THIS CITY full of monuments is about to get another. Modest Albert Einstein is going to be memorialized, at immoderate expense, by a million-dollar statue to be placed beside the Mall. Slouching on his granite bench, he will be 21 feet long. The proposed Einstein statue -- a gigantic, ill-advised chunk of public piety -- promises to be gross as well as trite.
", "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:09Z", "dateModified": "2011-10-21T16:19:17Z" } }, { "key": "TA9REQ9U", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/TA9REQ9U", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/TA9REQ9U", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/MKDHBFTJ", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": { "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "TA9REQ9U", "version": 1, "parentItem": "MKDHBFTJ", "itemType": "note", "note": "Sculptor Robert Berks, known for his \"chewing gum\" style and his bronze heads of the Kennedys, is building yet another monument in Washington. This one -- to Albert Einstein -- will be one of the most expensive statues of our time.
", "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:08Z", "dateModified": "2011-10-21T16:18:50Z" } }, { "key": "U3SKRHTE", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/U3SKRHTE", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/U3SKRHTE", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "creatorSummary": "Koenig", "parsedDate": "1988-09-23", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "U3SKRHTE", "version": 1, "itemType": "newspaperArticle", "title": "Scram, Pigeons! Kids are Here", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Mary Ellen", "lastName": "Koenig" } ], "abstractNote": "", "publicationTitle": "The Washington Post", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "Sep 23, 1988", "volume": "", "issue": "", "edition": "", "section": "", "pages": "WE51", "ISSN": "01908286", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "2008-06-17T19:30:48Z", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ProQuest", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [ "HCQS9T6G", "KBUJAU3X" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:10Z", "dateModified": "2010-04-09T16:17:24Z" } }, { "key": "JGQIHESM", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/JGQIHESM", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/JGQIHESM", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "creatorSummary": "Richard", "parsedDate": "1978-11-19", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "JGQIHESM", "version": 1, "itemType": "newspaperArticle", "title": "End of the Bronze Age", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Paul", "lastName": "Richard" } ], "abstractNote": "", "publicationTitle": "The Washington Post", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "Nov 19, 1978", "volume": "", "issue": "", "edition": "", "section": "", "pages": "L1", "ISSN": "01908286", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ProQuest", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [ "HCQS9T6G", "KBUJAU3X" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:09Z", "dateModified": "2010-04-09T16:16:00Z" } }, { "key": "DIZF4QJT", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/DIZF4QJT", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/DIZF4QJT", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "parsedDate": "1979-04-23", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "DIZF4QJT", "version": 1, "itemType": "newspaperArticle", "title": "Monument to Einstein Is Dedicated in Washington", "creators": [], "abstractNote": "", "publicationTitle": "New York Times", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "Apr 23, 1979", "volume": "", "issue": "", "edition": "", "section": "", "pages": "A12", "ISSN": "03624331", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ProQuest", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [ "HCQS9T6G", "KBUJAU3X" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:08Z", "dateModified": "2010-04-09T16:08:24Z" } }, { "key": "MKDHBFTJ", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/MKDHBFTJ", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/MKDHBFTJ", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "creatorSummary": "Richard", "parsedDate": "1978-11-14", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "MKDHBFTJ", "version": 1, "itemType": "newspaperArticle", "title": "Giant Among Statues On the Mall", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Paul", "lastName": "Richard" } ], "abstractNote": "", "publicationTitle": "The Washington Post", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "Nov 14, 1978", "volume": "", "issue": "", "edition": "", "section": "", "pages": "B1", "ISSN": "01908286", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "2008-06-17T18:56:00Z", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ProQuest", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [ "HCQS9T6G", "KBUJAU3X" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:08Z", "dateModified": "2010-04-09T16:05:12Z" } }, { "key": "AMN6DSEK", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/AMN6DSEK", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/AMN6DSEK", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/Z8QHPC7F", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": {}, "data": { "key": "AMN6DSEK", "version": 1, "parentItem": "Z8QHPC7F", "itemType": "attachment", "linkMode": "imported_url", "title": "NAS Reopens Albert Einstein Memorial After Restoration", "accessDate": "2008-06-17T19:47:38Z", "url": "http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=04162006", "note": "", "contentType": "text/html", "charset": "utf-8", "filename": "newsitem.html", "md5": null, "mtime": 2147483647, "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:31Z" } }, { "key": "GME4MFAG", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/GME4MFAG", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/GME4MFAG", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/JWGTQZUI", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": { "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "GME4MFAG", "version": 1, "parentItem": "JWGTQZUI", "itemType": "attachment", "linkMode": "imported_file", "title": "out-3.pdf", "accessDate": "", "url": "", "note": "", "contentType": "application/pdf", "charset": "", "filename": "out-3.pdf", "md5": "2e6884af5643e63d6ce4563e6f8c9464", "mtime": 2147483647, "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:12Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:31Z" } }, { "key": "G8J55R6P", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/G8J55R6P", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/G8J55R6P", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/K7KGR9UX", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": {}, "data": { "key": "G8J55R6P", "version": 1, "parentItem": "K7KGR9UX", "itemType": "attachment", "linkMode": "imported_file", "title": "Picture 4.png", "accessDate": "", "url": "", "note": "", "contentType": "image/png", "charset": "", "filename": "Picture 4.png", "md5": "ee0c3b95f5e0a3d673db804fe78a9824", "mtime": 2147483647, "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:11Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:31Z" } }, { "key": "3HHJUG6D", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/3HHJUG6D", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/3HHJUG6D", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/K7KGR9UX", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": { "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "3HHJUG6D", "version": 1, "parentItem": "K7KGR9UX", "itemType": "attachment", "linkMode": "imported_file", "title": "out-2.pdf", "accessDate": "", "url": "", "note": "", "contentType": "application/pdf", "charset": "", "filename": "out-2.pdf", "md5": "9943d12faec3c80b19f1c7c8ff442382", "mtime": 2147483647, "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:11Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:31Z" } }, { "key": "4NF8KDAK", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/4NF8KDAK", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/4NF8KDAK", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/HMZUTIP8", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": { "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "4NF8KDAK", "version": 1, "parentItem": "HMZUTIP8", "itemType": "attachment", "linkMode": "imported_file", "title": "out.pdf", "accessDate": "", "url": "", "note": "", "contentType": "application/pdf", "charset": "", "filename": "out.pdf", "md5": "fd91b11d21d1d9f1852253e1acdd90e7", "mtime": 2147483647, "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:12Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:30Z" } }, { "key": "WIA3EMW8", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/WIA3EMW8", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/WIA3EMW8", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/69EXM5AC", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": { "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "WIA3EMW8", "version": 1, "parentItem": "69EXM5AC", "itemType": "attachment", "linkMode": "imported_file", "title": "out.pdf", "accessDate": "", "url": "", "note": "", "contentType": "application/pdf", "charset": "", "filename": "out.pdf", "md5": "d88eeea6835361a5ddeb8e3a64b7ec10", "mtime": 2147483647, "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:09Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:30Z" } }, { "key": "T9XD8GHB", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/T9XD8GHB", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/T9XD8GHB", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/5HU8RJTK", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": {}, "data": { "key": "T9XD8GHB", "version": 1, "parentItem": "5HU8RJTK", "itemType": "attachment", "linkMode": "imported_url", "title": "National Academy of Sciences: The NAS Building: The Albert Einstein Memorial", "accessDate": "2008-06-17T19:38:35Z", "url": "http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ABOUT_building_einstein_memorial", "note": "", "contentType": "text/html", "charset": "utf-8", "filename": "PageServer.html", "md5": null, "mtime": 2147483647, "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:08Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:30Z" } }, { "key": "DFZRWHSN", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/DFZRWHSN", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/DFZRWHSN", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/GFBA2ZZ9", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": { "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "DFZRWHSN", "version": 1, "parentItem": "GFBA2ZZ9", "itemType": "note", "note": "The bronze figure of the modern age's most celebrated man is 12 feet high and is seated on a three-tiered semicircular bench of North Carolina granite. At the feet of Albert Einstein is a map of the heavens 28 feet in diameter, and", "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z" } }, { "key": "GFBA2ZZ9", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/GFBA2ZZ9", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/GFBA2ZZ9", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "creatorSummary": "Parrott", "parsedDate": "1979-04-23", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "GFBA2ZZ9", "version": 1, "itemType": "newspaperArticle", "title": "Newsmakers----", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Jennings", "lastName": "Parrott" } ], "abstractNote": "", "publicationTitle": "Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File)", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "Apr 23, 1979", "volume": "", "issue": "", "edition": "", "section": "", "pages": "SD2", "ISSN": "04583035", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "http://mutex.gmu.edu:2048/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=650109092&Fmt=7&clientId=31810&RQT=309&VName=HNP", "accessDate": "2008-06-17T19:20:08Z", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ProQuest", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [ "HCQS9T6G", "KBUJAU3X" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z" } }, { "key": "Z8QHPC7F", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/Z8QHPC7F", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/Z8QHPC7F", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "parsedDate": "2006-04-17", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "Z8QHPC7F", "version": 1, "itemType": "webpage", "title": "NAS Reopens Albert Einstein Memorial After Restoration", "creators": [], "abstractNote": "", "websiteTitle": "", "websiteType": "", "date": "April 17, 2006", "publisher": "", "place": "", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=04162006", "accessDate": "2008-06-17T19:47:37Z", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [ "HCQS9T6G", "KBUJAU3X" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z" } }, { "key": "GW2HXJUP", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/GW2HXJUP", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/GW2HXJUP", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/UISZG9HH", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": { "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "GW2HXJUP", "version": 1, "parentItem": "UISZG9HH", "itemType": "note", "note": "In 1939 Albert Einstein walked into David Rothman's general store to buy a $1.25 pair of sandals. He thought he recognized the music playing on the store's phonograph as Mozart's 40th symphony, Mr. Rothman recalls. (Mozart meant a great deal to Einstein, for it was this composer who first awakened him to the mathematical structure of music.)", "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z" } }, { "key": "UISZG9HH", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/UISZG9HH", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/UISZG9HH", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "creatorSummary": "ClaytonJonesStaffcorrespondentofTheChristianScienceMonitor", "parsedDate": "1978-10-10", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "UISZG9HH", "version": 1, "itemType": "newspaperArticle", "title": "Celebrating. EINSTEIN", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "By", "lastName": "ClaytonJonesStaffcorrespondentofTheChristianScienceMonitor" } ], "abstractNote": "", "publicationTitle": "The Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file)", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "Oct 10, 1978", "volume": "", "issue": "", "edition": "", "section": "", "pages": "B9", "ISSN": "", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "http://mutex.gmu.edu:2048/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=185301862&Fmt=7&clientId=31810&RQT=309&VName=HNP", "accessDate": "2008-06-17T18:52:51Z", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ProQuest", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [ "HCQS9T6G", "KBUJAU3X" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z" } }, { "key": "2UJ4F3PW", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/2UJ4F3PW", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/2UJ4F3PW", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/D5BSPPG8", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": { "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "2UJ4F3PW", "version": 1, "parentItem": "D5BSPPG8", "itemType": "note", "note": "The statue is one of the most popular in Washington, particularly with school groups. The relaxed, informal pose of Einstein lends itself to great group photos and it's one of the few statues for which no one will yell at you if you climb in his lap.", "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z" } }, { "key": "D5BSPPG8", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/D5BSPPG8", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/D5BSPPG8", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "D5BSPPG8", "version": 1, "itemType": "webpage", "title": "Statue / monument of Albert Einstein in Washington DC by Sculptor Robert Berks", "creators": [], "abstractNote": "", "websiteTitle": "", "websiteType": "", "date": "", "publisher": "", "place": "", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "http://www.kittytours.org/thatman2/search.asp?subject=85", "accessDate": "2008-06-17T19:40:05Z", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [ "HCQS9T6G", "KBUJAU3X" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:13Z" } }, { "key": "JWGTQZUI", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/JWGTQZUI", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/JWGTQZUI", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "creatorSummary": "S.GREELEYBethesda", "parsedDate": "1978-12-11", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "JWGTQZUI", "version": 1, "itemType": "newspaperArticle", "title": "'Incredibly Impressive' Statue of Einstein", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "RICHARD", "lastName": "S.GREELEYBethesda" } ], "abstractNote": "", "publicationTitle": "The Washington Post (1974-Current file)", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "Dec 11, 1978", "volume": "", "issue": "", "edition": "", "section": "", "pages": "A24", "ISSN": "01908286", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "http://mutex.gmu.edu:2048/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=137155492&Fmt=7&clientId=31810&RQT=309&VName=HNP", "accessDate": "2008-06-17T19:12:53Z", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ProQuest", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [ "HCQS9T6G", "KBUJAU3X" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:12Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:12Z" } }, { "key": "K92NG6Z9", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/K92NG6Z9", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/K92NG6Z9", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/ZK6GC6TE", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": { "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "K92NG6Z9", "version": 1, "parentItem": "ZK6GC6TE", "itemType": "note", "note": "We live on a planet that orbits a star, our Sun. The Sun is one of two hundred billion stars that make up our Galaxy, the Milky Way. When you look up at the sky at night, all the stars you see belong to our Galaxy; all are orbitingabout a very distant center. The stars in the Galaxy are not distributed at random; most are located in a flattened disk. The Sun too is in the disk, far from the center. It takes the Sun, moving at 500,000 miles per hour, about 200 million years to orbit once around the center of the Galaxy.\n\nWithout a telescope, we see in the night sky only the nearest and brightest stars of our Galaxy, numbering just a few thousand. During the day, blinded by the Sun, we fail to see the stars in the daytime sky. The celestial map at Einstein's feet plots the position of th estars at noon, April 22, 1979, the time of the dedication of this statue. But the map includes more than stars visible to the \"naked eye.\" It plots the position of the Sun (a one inch brass disc), and our planetary neighbors Mercury, Venus, and Mars -- in their appropriate phases, plus four asteroids or minor plants, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta.\n\nObjects of particular interest in our Galaxy are added: variable strs, which vary in brightness; double stars, pairs that appear to be very close together; spectroscopic binaries, two stars orbiting one another so closely that they appear as a single star and can be differentiated only by study of their spectra; globular clusters, dense spheroids of hundreds of thousands of stars populating the halo of our Galaxy, each cluster orbiting the center on a plunging orbit; open clusters, irregular groups located in the dusthy disk of the Galaxy, whose brightest stars have been newly formed from the surrounding gas and dust; and pulsars, aging, collapsed stars that emit beacons of radio pulses at regular intervals. Together, these objects comprise the celestial objects astronomers study at the end of the 20th Century.\n\nFaintly etched across the map is the region we call the Milky Way -- actually the combined light of all the stars along the line-of-sight viewed through the disk of our Galaxy. You will have to search carefully to find it at Einstein's feet, as you must look hard, away from city lights, to find it in the sky.\n\nAstronomers have known for almost 100 years that our Galaxy is just one of billions and billions of galaxies in the universe, each containing vast numbers of stars. We see our closest large spiral galaxy neighbor in the constellation of Andromeda, thus we have named it the Andromeda glaxy (also M31). At a very dark site, away from city lights, you can see it as a faint \"fuzz\" in the Fall sky. Use this map to try to find it on the map at Einstein's feet, where it is also faint. Five other galaxies are included in the map; one, M33 is near M31. Can you find others?\n\nAlso indicated on the map are ten Quasars. These are enourmously bright nuclei of very distand galaxies. Astronomers speculate they may be exotic massive nuclear black holes caught in the process of swallowing some of the stars in their galaxies.\n\nThe Einstein map identifies more than 2,700 stars, marked by stainless steel studs, which range in size from 1/4 to 5/8 of an inch, from faintest to brightest. Each stud is beveled so that it is visible from any angle. Lines of right ascension, similar to lines of longitude on earth maps, radiate from the North Pole at 15 degree intervals. Concentric circles of declination, similar to parallels of latitude on earth, ring the pole at 30-degree intervals. These lines form a grid on which can be fixed the sky position of celestial objects.\n\nThe map, 28 feet in diameter, depicts 55 percent of the entire sky. It was prepared with the assisance of P. Kenneth Seidelmann and Richard E. Schmidt, astronomers at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.", "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:12Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:12Z" } }, { "key": "KT7HQZZW", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/KT7HQZZW", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/KT7HQZZW", "type": "text/html" }, "up": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/ZK6GC6TE", "type": "application/json" } }, "meta": { "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "KT7HQZZW", "version": 1, "parentItem": "ZK6GC6TE", "itemType": "note", "note": "Detailed photos and transcriptions of the statue", "tags": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:12Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:12Z" } }, { "key": "ZK6GC6TE", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/ZK6GC6TE", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/ZK6GC6TE", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "numChildren": 2 }, "data": { "key": "ZK6GC6TE", "version": 1, "itemType": "webpage", "title": "EINSTEIN, Albert: Statue at the Nat'l Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C......", "creators": [], "abstractNote": "", "websiteTitle": "", "websiteType": "", "date": "", "publisher": "", "place": "", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "http://www.dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0001310.htm", "accessDate": "2008-06-17T20:09:14Z", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [ "HCQS9T6G", "KBUJAU3X" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:12Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:12Z" } }, { "key": "HMZUTIP8", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "user", "id": 358, "name": "Trevor Owens", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/users/358/items/HMZUTIP8", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/tjowens/items/HMZUTIP8", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "parsedDate": "1960-06-18", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "HMZUTIP8", "version": 1, "itemType": "newspaperArticle", "title": "Einstein Memorial May Be Erected Here", "creators": [], "abstractNote": "", "publicationTitle": "The Washington Post, Times Herald", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "Jun 18, 1960", "volume": "", "issue": "", "edition": "", "section": "", "pages": "C19", "ISSN": "", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "http://mutex.gmu.edu:2048/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=206962472&Fmt=7&clientId=31810&RQT=309&VName=HNP", "accessDate": "2008-06-17T18:49:05Z", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "ProQuest", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [ "HCQS9T6G", "KBUJAU3X" ], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2008-11-26T16:40:11Z", "dateModified": "2008-11-26T16:40:11Z" } } ]