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Forcing its belief?That entire “article”, if you could call it that, is a piss poor excuse for a journalistic piece. The Hindu and its allied liberal brigades have been after Akshaya Patra Foundation (APF) for some time now solely because it is run by ISKCON which is a Hindu organization. Now I have zero affinity towards the latter, by APF in itself is one of those handfuls of NGOs that are actually having a positive impact on the society.They serve a friggin 1.7 million schoolkids in India every day. And yet, have they ever tried to convert those kids to the Krishna mission? Or coerce their parents into joining? NO!The Hindu article quotes 4 kids out of those 1.7 million and makes a sweeping statement that “Karnataka’s schoolchildren unhappy with the mid-day meal”. 4 out of 1.7 million is a trend now.And you know what the kids’ objections were? “too bland”, “not tasty”, “too pheeka”. Since when have kids become the rightful judges of what is good for them? I used to hate tomatoes and spinach and karela when I was a kid. For a kid, anything sugar is good. Anything with a lot of tang. Is that fucking healthy? Do the people who wrote this allow their kids to pick their own meal?The foundation has made it clear that they do not serve food with onion and garlic because it is against their beliefs. When the organization was targeted by local activists and the Karnataka Food Commission, it duly complied and sent samples for quality and nutritional checks to the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN).Last December, when the food commission learnt of APF’s refusal to follow the ingredient list, it asked the government to send a notice to APF. “We pulled them up for disregarding the MOU,” a government official said on condition of anonymity. “We asked them, when every other NGO is following the menu, why can’t you. They then submitted documents that said the ingredients they used in the preparation of the food do not compromise on the nutritional requirements of the meal and that there are adequate substitutes for both onion and garlic in their meals.”The State Government sent these documents and APF’s menu for a review by the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) — which brings us to the present day.In February 2019, NIN gave its formal nod to APF’s menu and said: “The nutritive values of menus with ingredients used in the mentioned amounts certainly meet and often exceed the prescribed energy (Kcal) and protein requirements prescribed by MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development) for the MDM.”Should have been the end of the discussion, right?Nope.They called upon some “experts” to sign a petition (which is how things are done now, I guess). And then called upon NIN to withdraw its report.Think about how fucking devastated and morally bankrupt one has to be. You go to the authorities and when they clear charges against your target you go back and get a bunch of your equally jobless friends and sign a piece of paper and ask the authority to withdraw its comments because they did not fit your fucking agenda.Experts ask NIN to withdraw report favouring Akshay Patra“The National Institute of Nutrition, to our utter shock and dismay, has made sweeping statements praising Akshaya Patra Foundation, without carrying out any systematic scientific study. No empirical data was collected on the quantity and quality of ingredients used or amount consumed and amount wasted by children to certify food supplied by APF as nutritionally adequate,” says the letter signed by 10 organisations and 94 individuals.“You know, I am the omniscient, omnipotent deity that you all so love. So, I can’t be wrong. Hence, the NIN is wrong because their conclusions did not match mine. QED!”If you think their is no ulterior agenda here, think again.APF hurts one group the most — the Christian missionaries. They can now no longer lure people to their side with a couple of bags of rice.See this “health expert”.Even sterilised gowns and instruments are 'hygienic and clean" - why doesnt everyone just eat those? https://t.co/cjaGIV5ePa— Dr. Sylvia Karpagam (@sakie339) June 3, 2019Started off with a tongue-in-cheek comment on the hygiene part.Actually the Church is one of the few institutions that REALLY DOES charity in India. They dont take tax payers money from the government & pretend its all charity so that their followers will donate in lakhs and crores. Hats off to the Church for its service to the poor in India https://t.co/eZ2l6JsZZU— Dr. Sylvia Karpagam (@sakie339) June 5, 2019Ended up praising the Church since they are “one of the few truly charitable institutes in the nation”.A similar incident had happened late last year when the Government of Odisha had requested APF to include eggs in their mid-day meals.The Foundation declined citing the same reasons — it did not fit in with their beliefs. But later they all came to a mutually beneficial arrangement. APF will bear the cost of the eggs but it would be the duty of the State government to procure and prepare and deliver them.Odisha finds a way to serve children eggs at mid-day meals catered by ISKCON-linked NGOBut in an order dated November 11, 2018, Odisha’s school and mass education department said that Akshaya Patra has agreed to include two eggs per week per student in their mid-day meal in all schools under its service area. The order specifies that the NGO will not supply boiled eggs to schools directly. Instead, school managements will ensure that eggs are procured and boiled and Akshaya Patra will bear the cost.District Education Officers have been directed to deduct the costs of the eggs from the cooking allotment paid to Akshaya Patra.Karnataka could have done the same.But they chose not to. And instead malign a foundation that is feeding millions of hungry kids every day. The government itself said that they don’t have the budget to include eggs in the menu.Umashankar, however, said the government has no budget in the scheme to provide eggs. “The money we get is barely enough to sustain the existing scheme. There’s no talk of eggs as of now. The State Government is providing hot milk as part of its scheme. That’ll have to do for now.”APF runs a fiscally very tight ship. Of every 100 rupees donated to them, 92 is spent on the program, and only 8 is management expense. That is 92% utilization.[1]Also, they are able to feed one kid for an entire year on just 2800 rupees a year, of which half is through donations and half through government grants.Compare this to an org like PETA that many celebrities endorse.[2]They get about $50–60 million in donations every year, but spend only a small fraction actually doing what they claim to be doing.This is their 2015 Financial Statement.Of the $45 milion in expenses, $16 mn (35.5%) was for professional services and consultants (the celebrities they rope in from time to time), another $10 mn (22.2%) was for salary and other staff costs.$7.5 mn (16.7%) was for media and promotional activities (the useless campaigns they run, the shock-value protests they carry out). $3 mn for media (6.7%). All of this amounts to 81%.The overall expense that pertains to actually rescuing and caring for the animals or to further the cause of animal rights is very low (a part of operating expenses and donations to charities - about $4mn in total) which comes to about 6–8%.The Foundation has recently partnered with the Michel and Susan Dell Foundation[3] to provide safe drinking water and regular health checkups to school kids. The recently served their 3 billionth meal.[4] That is three meals for every Indian alive right now. It took them twelve years to serve their first billion, four for the next, and three for the latest. At this rate, they might serve another three billion meals before 2025. And more power to them!Independent studies by AC Nielsen and Harvard have concluded that the foundation has had an amazing positive impact on the Indian society.[5] [6]When AC Nielsen performed an impact assessment, they found increased enrollment, better health, and improved performance among students who received school lunches, especially among the female students. For example, the report showed a 13.8 percent and 34.2 percent improvement in enrollment for boys and girls, respectively, in participating Bangalore schools.I am actually glad that these dimwits, self-proclaimed saviors of the masses have started this campaign to malign the foundation. Of course, their fragile egos are chinking away. What will they do one day when there remains no hungry kid to feed, no naked poor soul to photograph, no penurious Indian to lure to their side with the promise of food and salvation.But their actions have brought spotlight on the foundation.Do you know that the foundation could do with more donations? And that those donations are tax-exempt under 80G?Yep. You can support 3 kids per year by donating 3300.Let’s make this happen folks!Footnotes[1] How your Donated Money to Akshaya Patra is Spent?[2] Deepak Mehta (दीपक मेहता)'s answer to What do you think of PETA's tweet to stop the use of anti-animal words?[3] Water ATMs: A 15-school pilot could pave the way for sustainable solutions[4] PM Modi Serves 3 Billionth Akshaya Patra Meal to Children in Vrindavan[5] AC Nielson Case Study[6] Affordable School Lunches: Breakthrough Innovation, Measurable Impact

This is a sample letter only. Information in this letter is not guaranteed to be factual. **John Carroll University1 John Carroll Blvd.University Heights, Ohio 44118January 1, 2017Dear Evaluation Committee:It is with great pleasure to nominate Ms. Mary Nominee for consideration for the 2016 John Carroll University Staff Service Award in recognition of her outstanding leadership and tireless efforts in addressing and raising awareness about issues of hunger in our community.The numbers are staggering. In 2014, the Cleveland Food Bank provided 32.9 million pounds of food to 618 hunger programs in six Northeast Ohio counties. Nearly 35% of recipients were children under eighteen years of age and 15% were the elderly. For many recipients, 79% of whom live below the poverty line, every month can bring with it challenging decisions about whether to pay the rent or seek needed medical care, to put gas in the car or healthy food on the table, to purchase warm gloves or school supplies for a child.But what is also staggering is how the efforts of one person, one particular person, can truly make a difference in addressing this problem. Mary Nominee has volunteered at the Cleveland Food Bank since moving to the area in 2005, where she has just completed her 800th hour of volunteer service. At the Food Bank, Mary has provided support in multiple ways, from sorting and repacking donations and preparing hot meals to making deliveries, distributing literature, and even recruiting other volunteers to assist. In the spring of 2013, Mary headed the Volunteer Committee for Feeding America, a comprehensive nationwide study conducted every four years to analyze hunger in our communities. In this capacity, Mary managed the coordination and scheduling of volunteers at food pantries and soup kitchens across the area, who surveyed hundreds of clients and collected valuable information for the study.In addition to this work, Mary has been deeply committed to and involved in the local foods initiative in the Cleveland area. She sits on the board of Local Food Cleveland and serves as advisor to the Central Community Cooperative Project, an effort to start a food cooperative in Cleveland’s Central community (where there is such a dearth of grocery stores that it is actually easier for residents to buy a Big Mac than an apple). At JCU, Mary has been an annual participant in the Center for Service and Social Action’s Jesuit Day of Service event, as well as being a regular presence in JCU’s own community garden, where she could often be seen spending her lunch hour in weeding, watering, and tending the garden.Mary strives to utilize every available “pulpit” in her efforts to raise awareness about this issue. She has presented programs about hunger in Cleveland at her church and to various social groups and clubs. She has organized letter-writing campaigns on behalf of funding for food banks targeting state and federal government officials. She has walked in JCU’s Footprints for Fatima 5K and advertised and volunteered with JCU’s summer lunch program partnership with the Jewish Federation of Cleveland. In addition, somehow, Mary also finds time to serve as an active member of her church and to tutor children in reading at the Intergenerational School in Cleveland.Because of these efforts, Mary has earned not only the award for “2013 Volunteer of the Year” at the Cleveland Foodbank, but also the respect and gratitude of those for whom and with whom she serves, her church family, her neighborhood residents, and her peers here at JCU. As one of those peers whom Mary has inspired and motivated to service, I strongly urge you to award her the 2016 John Carroll University Staff Service Award.Sincerely,

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