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April 2004
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Features
Saving the Music Tree
Artists and instrument makers have banded together to rescue Brazil's imperiled pernambuco, the source of bows for violins, violas and cellos
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Remembering the Alamo
John Lee Hancock's epic re-creation of the 1836 battle between Mexican forces and Texas insurgents casts the massacre in a more historically accurate light
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And Now For Something Completely Different
"Monty Python's Flying Circus" went on to conquer America
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Vaunted Vancouver
Set between the Pacific Ocean and a coastal mountain range, the British Columbia city may be the ultimate urban playground
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Photos for All Time
A new book, At First Sight, draws on all the Smithsonian's vast archives to chart photograph's profound place in history
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Georgia at a Crossroads
From our archives: How the republic’s troubled history set the stage for future discord and a possible new Cold War
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Departments
Flower Child
A Vietnam War protester recalls a seminal '60s image, part of a new book celebrating French photographer Marc Riboud's 50-year career
Birds of a Feather
Scores of teams battle for fame and glory in the no-holds-barred World Series of Birding
Titanic Sank This Morning
An artifact from the doomed ocean liner evokes that catastrophic night in April 1912
Towering Mysteries
Who built them and why? An amateur archaeologist tries to get to the bottom of some astonishing structures in Tibet and Sichuan Province, China
Tunnel Visionary
Intrepid explorer Julia Solis finds beauty in the ruins of derelict urban structures
Colossal Ode
Without Emma Lazarus' timeless poem, Lady Liberty would be just another statue
A Task for Every Talent
Since the Smithsonian's earliest days, the help of volunteers has been essential
Off the Charts
Going where few cartographers have gone before, the expedition members hope to find a river that will carry them all the way to the Pacific Ocean