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Elvis at 21: Presley reads fan mail on March 17, 1956

Amy Henderson: The Medium is the Message

The Portrait Gallery's Cultural Historian Amy Henderson discusses the museum's vision—to tell America's stories as "visual biography"

The OEC's 3-D printer

A 3-D Printer Goes to Work for the Smithsonian

A new technology can create replicas of pretty much anything, quickly and with great detail

Experience the life cycles of stars and galaxies, such as Centaurus A galaxy, shown here, through January 2012 at the National Museum of Natural History.

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October 31, 1926: Death Proves Inescapable for Even Houdini

Magician Harry Houdini, who could seemingly escape anything, couldn't escape a punch to the gut and appendicitis

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The Black List: Photographs By Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Opens at the Portrait Gallery

Artist Guy Maccoy at work on a mural at the Brooklyn Museum as part of the WPA's Art Work for Public Buildings Project.

Archives of American Art Releases Photo Collection to Wikimedia Commons

The Smithsonian makes a big contribution to one of Wikipedia's projects

Andy Warhol's Shadows, on view in its entirety for the first time

Events Oct. 24-27: goSmithsonian Trek, Andy Warhol, Skin Color Evolution, and an Inventors Symposium

Take part in an interactive scavenger hunt, get an inside look at the Hirshhorn's newest exhibition, learn about human evolution and get tips on inventing

Henrique Oliviera's "Bololô," on display in the "Artists in Dialogue 2" exhibition.

Weekend Events Oct. 21-23: Craft2Wear, MATCH+WOOD, and Drumming Workshop

This weekend, come to a party with wearable crafts, experience the pairing of poetry and art, and participate in a drumming workshop

Kathleen Nowak Tucci crafts wearable art from bicycle and motorcycle inner tubes.

Eco-Artist Kathleen Nowak Tucci on Creating Art From Trash

The craft artist has found a clever way to recycle rubber; see her work at this weekend's Craft2Wear show and Smithsonian benefit sale

Come to Family Day at the Postal Museum

Weekend Events Oct 14-16: Latino Reading and Open Mic, Postal Museum Family Day and Henna Body Art

This weekend, attend a virtual reading of Latino literature, come to a day of activities at the Postal Museum and create your own henna design

An 1894 exhibition of automobiles at what is now the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building

The List: The Smithsonian Institution Celebrates American Archives Month

From automobiles to beards, check out some of the more unusual artifacts in the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Film still from 55 Days at Peking (1963)

The List: Top Eleven Things to Do this Month at the Smithsonian After Work

Date night at the Smithsonian, grab your special someone and head out to these after-hours events

Former Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart on the drum kit

The Mickey Hart Collection in Rhythm with the World

Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart's curates a 25-album series of world music for Smithsonian Folkways that drops next week

Shih Chieng Huang's installations are featured in an exhibit at the Natural History Museum through January 8, 2012.

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Dr. Pierre Comizzoli, one of the two Smithsonian scientists to receive the Presidential Award, at work in the lab.

Two Smithsonian Scientists Receive Presidential Award

An astrophysicist and a conservation biologist each receive one of the highest honors in science

The original penicillin mold discovered by Fleming is in the collections held at the American History Museum

The List: Medical Innovations at the Smithsonian

On the anniversary of the legendary discovery of polio, take a tour of the most significant medical inventions in history

Empress Dowager Cixi strikes a pose

The Extreme Makeover of Empress Dowager Cixi

China's Empress Dowager commissioned portraits—now on display at the Sackler Gallery—in an attempt to polish her public image

Kepler-16b, the first confirmed circumbinary planet

Inside the Double-Sun Planet Discovery

How Smithsonian and Harvard scientists discovered the planet that orbits two stars

Make sidewalk art with Murals of Baltimore and Chalk4Peace.

Weekend Events Sept 23-25: Heart and Soul, Chalk4Peace, and Nature’s Best Photography

Events in and around the Smithsonian for the upcoming weekend

Sign from the Peace Corps' first office in Ghana

Peace Corps Donates Treasure Trove to American History Museum

The landmark collection of Peace Corps artifacts donated at a ceremony this morning is more than a memento of the program's 50 years of existence

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