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A primer on where the documentary got its start and how the film genre gets its funding
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The inventor of one of the first ready-to-eat breakfast cereals was also an accidental historian
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A curator tells of 19th-century American socialites, who like Cora Crowley, found noble husbands and flushed Britain with cash
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One explosion raised a barn roof several feet in the air and blew the hog farmer 30 or 40 feet from the door
"The Art of Video Games" opens at the American Art Museum with a weekend packed with gaming, panels, and performances
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The reader is correct that Trixie is technically a "real, live dinosaur"
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With video screens and remote control arms, any doctor could make a virtual housecall
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How a disappointing dessert becomes an object lesson on simplicity and pleasure
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"Don't talk to me about X-rays," Edison said after an assistant on one of his X-ray projects started showing signs of illness. "I am afraid of them."
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North American camels went extinct at the end of the last ice age. Were humans partly to blame?
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Video games may be the art medium of the 21st century, but they're also an advertising medium. Here are five notable games that promoted foods
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Prior to the 1925 debut of The Lost World, the novelist pulled a stunt to make people think dinosaurs might still be alive in a distant jungle
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When filming for a 1924 silent Western was finished, the crew members abandoned several of their extras
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Have you heard the one about the crowd of hungry miners looking for a meal in Chinatown?
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Rare footage shows how paleontologist R.T. Bird diverted a river to excavate a set of Texas dinosaur tracks in 1938
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"Once a girl scout, always a girl scout" is the defining motto of an exhibition devoted to the founder of the organization
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The buzz at the SXSW conference this year is about mobile apps that tell you when there are people nearby you really should meet
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This week, discuss the varying views on public murals, take a 3-D journey of the world's coral reefs, and perform a People's Dance with Thirza Defoe
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What is it we look for over mountains and across oceans? Answer our survey and we'll publish responses in the May issue of Smithsonian
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