Hampton Roads City Nature Challenge, April 30 to May 3, 2021

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Bumblebee on purple lantana in the Park. Photo credit: Amanda Shields/ The Mariners’ Museum and Park.

您和您的家人有小屋发烧吗?您想参加汉普顿道路的社区科学工作吗?您喜欢水手公园和我们地区周围的其他自然区域吗?好吧,再也没有 - 我们为您提供活动!

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What is “Hidden Histories”?

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“Photographs of the Personnel of The Mariners’ Museum” dated 1935. INST-ST-28, Courtesy of The Mariners’ Museum and Park.

Whatis“隐藏的历史”?

Just as I was about ready to post this blog, I had to rewrite my opening because I just spent 45 rewarding minutes on the phone with a wonderful gentleman, Mr. Brown. Our mission at The Mariners’ Museum and Park is to connect people to the world’s waters – because through the waters, through our shared maritime heritage – we are connected to one another.Read more

Dr. Gladys B. West: The woman who reshaped the modern world

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格拉迪斯·韦斯特(Gladys West)博士在2018年12月6日在华盛顿特区的五角大楼举行的仪式上,将其入选空军空间和导弹先驱名人堂。西部是所谓的“隐藏人物”部分之一。在电子系统之前为美国军方进行计算的团队。空军空间和导弹先驱者名人堂是空军的最高荣誉之一。(Adrian Cadiz的照片)

Celebrating International Day of Women, Girls in Science, and Black History Month!

Today, February 11, 2021, is the国际科学妇女和女孩日。这一天的目的是纪念和庆祝全球妇女和女孩的科学的贡献,并承诺不断扩大科学,以使妇女和女孩更容易获得和包容。2021将重点放在Covid-19。全球定位系统(GPS)对于准确跟踪与Covid-19相关的数据至关重要的技术。Read more

Hampton Roads during WWII: Army Nurse Corps

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Major Walter C. Stebbins stands with the 81st Field Hospital Unit during debarkation. To his right is Captain Eileen E. Donnelly Chief Nurse of the 81st Field Hospital Unit since its activation.

The United States Army Nurse Corps (ANC) was formally established by the US Congress in 1901. Women served as nurses in previous wars, but it wasn’t until 1901 that they were officially on Army Payroll. The ANC did not see large numbers of active duty nurses until World War I, when 20,000 registered Nurses joined. Numbers dropped after the end of WWI, and in 1941 there were fewer than 1,000 Nurses in the ANC. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor numbers quickly grew; six months later there were over 12,000 on duty Nurses. Over the course of World War II, over 59,000 nurses served in the ANC,许多在北非,英格兰,缅甸和西南太平洋的国外服务

While many of the enrollees had nursing experience, few had military experience. A four week training course was instituted for ANC Nurses which taughtArmy organization; military customs and courtesies; field sanitation; defense against air, chemical, and mechanized attack; personnel administration; military requisitions and correspondence, and property responsibility.Nurses worked in all areas of the army-they went wherever the wounded were, and during WWII they worked close to the front lines.Nurses served under fire in field hospitals and evacuation hospitals, on hospital trains and hospital ships, and as flight nurses on medical transport planes.Read more

The Emancipation Proclamation: What did it actually say and mean for African Americans in the 1860s?

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Abraham Lincoln. The Mariners’ Museum MS0311/-01#005

谷歌搜索美国历史上的重要文件,您将获得包括《独立宣言》,《联邦条款》,《人权法案》,《宪法》以及《解放宣言》的清单。

Going to school in the mid to late 80s in the panhandle of Florida, it was constantly being drilled into my head that the Emancipation Proclamation, written in 1863, freed全部slaves in the United States of America. Having studied the Emancipation Proclamation document for various positions that I have held over the years, I have come to understand the significance of this important document so much more.Read more

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