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Custom in the Ottoman Empire mandated that a condemned grand vizier could save his neck if he won a sprint against his executioner
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On an international tour, a Volkswagen Beetle makes a stop at the National Museum of American Indian
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Six generations of Mohawk Indian ironworkers have made the job their own, the cherry blossoms are out and Paoletti signs her book on color gendering
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The Kenneth Lonergan film that many critics hailed as one of the best of 2011 has had a long journey to the theaters. It opens in New York tomorrow
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The images convey invisible or purposely obfuscated ideas related to food, explained by the experts themselves
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After nearly a century, a mystery is solved and a skull has been matched to its skeleton
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Sculptor Kevin Hockley unveils his fearsome replica of Titanoboa
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Carl Zimmer asks the evolutionary biologist about the theories in his high-profile new book
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The world's most notorious lover lived in Prague at the same time as the composer, but the mystery remains: did they collaborate on a famous opera?
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What are the best restaurants for authentic Basque cuisine?
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Neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel explores the flourishing of culture in Vienna
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A 1981 book predicted that the soldiers of the future could be more like heavily armed policemen than a fighting force
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For Women's History Month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives crowdsources the identification of unknown figures in decades-old portraits
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His 20-volume masterwork was hailed as "the most ambitious enterprise in publishing since the production of the King James Bible"
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How do scientists know how many wolves are out there? Listen to how they howl, and then count how many wolves howl back
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Fossils discovered in China may belong to a new species of hominid or they may be evidence that modern humans were more diverse thousands of years ago
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A film-in-progress imagines a future in which cowboys ride dinosaurs
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Archaeologists may have found the earliest examples of human skull cups
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How a shoe designed to address male inadequacy has become a symbol of female fashion sense
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With new leads on where she may have landed, the mystery and her legacy continue
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