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The popularity of candy canes and ribbon candy has a lot to do with 20th-century machines that sped up production
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The six-decade career of the artist and commercial designer is on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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As they rose to power, party leaders sought to redefine the holiday to suit their own political needs
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From slavery to tuberculosis, it’s been a tumultuous year of exploring our past and looking to the future
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Saint Pete, as he's known by locals in nearby Churchill, Manitoba, is an elderly polar bear who's been visiting the town for decades
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New evidence shows that Homer Cummings, who would later be FDR's attorney general, rescued an innocent man accused of murder
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Holiday editions add a much-needed dose of humor to boring journal-ese. But is entertaining readers worth the risk of misleading them?
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This remote Antarctic field station is an ice-covered arid desert, perfect for peering deep into space
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It used to be that each town kept its own time, and chaos reigned
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There is beauty and drama at every turn in the country's rugged landscapes, at its feast-laden tables, in its complex history
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The midwestern mainstay transformed commerce into a communal holiday spectacle
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A lion ventures into an area of the river that's part of a hippo bull's territory. The enraged hippo wastes no time in asserting his dominance
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Setting large piles of stuff aflame can have significant environmental and human health impacts
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Millions were killed in what was then known as East Pakistan, but Cold War geopolitics left defenseless Muslims vulnerable
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An ongoing study by Smithsonian anthropologists investigates the dramatic shifts wrought by the smart phone
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2016 wasn't all bad: Stubborn environmental problems were livened up thanks to new solutions, “gee whiz” discoveries and mysterious orbs
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A conceptual gadget called Mersiv immerses language-learners in their tongue of choice
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On December 7, 1941, an NBC radio affiliate in Honolulu made an urgent phone call to New York. In it, he begins to describe the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Earn your wings and experience a slice of aviation history from the cockpit of a historic aircraft
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