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Things Are Looking Up for Niger’s Wild Giraffes
In desolate Niger, wild giraffes are making a comeback despite having to compete for resources with some of the world's poorest people
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Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?
Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization
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One Man's Korean War
Reporter John Rich's color photographs, seen for the first time after more than half a century, offer a vivid glimpse of the "forgotten" conflict
History & Archaeology
Star-Spangled Banner Days
The flag that Francis Scott Key saw flying over Fort McHenry was loved almost to death. Now, after a decade's conservation, the Star-Spangled Banner returns to its place of honor on the National Mall
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Robert Frank’s
Curious Perspective
In his book The Americans, Robert Frank changed photography. Fifty years on, it still unsettles
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California Academy of Sciences: Greening a Higher Ground
San Francisco's new science museum hosts its own rooftop ecosystem
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Wild Things:
Life as We Know It
Learn more about bats' barotrauma, fallow deer, Tahitian vanilla, lucky dinosaurs
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American History Museum: Pieces of Our Past
Smithsonian curators probe the meanings of telltale objects
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Q&A: Wanda Jackson
In the 1950s, Wanda Jackson was one of the first women to record rock 'n' roll.
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In Politics, Just Follow
the Signs
Politicians made more sense when they relied on oracles and omens says Joe Queenan
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Roy Lichtenstein:
Making History
A well-known sculpture works its way back from 9/11 damage
Arts & Culture
What’s Up From the Smithsonian
Photographic keepsakes, garden paintings from the maharajahs and Fritz Scholder’s Indian identity on canvas
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How to Be a Snoop
The way you arrange your home or office may reveal surprising results
History & Archaeology
The Financial Panic of 1907: Running from History
Just over 100 years ago, Americans panicked as brokerage firms went bankrupt and investors pulled their money out of banks, instigating a nation-wide crisis
History & Archaeology
Montpelier and the Legacy of James Madison
The recently restored Virginia estate of James Madison was home to a founding father and the ideals that shaped a nation
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Henry VIII (1491-1547) had six wives, two of whom he divorced. Who are the two that he divorced?
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Star-Spangled Salute
Re-enactors relive the Battle of Baltimore
One Life: The Mask of Lincoln
National Portrait Gallery historian David C. Ward discusses images of Abraham Lincoln
Fallow Groan
Watch a fallow buck groan
Fishermen's Fate
In the town of Fort Bragg, California, fishermen scramble to make a living
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The Phoenix Islands provide an unspoiled center for marine science
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Wonders of the Deep
The National Museum of Natural History's Sant Ocean Hall illuminates the murky waters of the deep blue sea
Dinosaur Dispatch
Follow a paleontology team as their dinosaur dig gets underway in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin
Excavation at Stonehenge
Two renowned Stonehenge academics share stories from their archaeological dig at the ancient site
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