The License Commission has three general choices in front of it. It can deny the UCIâs request and allow the team to keep its license. It can revoke the first-division Pro Team license but allow the team to re-apply for a second-division Pro Continental license. Or it could revoke the license altogether, a kind of institutional death penalty.
James Smithson (1765â1829) was a wealthy English scientist who devoted his life to research. That establishment became the Smithsonian. Smithson's bones now lie in the Smithsonian Castle. Originally they were buried in a cemetery in Italy.
James Smithson: Founder of the Smithsonian Institution. James Smithson (c. 1765-1829), founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, was born in 1765 in France with the name James Lewis Macie. The illegitimate son of Elizabeth Hungerford Keate Macie and Hugh Smithson, 1st Duke of Northumberland, he changed his name as well as his citizenship, becoming a naturalized British citizen around the age of ten.