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Time Stands Still in the Harmonious World of Vermeer

It's a must-see show at the National Gallery of Art; not since 1696 have so many of his paintings been brought together in one place

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Harmonicas Are...hooty, Wheezy, Twangy and Tooty

They're from the Old Country, but there's nothing better for American music, from blues to honky-tonk and the fans are blown away

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Smithsonian Notable Books for Children, 1995

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Sure the Piano-Violin Can Do Two Things At Once—But Can It Do Them Well?

Sure the piano-violin can do two things at once—but can it do them well?

Capitol Hill

Congress Couldn't Have Been This Bad, or Could It?

If you think things are pretty messy on Capitol Hill today, just take a look at what was going on up there a century and a half ago

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Pliny's World: All the Facts and Then Some

In A.D. 77 a workaholic called Pliny the Elder published the first encyclopedia, Natural History. Headless people were among the many marvels

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Smithsonian Perspectives

As the Institution grows in size and complexity, we are proceeding to decentralize and revitalize its parts

A Love Affair With Life & Smithsonian

An Editor's Note

A book from Smithsonian's editor recounts tales of writers and wars, photographers and Presidents, and the experiences of life in journalism

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Bringing Ancient Ways to Our Farmers' Fields

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The Object at Hand

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

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The Granddaddy of the Nation's Trails Began in Mexico

The Camino Real, after languishing in the shadow of the Santa Fe, the Oregon and the California trails, is finally getting its due

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Las Vegas Meets La-la Land

Inside its surreal new superhotels, the city synonymous with glitz is taking fantasy to the max and creating an escapist mecca

Zulueta

A Year-End Night of Magic in This Cuban Hill Town

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

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They Forced Martinis Down My Throat and Kept Me Prisoner All Night

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The Object at Hand

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

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Steam Locomotives Steal the Spotlight

Photographer O. Winston Link documented the final days of steam engines on the Norfolk and Western Railway, the last main line to use them

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I Lost a Baby, and When I Got Him Back He Was a Toddler

The child was returned thanks in large part to a national clearinghouse that employs the latest technology to locate missing kids

Scene from Broken Blossoms starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess

A Film Buff Cheers the Oldies, Calling for Silents, Please!

Garbo, Chaplin, Keaton yesteryear's screen giants dazzle audiences anew at Pordenone, the world's most pretigious silent-film festival

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Winslow Homer, the Quintessential American Artist

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

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Review of 'Scenes from the Life of a City'

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