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Smithsonian Perspectives

The Festival of American Folklife is a popular model for presenting grass-roots culture to the public

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Around the Mall & Beyond

In 1939 Moritz Schoenberger, a Hungarian Jew living in Vienna, wanted to join his family in America. His ordeal is told at the National Postal Museum

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With Computers and New Equipment, Our Once-struggling Freight Railroads Are Now the World's Best and Busiest

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Flutter by and Be Counted!

At the Fourth of July Butterfly Count, devotees census swallowtails, wood-nymphs and all their colorful kin

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Science Defined by the Hands of a Book Artist

You can't always tell a book by its cover; in fact, it may not even have a cover. These artists' books convey their message in unexpected ways

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The Object at Hand

How a snake, attended by alarums and excursions, made it from an Asian jungle to the National Zoo and so to its present berth in a Smithsonian museum

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The Toll You Pay to Enter This Eden is Sweat, Pain and Fear

Not far from Siberia, our second-largest national park is a haven for bear, moose, wolf . . . but not tourists

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The Wolcott Children's Ballet: In the Backwoods, Dancing Their Hearts Out

It's a story grounded in a real labor of love — sore muscles, hand-stitched costumes, and dreams of grace and aspirations fulfilled

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The Fiery Nadar Took Paris' Pulse

A self-styled bohemian of the mid-19th century, the young photographer captured the spirit of the time in portraits now on exhibit at the Met

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Sofonisba Anguissola: Renaissance Painter Extraordinaire

At the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., a ground-breaking exhibition has retrieved a life of true genius

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Review of 'The Last Panda'

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When Youngsters Say Things That Crack You Up, Write Them Down

When youngsters say things that crack you up, write them down

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Gifts of Remembrance at the Wall

Near the base of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, comrades and loved ones leave their poignant tokens of remembrance

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Chris Evans vs. the Southern Pacific

He's not well known today, but a century ago this unpredictable train robber and killer was sensational front-page news in California

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The Spirited Story of the Psychic and the Colonel

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The Soap Box Derby

The Soap Box Derby, a peculiarly American institution, thrives on the U.S. teenage passion for anything that has four wheels and goes fast

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For Our Nuclear Wastes, There's Gridlock on the Way to the Dump

It's not an emergency yet, but we have tons of the stuff, some of it hot, some not so hot, and nobody can agree on where to bury it

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On the Trail of the Stealth Birds of Our Wetlands

With its cunning camouflage and some mighty morphing, a bittern can be one tough bird to find —and a tough customer to boot

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Review of 'Chimpanzee Travels'

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Review of 'Doc: Then and Now with a Montana Physician'

Review of 'Doc: Then and Now with a Montana Physician'

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