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Historian Amanda Foreman discusses how British citizens took part in the war between the Union and the Confederacy
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A decade before The Lost World debuted, one science fiction writer beat Arthur Conan Doyle to the dinosaurian punch.
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Whether you love it or hate it, John Gillespie Magee's "High Flight" remains the most enduring of aviation poems
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The tale of the gingerbread man is part of a genre of folklore about goodies gone wild, specifically "The Fleeing Pancake" stories
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This week, see a critically-lauded Thai film, attend a hands-on day of aviation activities, and hear a live concert pianist perform
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The people of Byzantium viewed a lunar eclipse as a bad omen, but today it's just another time to do science
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People in the Old Country won’t touch the stuff, but immigrants to the American Midwest have celebrated it for generations
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A new exhibition combines a seminal Warhol film with a pair of modern responses
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What happens when filmmakers want to make the same film?
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The Republican senator and 1964 presidential candidate predicted the growth of the Sun Belt and envisioned an open border with Mexico
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For French-Canadians, the must-have holiday food is a spiced meat pie
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Spinops was one funky looking dinosaur, and its discovery emphasizes the role of museum collections. Who knows what else is waiting to be rediscovered?
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This holiday season, gather the family to listen to some of your favorite classics from the Folkways collection
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As in Aesop's fable, there are advantages and disadvantages for birds living in the city
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Seventy years ago, an important collection of "Peking Man" fossils disappeared in China. They are still missing today
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At a museum in Valencia, Spain, over one million toy soldiers stand at attention, prepared to reenact the wars that shaped the world
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“As a journalist working on a story about truffles, it felt like risky business. There’s a lot of cash flowing around, there’s a black market”
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The Portrait Gallery's Cultural Historian Amy Henderson discusses the sites and scenes on a walking tour of Washington, D.C.
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She was young, married and a mother. But after her husband died in battle against the Nazis, she became a secret agent for the British
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