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Don’t You Wish You Could Wear the Hope Diamond?
How did such a huge rock come to be in the possession of such a party girl like Evalyn McLean
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Who Had the Best Civil War Facial Hair?
Browse these portraits of officers with great facial hair courtesy of the Library of Congress and then vote for your favorite
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Meet TOPGUN Radar Intercept Officer David "Bio" Baranek
It’s difficult to hear the phrase “TOPGUN” and not immediately have F-14 Tomcats zooming around in your brain against a rocking Kenny Loggins soundtrack
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Happy Birthday, Billie!
It’s fitting that legendary jazz songstress-extraordinaire Billie Holiday’s birthday today falls during Smithsonian’s Jazz Appreciation Month
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Getting Negative With Edward Curtis
It’s extremely rare to find negatives of Edward Sheriff Curtis, the iconic photographer of Native American life and the Old West
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Connie Sweeris, Ping-Pong Diplomat
A 1971 table tennis competition between the U.S. and China laid the groundwork for a foreign relations breakthrough
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Semiconductor on Volcanic Inspiration
The British performance artists discuss how their research on volcanoes will inform their newest works
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When Concorde Begins Service, Passengers Went Transatlantic in a Jiffy
The average New York City to Paris flight time was three-and-a-half hours, compared to eight hours on a commercial jet
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