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Or maybe not. America's most grueling adult tricycle competition is tough on riders and equipment alike
Armed with easel, palette and pencil, George Catlin went west in the 1830s to paint the real "Wild West"
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For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals
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This wise Virginian was a friend to four future presidents, yet he refused to sign the Constitution
Mathematicians have sliced, and now supercomputers have crunched, but the mystery of pi goes on and on and...
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Long considered black devils with wings, these bats today are stealing hearts – and mangoes – across Australia
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Three Smithsonian astronomers run a worldwide news service about what is happening overhead
A new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art showcases the Eternal City as the artistic and cultural capital of 18th-century Europe
The first modern war correspondent, Richard Harding Davis covered the first modern wars
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Across our fields, orchards and backyard gardens, the pollinators we rely on for the food we eat are facing threats on many fronts
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A Smithsonian anthropologist applies his expertise to cases of missing children and disaster victims
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Sediment layers suggest that 7,500 years ago Mediterranean water roared into the Black Sea
When scientists go scavenging at a bioblitz, anything they can find that's organic is considered fair game
A real fish tale hangs on a monster marlin caught nearly a half-century ago
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After surviving a civil war, the city is once again a mecca for artists, a landscape covered with architecture and a wonderland of discoveries
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