, whose holdings include Dairy Queen, treats a group of 12 kids -- usually his grandchildren and their friends -- to DQ every Sunday, he shared with Joe Kernan on CNBC’s Squawk Box.Watching them, he can’t help but notice how glued they are to their iPhones. “They barely can talk to me except if I'm ordering ice cream or something like that,” he said. Buffett will ask them questions such as what they are doing on them and how, and if they could live without these tech tools. “The stickiness really is something. I mean, they do build their lives around it. … They love it.”16. Buffett rarely emails.Buffett rarely emails -- in fact, he claims that he’s only sent one email in his life and it ended up in federal court.In 1997, Buffett responded to an email from a close friend, former Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes, that read, "Doesn't Microsoft meet all your tests for a wonderful business.” In his response, Buffett laid out all the reasons why he doesn’t use Microsoft. The U.S. government pulled in the email as support for Microsoft’s position in the economy, and Buffett later saw his email in a Wall Street Journal article, he shared in an interview with CNBC.17. He plays the ukulele.When he was 18 years old, Buffett developed a crush on a local Omaha girl, Betty Gallagher, Hear Nebraska Radio reports. To his dismay, Gallagher had a boyfriend at the time. So Buffett brainstormed what he could do that Gallagher’s boyfriend could not, and that was to play the ukulele.After Buffet learned to play the instrument, he serenaded Gallagher, but she still chose the other guy. He still uses his ukulele skills, and you can catch Buffett performing at meetings and during interviews and conventions, sometimes with pal Bill Gates singing along.18. Buffett pledged to donate 85 percent of his Berkshire Hathaway stocks to charitable foundations.On top of being a successful investor and business executive, Buffett is also a huge philanthropist. In 2006, he announced that he planned to gradually give 85 percent of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to five foundations -- and he’s been fulfilling his promise since.In July 2016, Buffett donated more than $2.86 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the five foundations -- one of which is The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He donated around $2.8 billion in both 2014 and 2015.19. He was awarded the “Presidential Medal of Freedom” by Barack Obama.On Feb. 16, 2011, Buffett was awarded the highest civilian honor, the “Presidential Medal of Freedom,” by former President Barack Obama. Due to his philanthropic donations -- since 2014, Buffett has donated more than $2 billion to charitable foundations -- Buffett was chosen to receive such a prestigious award.Obama described Buffett as "not only as one of the world's richest men but also one of the most admired and respected" who had "demonstrated that integrity isn't just a good trait, it is good for business."20. Out of all investing legends, Buffett has the best track record for beating the market.From Charles Munger to Peter Lynch, out of all the world’s biggest investors, the 86-year-old investing tycoon has the best track record of beating the market.21. His face is on Cherry Coke cans in China for a limited time.When Coca-Cola introduced its Cherry flavor to the Chinese market in March 2017, it put Warren Buffett’s face on the cans for a limited time. Buffett -- who’s extremely popular in China -- is an avid Coke drinker, and his company Berkshire Hathaway is the largest Coca-Cola investor, with a 9.3 percent stake.22. He doesn’t follow anyone on Twitter.It’s clear by his lack of tweets how little the billionaire investor uses Twitter. And by checking out who he follows on the social platform, that only becomes more apparent. It turns out, Buffett doesn’t follow a single person on Twitter -- even less than Beyonce, who’s known for her mysterious Twitter activity.23. He’s a fan of Breaking Bad.As a fan of the hit TV show Breaking Bad, Buffett dressed up as the show’s Water White -- a.k.a. HeisenbergNot even the Oracle knows what will happen tonight. #waltsuccessor pic.twitter.com/EM8gIzZib5— Warren Buffett (@WarrenBuffett) September 30, 201324. He likes to joke around.Still a child at heart, Buffett likes to joke around. In fact, announcing to the world he’d joined Twitter, Buffett’s first-ever tweet was: “Warren in the house.”25. He looks to a poem when markets decline.In his 2017 letter to shareholders, Buffett divulged that he thinks of lines from the 1895 poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling when big declines in the market happen."No one can tell you when these will happen," Buffett wrote. "The light can at any time go from green to red without pausing at yellow. When major declines occur, however, they offer extraordinary opportunities to those who are not handicapped by debt. That's the time to heed these lines from Kipling's 'If:'"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...If you can wait and not be tired by waiting ...If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim ...If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you ...Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it."

Portrait of James Smithson (ca. 1765–1829) by Henri-Joseph Johns, 1816. (A Gift for the Ages)"Every man is a valuable member of society who by his oberservations, researches, and experiments procures knowledge for men." -James Smithson[1]For much of history and across most of the world, being born out of wedlock—a love child, a bastard—was a serious impediment to success. Illegitimate offspring were subject to neglect, abandonment, disinheritance, and social exclusion, and often found the usual routes to education, wealth, and status blocked. Surmounting these obstacles required tremendous fortitude and persistence.Illegitimacy could also have a devastating effect on identity, self-esteem and family connection. Well into the 18th century, the English church courts and the Kirk of Scotland prosecuted single parents for fornication and adultery, creating a hostile environment which equated illegitimate birth with sin and shame.[2] Fear of censure encouraged parents to falsify their children’s identities and thousands were brought up uncertain of their origins and cut off from family support networks.Property, status and identity transferred through the male line, making it economically and socially crucial to establish paternal identity and control female chastity through marriage. Paternal uncertainty could undermine the very building blocks of society. In an 1820 House of Lords debate over changes to the marriage laws and, therefore, to the status of children, the Lord Chancellor feared a ruling would ‘affect the whole mass of property in this kingdom’.[3] In an England beset by fears of revolution, property rights were linked to wider concerns about voting rights, class and gender hierarchies and moral order. When the French revolutionary government temporarily abolished illegitimacy in 1793, the London newspaper Lloyd’s Evening Post reported that“ It was ‘highly dangerous to loosen the sacred ties of wedlock, and to authorise the offspring of criminal connexions to share in the privileges of legitimate children’.[4]James Smithson (c. 1765-1829), founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, was born in 1765 in France with the name James Lewis Macie.[5] If his birth had been registered there, the record of it would have been destroyed in the burning of the Paris city hall in the Commune of 1871.[6] The illegitimate son of Elizabeth Hungerford Keate Macie and Hugh Smithson, 1st Duke of Northumberland, he changed his name as well as his citizenship, becoming a naturalized British citizen around the age of ten. Smithson and his half brother Henry Louis Dickinson inherited a considerable estate from their mother's family, a widow of royal blood.[7]James Smithson as an Oxford Student by James Roberts, 1786 (James Smithson, Founding Donor)After his parents' death, he became known as James Smithson rather than James Macie. On May 7, 1782, he enrolled in Pembroke College, Oxford, and graduated four years later.[8] On the college register, he was listed as a gentleman commoner, but the space for his father’s name was left blank, reflecting his difficult social position.[9] Smithson was a wealthy gentleman and so he could have approached his university years as many of his wealthy friends did—appearing early in the semester for a few days and reappearing at the end of term, throwing lavish parties, and obtaining degrees based on social status rather than their academic achievements.[10]Unlike his contemporaries, Smithson chose another path. The natural sciences sparked his interest, and he established a solid reputation as a chemist and mineralogist, during the exciting period when chemistry was being developed as a new science in the late 1700s. Committed to discovering the basic elements, he worked diligently to collect mineral and ore samples from European countries.[11]In one of the few descriptions of Smithson, French geologist Barthelemy Faujas de Saint Fond described him as a diligent young student, dedicated to scientific research, who even risked drowning to gather geological observations on a tour of the Hebrides Islands.[12] William I. Thornton and Italian Count Paolo Andreani accompanied Smithson and Faujas de Saint Fond on the tour. Excerpts from his notes show that his field excursions often forced him to brave the elements and do without the upper class comforts known to his parents.Ancient Monuments upon the Shore between Kirkaldy and KinghornSmithson kept accurate records of his experiments and collections, and his publications earned the respect of his peers. Under the name of James Lewis Macie, the Royal Society of London recognized his scientific abilities and accepted his.and his closest companion's Henry Cavendish membership on April 26, 1787, only a year after he graduated from college, an unusual accolade for someone so young.[13] His recommendation stated that he was a gentleman well versed in various branches of Natural Philosophy, and particularly in Chemistry and Mineralogy.[14] Over time, the society became an outlet for publishing many of his papers, which covered a wide range of scientific topics, and also was a meeting place for Smithson and other scientists.Smithson published at least 27 essays on chemistry, geology, and mineralogy in scientific journals. Macie presented his first paper, “An Account of Some Chemical Experiments on Tabasheer,” to the society July 7, 1791, recounting his chemical analyses of this intriguing substance occasionally found in the hollow of bamboo canes.[15] His topics included the chemical content of a lady's teardrop, the crystalline form of ice, and an improved method of making coffee.[16]In 1792, Macie traveled to Europe. His grand tour was not like that of other young aristocratic gentlemen in that he was interested primarily in meeting the great scientists of Europe.[17] In 1802 Smithson overturned popular scientific opinion by proving that zinc carbonates were true carbonate minerals, not zinc oxides. One calamine (a type of zinc carbonate) was renamed smithsonite posthumously in Smithson's honor in 1832. Smithsonite was a principal source of zinc until the 1880s.[18]Smithsonite (What on Earth is Smithsonite?)At the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, Smithson moved to Paris, where he lived most of the rest of his life. He enjoyed the company of many outstanding scientists, including the astronomer Dominique François Arago; the founder of comparative anatomy Georges Cuvier; the French chemist Claude Berthollet, who led the scientists on Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt in 1798; the Swedish chemist Jons Jakob Berzelius; the Dane Hans-Christian Oersted, discoverer of electro-magnetism; and the famed explorer Alexander von Humboldt.[19]Smithson’s brother, who also was living in Paris with his wife and child, died. He left his estate to Smithson to be held in trust for his son, Henry James Dickinson.[20] Smithson soon requested that his nephew change his name to Hungerford, an indication that he was already looking ahead to the disposition of his fortune. With his health deteriorating, In 1826, Smithson returned to London, composing a draft of his Last Will and Testament, only three years before his death.[21] He died on June 27, 1829, in Genoa, Italy, where he was buried in a British cemetery.The will left his estate (valued at the time of his death at $508,318)[22] to his nephew, Henry James Hungerford, and with a caveat of what would happen to the estate should Hungerford die without heirs.[23]Smithson decreed that the whole of his estate would go to“the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.”[24]Smithson died in 1829, at approximately 64 years old, while living in Genoa, Italy, and was buried there. His will was printed in the Times of London, and the exceptional potential windfall for the United States caught the eye of an American editor and was reprinted in The New York American.[25] Hungerford, Smithson’s nephew and heir, was only in his early 20s, and it seemed unlikely that this clause would ever go into effect. Six years later, June 5, 1835, Hungerford died of unknown causes in Pisa, Italy, leaving no heirs.[26]Smithson's mausoleum in Genoa, Italy (Why the Smithsonian almost didn't exist)The United States government was soon notified of this extraordinary bequest, and President Andrew Jackson announced the news to the U.S. Congress.[27] After heated debate as to whether the federal government had the authority to accept the gift, Congress accepted the legacy bequeathed to the nation and pledged the faith of the United States to the charitable trust July 1, 1836.[28] The estate, valued at more than $500,000, was awarded to the United States May 9, 1838.For the next eight years, Congress debated what to do with the estate—establish a university, astronomical observatory, scientific research laboratory, museum or library? It was finally President James K. Polk who signed the legislation Aug. 10, 1846, establishing the Smithsonian Institution.[29] Since its founding more than 160 years ago, the Smithsonian has become the world’s largest museum and research complex, with 19 museums and numerous research facilities.The press in Europe as well as the United States considered Smithson's bequest to the United States to be newsworthy even before the contingency clause became effective in 1835. Did he feel his gift would have more impact on a young nation with only a few major educational and research institutions? Did he hope to immortalize himself in the United States in reaction to opportunities denied him in Britain by his illegitimacy? (Smithson once wrote, "On my father's side I am a Northumberland, on my mother's I am related to kings, but this avails me not.")[30] Was he inspired by the tenets of many scientific societies of his day that held that civilization could achieve perfection through increased knowledge and public education?On both sides of the Atlantic, puzzlement and conjection ran wild, as many tried to understand Smithson's reasoning. Spite probably had something to do with Smithson's decision not to donate his fortune to Britain's premier and exclusive science organization, the Royal Society.[31] Smithson's fascination with the New World and his belief that the kind of utilitarian, egalitarian "public science" that most excited him and many of his compatriots would flourish best in America[32] This view of science was markedly different from the elitist gentleman-scholar orientation of the Royal Society.This Is The Oldest Known Photograph Of The Smithsonian Castle | DCistSmithson was euphoric about the French Revolution. Many of his colleagues gave credit to the United States for inspiring it and saw America as the most progressive society on earth, one in which individuals were valued for their contributions, not their pedigrees.[33] Fellow scientists told Smithson about meeting Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in Paris and admiring their scientific knowledge. America's founders regularly praised the pursuit of science, and no doubt Smithson was impressed that the election of 1800 was a contest between the president of the American Philosophical Society, Jefferson, and the president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, John Adams.[34]Smithson's lifelong health problems and/or his compulsive gambling were believed to be underlying factors in his decision.After his nephew died without an heir, Smithson's estate did come to the United States and a debate began about what this new institution would be. First, Richard Rush, an attorney from Philadelphia, filed a lawsuit in London to get the Smithson estate for the United States.[35] Rush retrieved Smithson's personal effects in 1838, along with the money from his estate.[36] Then Congressional debates continued until 1846 when legislation was passed creating the Smithsonian Institution.Smithsonian fire 1865 (The Devastating Fire That Nearly Consumed the Smithsonian Castle in 1865)Unfortunately, a fire in the Smithsonian Insitution Building/Castle in 1865 destroyed many of the Smithson letters, diaries, and other papers originally acquired by the Institution.[37] Among the handful of documents that survived the fire, is are a handwritten draft of Smithson's Last Will and Testament, dated October 23, 1826, and his "Receipt Book" containing formulas for food, beverages, and everyday products.[38]But Smithson's tale was not quite finished. In 1903 Alexander Grahm Bell travelled to Genoa ,Italy with the intent to disinter Smithson and transplant his remains to the United States.[39] In 1900, the owners of a Genoese marble quarry informed the British Consulate that by the end of 1905 blasting for marble would finally demolish the British cemetery.[40]Bell’s interest in the fate of Smithson’s remains was altruistic, for he had nothing to gain in terms of stature by making the journey. Smithson's remains obviously held some scientific interest for him, but forensic anatomy was not one of his specialties. As a man of science and a member of the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents, Bell felt a certain kinship with the obscure scientist who had amassed a fortune to give to the United States, a country he had never visited.[41] It seemed wrong to Bell that the bones of the institution’s benefactor would be dynamited. It turned out he was the only Smithsonian regent sufficiently concerned to take action.US Consul to Genoa, William Henry Bishop, holding Smithson's skull during exhumation (Why the Smithsonian almost didn't exist)Eventually Smithson's remains were sealed in a casket and shipped to the US, arriving on 7 January 1904.[42] After a procession to the castle, the coffin was placed in an upstairs meeting room where it stayed for a year while the Smithsonian Board of Regents decided what to do next. In the end, unable to reach a consensus on the proper burial, a janitor's closet was converted into the crypt where Smithson remains to this day.[43]In 1973, while the Secretary of the Smithsonian was out of town, James Goode, decided to exhume.the body because of circulating ghost stories.[44] Dozens of staff and vistors claimed to have seen Smithson wandering the halls and collections. Workmen opened up the end of the panel under the memorial and removed the coffin. Inside they discovered a metal casket that was soldered shut. Goode told them to use their torches to open it, but the coffin's silk lining caught fire..He didn't want them to ruin the silk by using an extinguisher so he told them to fill their mouths with water and come back to spray it down, which apparently they did.[45]The metal casket contained bones and dirt from the original gravesite and was taken across the road to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History for tests. Smithson was then reinterred with a full lab report of the findings. Currently, the Smithsonian is the world's large museum and research instituition, founded by an illegitimate man who never stepped onto American soil until decades after his passing.Footnotes[1] Who Was James Smithson?[2] Illegitimacy, Sexual Revolution, and Social Change in Modern Europe[3] http:// England, like many societies, was patrilineal. Property, status and identity transferred through the male line, making it economically and socially crucial to establish paternal identity and control female chastity through marriage. Paternal uncertainty could undermine the very building blocks of society. In an 1820 House of Lords debate over changes to the marriage laws and, therefore, to the status of children, the Lord Chancellor feared a ruling would ‘affect the whole mass of property in this kingdom’. In an England beset by fears of revolution, property rights were linked to wider concerns about voting rights, class and gender hierarchies and moral order. When the French revolutionary government temporarily abolished illegitimacy in 1793, the London newspaper Lloyd’s Evening Post reported that it was ‘highly dangerous to loosen the sacred ties of wedlock, and to authorise the offspring of criminal connexions to share in the privileges of legitimate children’.[4] https://www.lastchancetoread.com/docs/1793-01-07-lloyd-s-evening-post.aspx[5] James Macie Changes His Name to Smithson[6] The Fires of Paris[7] Elizabeth Hungerford Keate Macie (1728-1800) -...[8] James Smithson as a Student at Pembroke College, Oxford University, England[9] James Smithson at Oxford[10] University Life in Eighteenth-century Oxford[11] Smithsonites - Smithsonian Institution[12] Ancient Monuments upon the Shore between Kirkaldy and Kinghorn[13] James Smithson's 1st Scientific Paper - Royal Society of London and James Smithson - Google Arts & Culture[14] Apr 26 Royal Society of London Admits James Smithson[15] James Smithson Biographical Information[16] The Founder of the Smithsonian Institution Figured Out How to Brew a Better Cup of Coffee[17] A Man in Full[18] What on Earth is Smithsonite?[19] James Smithson Biographical Information[20] Digging Up James Smithson[21] When Congress Looked James Smithson's Gift Horse in the Mouth[22] Who Was James Smithson?[23] Last Will and Testament, October 23, 1826[24] English scientist James Smithson establishes the Smithsonian Institution[25] Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States[26] This Day in History: Remembering James Smithson (1765-1829)[27] Andrew Jackson, America’s Original Anti-Establishment Candidate[28] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/artifact/hr-5-28th-congress-bill-establish-smithsonian-institution-1846&ved=2ahUKEwjU8uPi6oTqAhVFSDABHQXnDQYQFjAQegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw3tWTPLB3kLROuihX7pJYNE&cshid=1592258953593[29] This Is The Oldest Known Photograph Of The Smithsonian Castle | DCist[30] Who Was James Smithson?[31] James Smithson: a lordly legacy[32] The Lost World of James Smithson[33] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(07)01407-8.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjP3KXa24TqAhXHRDABHRVgDH4QFjANegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw1XYu0eMmRWtjqsjPvnZgqZ[34] A Gift for the Ages[35] Former Yorker Richard Rush Gets Smithsonian Gold - Universal York[36] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-pdf/54/7/696/26895860/54-7-696.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi76oP214TqAhXRSjABHWUnAjcQFjAMegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw18lhTHg3-_AgMXPy2lmnAZ[37] Fire in the Smithsonian Institution Building, January 24, 1865[38] The Lost World of James Smithson[39] Image 3 of Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Samuel P. Langley, January 27, 1904 [40] Page on google.com[41] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/alexander-graham-bell-did-more-than-just-invent-the-telephone-118403860/[42] Alexander Graham Bell and Gilbert Grosvenor overseeing transfer of James Smithson's tomb from Italy to Washington, D.C.[43] The Creation of the Smithsonian[44] Secrets of the Smithson Monument - Smithsonian Institution Building, The Castle - Google Arts & Culture[45] The Lost World of James Smithson