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She entered the brothel business without apology and set out to become the best madam in America
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The best spots to see space shuttle Discovery's descent to Dulles Airport
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Abalone divers die of exhaustion, heart attacks, or becoming entangled in kelp. The fear of being eaten by a great white shark is persistent and haunting
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Filmmaker Greg MacGillivray discusses imminent changes to the IMAX format
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The tuber that gave its name to the heroine of the Hunger Games books has its roots in an era when European explorers met native Americans
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Might there be advanced, hyper-intelligent dinosaurs on other planets?
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The IMAX cameras used to capture dozens of NASA missions are now part of the Air and Space Museum's collections
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The future is looking brighter for the cliffside Italian villages ravaged by last fall's rains
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Homo helmei is one of several obscure species of our own genus that are represented by a few fossils that don’t fit neatly into existing hominid species
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Famous footwear of the Smithsonian collections, from Chinese foot-binding booties to Dorothy's ruby slippers
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Does beaning in baseball represent an ethical holdover from our earlier days of family feuds and a culture of honor?
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Though it never actually existed, Brontosaurus is an icon of just how much dinosaurs have changed during the past century
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Pawpaws are scarcely cultivated and even more rarely sold in markets, so pack a machete and a fruit bowl and get thee to the backwoods of Kentucky
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Two portraits of Fred Korematsu, the face of the Japanese American internment of World War II, have been donated to the National Portrait Gallery
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The Dalai Lama is one of the world's most revered religious leaders, but that didn't prevent four holders of the office from mysteriously dying
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Inspired by the Sriracha Flamethrower Grizzly, a look back at some of the great icons of food branding
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In the 1920s, a French inventor devised an ingenious way to provide emergency medical assistance
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Whether it's tiny robots swimming inside our bodies or super-efficient 3D solar panels, nature never stops providing answers
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The French botanist named 6,700 species in a manic quest for fame. But did his taste for wild foods do him in?
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In confirming the sex of one of the most iconic hominid fossils, researchers are helping explain the great physical diversity in Australopithecus africanus
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