The Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum is a A museum is a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. This definition is taken... museum in the northwest corner of the campus of the The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a major public research university in the Seattle metropolitan area. Its primary campus is in Seattles University District, and it has two branch campuses in Tacoma and Bothell. Locally known as U Dub, it is the largest university in the Pacific... University of Washington, at the intersection of N.E. 45th Street and 15th Avenue N.E. in City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369.2 km² 217.2 km² 152... Seattle, Washington, USA's The University District is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, so named because the main campus of the University of Washington is located there. It is bounded on the west by Interstate 5, on the east by the Burke-Gilman Trail and Ravenna Avenue N.E., on the south by the... University District. It is the only major Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as a number of distinct scientific disciplines. Most definitions include the study of living things (e.g. biology, including botany and zoology); other definitions extend the topic to include paleontology, ecology or biochemistry, as well as parts of... natural history museum in the Darker red states are always part of the Pacific Northwest. The lighter pink areas around them are sometimes included. The Pacific Northwest (PNW) is an area often defined as northwestern corner of the continental United States. Its boundaries are imprecise: the Pacific coast states of Washington and Oregon are always... Pacific Northwest. Its collection numbers over 5 million specimens, including Totem poles are carved from great trees, most often Western Redcedar, along the Pacific coast of North America. Haida Totem pole in Victoria, British Columbia Totem poles often have lineage crests on them. During the nineteenth century, the fashion was for totem poles to be erected as integral parts of... totem poles, Species Thuja plicata Western Redcedar, Thuja plicata, a species of thuja, is an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to the northwestern US and southwestern Canada, from southern Alaska and British Columbia south to northwest California and inland to western Montana. It has been introduced to other... redcedar Canoe at El Nido, Philippines A canoe is a relatively small human-powered boat. It is propelled by one or more paddlers, the number depending on the size of canoe. The paddles are almost always single-bladed. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, either seated on supports or... canoes, a Orders Saurischia    Sauropodomorpha    Theropoda Ornithischia Dinosaurs are giant reptiles that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for most of their 165-million year existence. They became extinct 65 million years ago (Ma) at the end of the Cretaceous period, and are known from fossilized bones, feces... dinosaur Skeleton is also a winter sport: see skeleton (sport). In biology, the skeleton or skeletal system is the biological system providing support in living organisms. (By extension, non-biological outline structures such as gantries or buildings may also acquire skeletons.) Skeletal systems are commonly divided into three types - external (an... skeleton, FOSSIL is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under DOS. FOSSIL stands for Fido Opus SEAdog Standard Interface Layer and was made by a group of Fidonet sysops to make their software work on different machines. External link Fundamentals of FOSSIL implementation and use Categories: Telecommunications ... fossils, and more.

The museum was founded by the Young Naturalists Society in 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events January January 4 - The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside. January 20 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster. January 26 - Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum February February 5 - King Leopold II... 1885. In 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). Events January January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba. January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City. January 3 - The first known use of the word automobile, in an editorial in the New York... 1899 the legislature named it the Washington State Museum. Its present building was built in 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 1 - Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand January 3 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro January 4 - New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board January 5... 1962 via a bequest from the estate of Caroline McGilvra Burke, at which point the museum was renamed in honor of her late husband Judge Thomas Burke.

External link

• Burke Museum Official Site (http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/)