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Katrina Browne and a Ghanaian child on the ramparts of Cape Coast Castle slave fort.

A Northern Family Confronts Its Slaveholding Past

Filmmaker Katrina Browne discusses her family’s role in American slavery

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Folkways Producer Tony Schwartz, Creator of the Daisy Ad, Dies

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New Podcast Honors Inventor Art Fry, Creator of the Post-it Note

Erin Gann as Xerxes and Helen Carey as Atossa in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Aeschylus' "The Persians," a new version by Ellen McLaughlin, directed by Ethan McSweeny.

The Persians Revisited

A 2,500-year-old Greek historical play remains eerily contemporary

Leatherback Sea Turtle Returns to Texas

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A Skydiving Photographer Reveals Almost All, but for One Secret

Having made more than 1,000 skydives, some 600 with a camera, daredevil adventurer Andy Keech has hot-dogged it with the best of adrenaline junkies.

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Hirshhorn's "Summer Camp" Film Series Proves Schtick is Slick

Bottlenose Dolphin

15 Years After Dolphin-Safe Tuna, Signs of Recovery

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On the Job: Courtroom Sketch Artist

Decades of depicting defendants, witnesses and judges have given Andy Austin a unique perspective on Chicago

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Subversive Seamstress

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Candid Expression

Photographer Kevin Connolly, who was born without legs, prefers to use a skateboard rather than a wheelchair

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Interview: Eric G. Wilson

Why the pursuit of happiness naturally includes melancholy

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When Pterosaurs Stalked the Earth

Bottles of wine at the tasting event

A Tasting of the Grape, Among Other Things

An amateur wine competition in Manchester, Vt., features vintages that surprise the palate

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A Unique Frame of Mind

Architect Tom Kundig thinks outside the box to reinvent the notion of "home"

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Update: Quake-Hit Pandas; Mars Lander

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Letters to the Editor

Readers Respond to the May Issue

Pools at the Kogod Courtyard reflect the roof—and invite visitors to walk on water.

From the Castle

What a Year!

Colombian singer Carlos Vives (left, with Egidio Cuadrado at the 2007 festival) is bringing worldwide fame to the genre.

Squeeze Play

A new Smithsonian Networks Film brings alive the upbeat music of Colombia's cowboy country

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Jukebox

Love Song

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