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There's a mastadon in my back yard. Can you send some scientists
Do you have the Original Bible? You know, 10 Commands, tablets,
What's the name of the guy who invented the wheel? ("How do you know
Where do you keep the flying saucers you've captured?
Can a small plane land on the Mall? The caller was sure it could
Is Fawn Hall's underwear on display? This from "two men in a
Where is the Ark of the Covenant? (Try Indiana Jones movies.)
Does the Smithsonian display Civil War planes?
Is the Smithsonian interested in buying the carcass of Bigfoot?
Will the Smithsonian sell the starship Enterprise, used for the
Can the Smithsonian set up a caller with a hula teacher?
How do you say "I'm thinking of you" in Apache?
Can you send "all the information you have on human evolution, even
How about the coin George Washington tossed across the Delaware
Could the Smithsonian take a "petrified whale" off a caller's
And one of Benedict's favorites: an offer to donate a collection
The Smithsonian Museum's phone answerers usually get questions like
"How do you get there?" "When are you open?" etc. More detailed questions
get shunted to departments such as Anthropology. But every so often, you
get funny ones. Here are some Cordelia Benedict of the Smithsonian's
telephone information services and Marilyn London of the anthropology
outreach and public information office have gotten over the years:
to dig it up? "There was literally a mastodon buried on her ranch,"
Benedict says. "She was right. We referred her to the vertebrate
department, I think."
Moses, etc?
it was a man?" London replied.)
since "all those planes in the Air and Space Museum had to get there
somehow."
Texas bar who obviously had a lot to drink," says Benedict.
popular "Star Trek" television show? "She only wanted it if the transporter
was in working condition,"
Benedict says. (The only life-size Enterprise at the Smithsonian
is the space shuttle of the same name).
"Actually, I tracked one down for her," remembers London. "We have a curator
involved in South Pacific and Hawaiian culture, so she knew one."
the secret stuff?" from a grade school letter writer.
River?
hands? He was referred to paleontology. "I told him that means `very
old biology,' and he said, `good because this is a very old whale,'"
Benedict recalls.
of potato chips resembling "famous people and animals."
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