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- International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies - Quasi-official group of public agencies charged with protection and management of North America's fish and wildlife resources. Members represent the states, provinces, and federal governments of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Includes news of activities and issues.
- Butterfly Habitat Garden - Eleven thousand square foot area that supports plant species having specific relationships to life cycles of eastern United States butterflies. Features profiles of the habitat's components. National Museum of Natural History.
- What's Cooking? Julia Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian - Represents Julia Child's extraordinary influence on the way Americans think about their food and its history. Features a project diary, featured tools, kitchen stories and resources.
- Ancient Chinese Pottery and Bronze - Selection of vessels begins at the important juncture between the end of the Neolithic pottery tradition and the emergence of the metalworking tradition and stops at the end of the Bronze Age and the rise of glazed stoneware. Features an online exhibition. Freer Gallery of Art.
- Shades of Green and Blue: Chinese Celadon Ceramics - Presents the technical and aesthetic evolution of celadon, revealing the impact of court patronage and celadon's development throughout Asia as an export item. Features an online exhibition. Freer Gallery of Art.
- Korean Ceramics - Korean ceramics made between 200 and 1900, ranging from tableware and Buddhist cinerary urns made for courtiers to bowls, bottles and storage jars used by peasants. Features an online exhibition. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
- Luxury Arts of the Silk Route Empires - Examines the effects of multicultural interaction on the arts of the first millennium with ornaments, bowls, cups, bottles, jars mirrors, ewers and ritual objects from Iran, China, Turkey, Syria and Afganistan. Features an online exhibition and a gallery guide. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
- Buddhist Art - Includes painted scrolls, bronze and wood sculptures, and bronze ritual bells from Japan, stone carvings and sculptures from India and Buddhist cave carvings and bronze statues from Imperial China. Features an online exhibition and a gallery guide. Freer Gallery of Art.
- Fountains of Light: Islamic Metalwork from the Nuhad Es-Said Collection - Provides an in-depth view of the history of inlaid metalwork from its inception in Iran and present-day Afghanistan and Uzbekistan to its later development in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Anatolia. Features an online exhibition and a gallery guide. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
- Contemporary Japanese Porcelain - Features modern interpretations of the time-honored art of porcelain. Features an online exhibition. Arthur Mr. Sackler Gallery.
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- Silver fern flag - The Silver fern flag is sometimes seen as an unofficial flag of New Zealand, in several variants. The silver fern itself is a quasi-national emblem, being used for various official symbols, including the Coat of arms of New Zealand and the New Zealand One Dollar coin.
- National Collegiate Rowing Championship - The now defunct National Collegiate Rowing Championship was a quasi-official national championship for men's collegiate rowing held in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1983 and 1996. It would pit the winners of the Eastern Sprints, the Pac-10s, the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, and the Harvard-Yale Boat Race against each other in a finals only event.
- Western Arctic New Democratic Party - Western Arctic New Democratic Party is an unofficial political party in the Northwest Territories, Canada. The party is a quasi-official offshoot of the federal New Democratic Party.
- Concubinage - Concubinage is the state of a woman or youth in an ongoing, quasi-matrimonial relationship with a man of higher social status. Typically, the man has an official wife and, in addition, one or more concubines.
- Majlis as-Shura - Majlis as-Shura, Arabic for Parliament, Advisory Council, Consultative Assembly, is a commonly used term for elected or co-opted assemblies with advisory or legislative powers in Arabic-speaking countries. It is the official Arabic name of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia (the closest thing Saudi Arabia has to a legislature), upper house of Egypt's Parliament, and the quasi-legislature of Oman.