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The innovative artist has devoted his life to transforming
David Douglas Duncan's Life photographs captured the courage and anguish of marines in Korea, bringing home the gravity of war
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Born 200 years ago this month, Ralph Waldo Emerson had some strange ideas about the natural world. Recent research suggests they might even be true
Even as he endured the hardships of Valley Forge, George Washington faced another challenge: critics who questioned his fitness to lead
Our unusually far-flung correspondents report
Enslaved Africans endured the largest forced migration in history
Ever since Britain carved the nation out of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the land long known as Mesopotamia has been wracked by instability
Scientists knew that alligators' jaws are covered in bumps but it took biologist Daphne Soares to figure out why
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A witness to the first ascent of Mount Everest recalls Edmund Hillary's aplomb, Tenzing Norgay's grace and other glories of the "last earthly adventure"
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Searching for the past on the eve of St. Petersburg's 300th anniversary, a former foreign correspondent finds the future
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Tiny frogs. Vast swamps. Pristine rivers. Whether by design or default, the island boasts the Caribbean's best-kept wildlands. But for how long?
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The prospect of a tourist bonanza from a Dracula theme park in Transylvania excites some Romanians, but opponents see only red
In Charleston, South Carolina, shipwrights re-create a 19th-century schooner
People say the darndest things. At least I think they do
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Laura Breitman fashions photo-realist collages out of whole cloth
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A major exhibition and a new ballet bring the renowned artist's obsession with dance center stage
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The famed writer discusses her childhood, her writing and the importance of family
A new book of photographs by octogenarian Helen Levitt charts her amused view of an ever-evolving New York
Two courageous pioneers showed how a fearsome scourge could be defeated
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