Articles

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Paderewski's Piano

When Polish pianist Ignace Paderewski toured America, he became a celebrity—and boosted Steinway

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Review of 'Rocket Boys: A Memoir'

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Review of 'One Round River: The Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot'

Tab Hunter from the trailer for the film Damn Yankees

Anyone Having Trouble Hitting the Notes?

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Looking Back and Ahead

With regret but a legacy of accomplishment, the Secretary plans to leave the Smithsonian in December

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Tracking America's First Dogs

Carolina dogs, discovered in the Southeast woods, may provide clues to the primitive dogs that arrived with the first humans in America

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Mining for Meteorites

As prices skyrocket, gonzo collectors are combing the globe for these celestial fragments—and riling researchers

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You Will Feel No Pain

Doctors and patients swear hypnosis works, but after years of research we still don't know how

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When Clock Birds Sing

Caution: Unexpected birdsong can cause flashbacks that lift the listener out of time and place

"Lay It Up!"

Curling is chess on ice, with broomsticks

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John Singer Sargent

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Pictures of a Tragedy

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Review of 'Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land and Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest'

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Polly Wants a Porter

Bar Codes: Reading Between the Lines

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Saving Our Treasures

A devoted keeper of the past, the National Museum of American History looks ahead to the Millennium

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Conveying History Through Song

Bernice Johnson Reagon adds cultural nuance and period flavor to rousing a cappella renditions

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Forget Y2K!

Equinox seen from the astronomic calendar of Pizzo Vento at Fondachelli Fantina, Sicily

Calendar

It took two millennia to get the one we now use; we owe a lot to the sun and moon, to Caesar, Pope Gregory and, oh yes, the Earl of Chesterfield

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To Save a Falcon

An American biologist treks the steppes and the Gobi to rescue a Mongolian raptor that's in deep trouble

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