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Easter Food Traditions: Eggs, Lamb and Hot Cross Buns

The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.

The Measure of Genius: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel at 500

Half a millennium later, the story of the painting of the Sistine Chapel is as fascinating as Michelangelo’s masterpiece itself

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Cooking With the Bible

Keefe's tribute to Bailey includes “Rocking Chair,” “I’ll Close My Eyes” and “Bluebirds in the Moonlight.”

Julia Keefe’s Jazz

The young musician discusses the joys of improvisation and her new tribute to fellow American Indian artist Mildred Bailey

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What the Heck Was Manna, Anyway?

The unknown fifth question of the Passover seder

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Lactose Tolerance and Human Evolution

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Eye Candy at a Sweet Art Exhibition

Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Grammy for his hit song "Feels So Good."

For Smithsonian, Mangione Memorabilia 'Feels So Good'

The jazz flugelhornist and composer kicks off Jazz History Month with a donation to the National Museum of American History

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The Wines of Hungary -- the Next Big Thing?

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Pass the Hoax, Please

"I still wonder why that young woman gave up her seat. It's not as if our bodies bear visible proof of our years."

Do Not Go Gentle

The feisty man's guide to aging anything but gracefully

After a year in graduate school in New York City, Eudora Welty returned to her native Mississippi and began taking pictures (Home by Dark).

Eudora Welty as Photographer

Photographs by Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Eudora Welty display the empathy that would later infuse her fiction

Using shadows and the moon, Olson determined the moment Ansel Adams photographed Autumn Moon. When conditions recurred 57 years later, Olson was ready.

Forensic Astronomer Solves Fine Arts Puzzles

Astrophysicist Don Olson breaks down the barriers between science and art by analyzing literature and paintings from the past

Ceramist Emily Rossheim uses luminescent underglazes to make her bowls shimmer.

What's Up

A juvenile tapetail in the process of becoming an adult grows a huge liver.

A Fish Tale

A curator discovers that whalefishes, bignose fishes and tapetails are all really the same kind of fish at different life stages

Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi sat down with Smithsonian magazine to discuss the upcoming exhibition "Design for a Living World."

Q and A: Isaac Mizrahi

Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi's salmon skin dress is on display in a new exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Goodman played the clarinet even "during the commercial breaks of the World Series," according to one of his daughters.

Benny Goodman's Clarinet

Late in his career, jazz musician Benny Goodman favored a Parisian “licorice stick” as his instrument of choice

The Paschall Brothers' album, "On the Right Road Now."

Odes To Joy

Bank manager Kellie Johnson says that recording the location, species and size of trees "puts things in perspective."

Bank Executives See the Forest and the Trees

In a Maryland forest, bankers trade in their suits and ties to study the environment with Smithsonian scientists

The Smithsonian online: something for everyone, no matter how esoteric their interests.

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