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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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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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“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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The "Library Phantom" strikes again, and transforms a copy of The Lost World into a prehistoric scene
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Best of all, science is a story with an open ending. Every discovery ends with more questions
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Researchers found that when it comes to building social networks, people much prefer someone who likes to cooperate over a person who looks out for himself
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In the 1950s, some U.S. scientists warned that, without immediate action, the Soviet Union would control the earth's thermometers
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As ugly as they were, some of Fantasia's dinosaurs were ahead of their time
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For six years, an elderly tramp toured the U.S., paying those who helped him with checks for sums of up to $900,000
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