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Finding Fossils Where You Don’t Expect Them

After doing some digging, author Joshua Hammer discovered an anti-mafia movement going on in Sicily and thought it would make a good Smithsonian story.

Joshua Hammer on “In Sicily, Defying the Mafia”

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People's Design Award: Pick Your Favorite

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Science Expressed in Dance

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The Making of a Tyrant

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Inviting Writing: Fondue Memories of College

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Events: Photoshop, Norman Rockwell, Remembering the Mexican Revolution and More

Invented in the late 19th century as a means to contain cattle in the American West, barbed wire soon found military applications.

Ten Inventions That Inadvertently Transformed Warfare

Some of the most pivotal battlefield innovations throughout history began as peacetime inventions

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Weekend Events: Readings, Classical Guitar and a National Zoo Fiesta

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First Pictures of the Zoo's Lion Cubs

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Royal Observatory Photography Prize

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Pretzels for Oktoberfest

Enjoy a Bavarian Brezeln!

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Happy Birthday, Harley Davidson

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Stegosaurus Week: Playing the Stegosaur Name Game

Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch

Happy 1000 Posts! Our Top 10 Posts of All-Time

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Stegosaurus Week: The Many Postures of Kentrosaurus

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A Cookbook for Geeks Brings the Scientific Method to the Kitchen

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Ants Defend Trees from Elephants

About 16 million people visited the Blue Ridge Parkway, making it the National Park Service's most popular attraction.

75 Years of the Blue Ridge Parkway

Winding its way through Appalachia, the scenic road is the result of workers and politicians who blazed the trail in the 1930s

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Wednesday Roundup: Lions, a New Game from American Art, Jump Rope and More

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