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Interview with John Seidensticker and Susan Lumpkin

The authors of "Building an Arc" talk about wildlife conservation and what drew them to work with tigers.

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The Strawberry with "Wicked Wiles"

David Chelf, a former physicist who shifted gears into horticulture, launched a venture in 2003 to grow large quantities of Mara des Bois strawberries

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Al Gore Discusses "An Inconvenient Truth"

Environmentalist Al Gore talks about his new movie

The Sun Also Rises, San Fermin kicks off July 6 with a crush of red, white and happy revelers.

Pamplona: No Bull

Forget Hemingway's bovine madness: this charming medieval town hosts the most misunderstood public party in the world - the festival of Sam Fermin

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Interview with Erla Zwingle, Author of "Pamplona: No Bull"

Erla Zwingle talks about local festivals and her impressions of the city of Pamplona.

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What's Up

"Zobop," Folklife, and Sea Lions

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What's Up

Orchids, Ice Floes and Kids with Cameras

Artist Andrew Wyeth at the age of 66

Wyeth's World

In the wake of his death, controversy still surrounds painter Andrew Wyeth's stature as a major American artist

Joe Booth -- livestock salesman in 1984 and lumberyard worker in 2005.

Time and Again

In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph everyone in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he's doing it again, creating a portrait of heartland America

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Land of the Wee

Where else can you decorate the bordello and exercise godlike powers?

Coal Miner's Daughter

"I'm 15. I'm getting married. My mother doesn't want me to get married." But that's just the beginning of the story

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Interview: David Roberts, Author of "Below the Rim"

Author David Roberts talks about what he found surprising while exploring the Grand Canyon.

The Libeskind-designed Jewish Museum Berlin

Jewish Museum Berlin

Architect Daniel Libeskind's zinc lightning bolt of a building is one of the most revolutionary structures built since the war in Germany or anywhere

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Interview on the Legacy of Andrew Wyeth

Henry Adams, author of "Wyeth's World," speaks with the artist about his early work, influences and technique

After the shooting at Ford's Theatre, sentiments ran high, both for the slain president and against the actor who had killed him (on whose likeness a War Department telegraph operator wrote out his thoughts).

An Assassin's Final Hours

John Wilkes Booth, cornered in a Virginia barn, wanted to go down fighting: "I have too great a soul to die like a criminal"

The Shamans' Gallery, a rock art panel that stretches across 60 feet of sandstone in a side canyon, displays an array of humanlike figures. One expert dates it to 1000 B.C. and believes it embodies the visions of unknown religious seers.

Below the Rim

Humans have roamed the Grand Canyon for more than 8,000 years. But the chasm is only slowly yielding clues to the ancient peoples who lived below the rim

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Ruins and Secrets

Probing the Grand Canyon's mysterious prehistory

Vision of St Maria Magdalena di Pazzi from the Museo de Bellas Artes, Granada

Ask Smithsonian

Who Was Mary Magdalene?

From the writing of the New Testament to the filming of The Da Vinci Code, her image has been repeatedly conscripted, contorted and contradicted

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Today In History

Daily anniversaries for the month of June

The product of a ten-year Sino-American conservation effort, the cub may help scientists reestablish the endangered giant pandas in the wild, where about 1,600 are believed to exist.

Learning from Tai Shan

The giant panda born at Washington, D.C.'s National Zoo has charmed animal lovers. Now he's teaching scientists more than they had expected

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