In A.D. 77 a workaholic called Pliny the Elder published the first encyclopedia, Natural History. Headless people were among the many marvels
As the Institution grows in size and complexity, we are proceeding to decentralize and revitalize its parts
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A book from Smithsonian's editor recounts tales of writers and wars, photographers and Presidents, and the experiences of life in journalism
The story behind the Smithsonian's display tiger leads back into tiger history, man-eating and otherwise, and back to the fact that tigers are endangered
The Camino Real, after languishing in the shadow of the Santa Fe, the Oregon and the California trails, is finally getting its due
Inside its surreal new superhotels, the city synonymous with glitz is taking fantasy to the max and creating an escapist mecca
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Was Zulueta a place of memory or of myth? When a journalist returns to his ancestral home to find out, the fireworks cast a spell
There was a time when a cane was the exclamation point to a gentleman's attire, but canes have also been put to a remarkable range of uses
Photographer O. Winston Link documented the final days of steam engines on the Norfolk and Western Railway, the last main line to use them
The child was returned thanks in large part to a national clearinghouse that employs the latest technology to locate missing kids
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Garbo, Chaplin, Keaton yesteryear's screen giants dazzle audiences anew at Pordenone, the world's most pretigious silent-film festival
He would chronicle it all the Civil War, the schoolyard games, the raging coast of Maine yet the man remained a mystery to the end
Can a weekly paper in rural New Mexico raise enough hell to keep its readers hungry for more, issue after issue? Don't ask
The National Zoo and its branch, the CRC, pioneer conservation biology and seek new ways of support
The Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex, has yet another address: the World Wide Web
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