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The details are what separate a good outfit from an amazing one. The images in the Biodiversity Heritage Library can help you make the leap
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Sexy or scary, the outfit has cast a spell on costume wearers going back many years
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After a legal tug-of-war, Hershey's secured a trademark for the structural design of their classic chocolate bar
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Politicians and parties may flip-flop but for more than 100 years, the political iconography of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant has remained unchanged
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How much drama is too much? These two famous women, who wielded power over how we dress, could have debated the subject
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With their divided toes and extreme length, these red knit wonders from an excavated Egyptian site have an otherworldly quality
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Mark Perez and his troupe of performers tour the country, using a life-sized version of the popular game to explain simple machines
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In Building Stories, cartoonist Chris Ware presents the banality of everyday life as a stunning comic epic
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From designer appliances to bigger floorplans, Americans love kitchens, just not cooking in them
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A new company called Epic Frequency turns historic audio files into artwork
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Freshkills was once the biggest landfill in the world. Today, it's the biggest park in New York City
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Before the Age of Aquarius, there was the age of administrators and their button-down rules about students' wardrobes
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How did a tire company get in the restaurant reviewing business?
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Wearing rolled stocking back then must have been akin to the liberating, punk rock feeling of wearing ripped fishnets today
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A new Web site called Art.sy recommends art based on a visitor's preference for a particular artist or artwork
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How citizens are using design interventions to shuffle social dynamics and change public space in cities
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Microbiologist Zachary Copfer has created detailed portraits of famous artists and scientists in petri dishes
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Meet Sadie Mintz, a jewelry maker who saw her handiwork on the cover of LIFE magazine
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American football may have evolved from soccer and rugby, but it turns out that the football was never truly designed, it just sort of happened
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The real stories behind some fashion fads and classics hold some surprising twists
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