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March 2000

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Scythian Gold

An exhibition of treasures from ancient Ukraine illuminates a great warrior culture, notable for its relentless ferocity and remarkable art

Two for Tea

America's only commercial tea crop is grown on an island with plants more than a century old

Mother And Daughter

Bonding through Books

A good read gives mothers and daughters much more to talk about than just the plot

The Hatfield clan in 1897

A Tale of Fatal Feuds and Futile Forensics

A Smithsonian anthropologist digs for victims of a West Virginia mob murder

Hawaii's Vanished Birds

For the National Zoological Park, an artist depicts the diversity of the islands' extinct avian species

The Tulip: The Story of the Flower That Has Made Men Mad

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