Tales of pirates, diplomacy and espionage frame America's liaison with the exotic city
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Renowned as the Uncrowned Queen of Iraq, Gertrude Bell was once the most powerful woman in the British Empire
In the Spanish Civil War, as a horrified world watched, the future of Europe seemed at stake
Or how a mustachioed Barcelona artist foiled an elaborate plot to spirit Catalonia's priceless Romanesque paintings away from their homeland
When a ballpoint pen czar and a hotshot pilot went looking for the world's tallest peak, all they found was trouble
As philanthropy ebbs, the Smithsonian Council advises prudence in our search for corporate sponsorship
In 1839, African freemen, seized as slaves, struck a daring blow for freedom
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Sound half-baked? Not to Bill Ury, coauthor of the "negotiator's bible," as he mediates a peace talk between the Russians and the Chechens
The Austrian mountain climber escaped from a prison camp in 1944, slipped into forbidden Tibet, tutored the Dalai Lama and wrote a famous book
How two brothers in an old Curtiss Robin set a record that's stood for 62 years
Both Audubon and Linnaeus were indebted to this intrepid British limner of the New World
Spain wants Gibraltar; the people of the Rock hate the very idea; England is caught in the middle
Across time and distance, these colorful emblems fluttering in the breeze are symbols steeped in our history and our cultures
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