Dozens of furloughed federal workers visited the Capitol Hill office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to make a personal appeal to end the partial government shutdown because of the financial hardship it's causing.

Dozens of furloughed federal workers visited the Capitol Hill office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to make a personal appeal to end the partial government shutdown because of the financial hardship it's causing.

A Dutch collector has presented the United States with an American flag flown on the stern of a boat during the World War II D-Day landing on Utah Beach.

A Dutch collector has presented the United States with an American flag flown on the stern of a boat during the World War II D-Day landing on Utah Beach.

Baby panda Xiao Qi Ji celebrates his first birthday by eating a fruitsicle cake with his mother Mei Xiang at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC, in front of delighted visitors (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

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It was the moment that humanity learned we had the awesome power to erase an entire species off the face of the Earth in what was the scientific equivalent...

1. Boxes of petitions being delivered by A-bomb survivors to Smithsonian representatives

2. Smithsonian represent
ative
3. News
conference
4. Various of A
-bomb survivors
5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese)...

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One of America's most treasured icons has been saved from being snapped up by a private buyer and lost to t
he public.
The famous 205-year-old portrait of George Washington,...

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Visitors to the National Zoo in Washington DC will soon be able to enjoy the site of cute and loveable panda bears once ag
ain.
Two new pandas are expected to arrive from China on...

The retired US space shuttle Endeavour touched down in Houston, Texas on Wednesday - the first stop on its way to a new life in a Californian museum.

Bolted to the top of a jumbo jet, NASA's youngest...

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Dulles, Virginia - May 23,
2006
1. Various shots of Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer coming in to land at Steven F. Udvar-H
azy Centre
2. Various shots of GlobalFlyer...

Washington DC, 12 December 2003

1. Boxes of petitions being delivered by atomic bomb survivors to Smithsonian offi
cials
2. Close up of Smithsonian repr
esentative
3. Wide shot of...

Winter kept its icy hold on much of the United States Monday, with snow falling and temperatures dropping as schools and offices closed and people from the Mid-Atlantic to Northeast reluctantly waited out...

More than four decades after the Apollo 11 moon landing, a cloth bag full of souvenirs brought back by astronaut Neil Armstrong has come to light.

Among the trove: a 16 mm movie camera from inside the lunar...

1. Concorde on barge as it pulls into New York Harbor

2. Concorde with other boats passing
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3. Concorde with helicopter flying
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4. Concorde as she passes the st
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1. Exterior shot of National Museum of Kenya 2. Various shots of fragments of bone being displayed at press conference 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Richard Potts, Smithsonian Institute: "What we found was fragmentary, or a...

1. Concorde on barge as it pulls into New York Harbor

2. Concorde with other boats passing
by it
3. Concorde with helicopter flying
along-side
4. Concorde as she passes the st
atue of liberty
5....

SHOTLIST: Washington, DC 24 May 2001

Smithsonian Institution Anim
ation
1. animation of Triceratop
s skeleton
2. animation morph
s into dinosaur
3. animation of walki
ng dinosaur...

1. Wide of Concorde on barge as it pulls into New York Harbour

2. Concorde with other boats passing
by it
3. Concorde with helicopter flying
along-side
4. Concorde passing the St
atue of...

1. Exterior of museum

2. Close up of
sign
3. Museum director Hussein Abbas arrives wit
h soldiers
4. W
ide of ceremony

5. Close up
of Abbas
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7. Abbas receives letter from...

1. Douglas Owsley, forensic anthropologist, uncovering skull and model of "jane" - remains of a 14-year-old girl who experts believe was cannibalised post-mortem in colonial Jamestown, UPSOUND:...

1. Exterior of Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum annex, Chantilly, Virginia

2. Interior of new museum's new annex, showing Enola Gay (R on tail
fin)
3. Wide shot of podium with Jack...

FILE: Cape Canaveral, Florida - date unknown

1. Various of one of the space shuttles takin
g off
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VOICED: Americans prepare as possible government shutdown nears