Smithsonian Magazine: November 2010
Features
Resurrecting the Czar
The recent discovery of the remains of two missing Romanovs has pitted the Russian Orthodox Church against forensic science
By Joshua Hammer
Male Bonding
Bull elephants have a reputation as loners. But the author's own research shows that males live in large groups and are surprisingly sociable—until it's time to fight
By Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell
The Tell-Tale Murder
In 1830, a brutal crime in Salem riveted the nation—and inspired the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne
By E.J. Wagner
Show Time
A new exhibition spotlights the Apollo Theater's enduring role in American music and culture
By Lucinda Moore
Looking For Ghosts
To track neutrinos, some of the most elusive particles in nature, scientists go to the ends of the earth to conduct experiments in abandoned mines and Antarctic ice
By Ann Finkbeiner
How Little Bighorn Was Won
Standard accounts of the 1876 battle have focused on Custer's ill-fated 7th cavalry. Now a new book offers a blow-by-blow narrative from the Indians' point of view
By Thomas Powers
Departments
Indelible Images
On to Warsaw
As German bombs began falling on Poland in 1939, an American photographer made a fateful decision
By Mike Edwards
Wild Things
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Caterpillars, Bonobos, European Songbirds and More...
By T. A. Frail, Jesse Rhodes, Jessica Righthand, Brandon Springer and Sarah Zielinski
My Kind of Town
Twice Charmed
The Pacific Northwest city captivated the author first when she was an adventure-seeking adolescent and again as an adult
By Katherine Dunn
Around the Mall
Night at the Museum
One summer evening, scientists raced against time to complete an experiment on the Hope Diamond
By Joseph Caputo
The Object at Hand
Pacific Theater
A carved walking stick evokes PT-109 commander John F. Kennedy's dramatic rescue at sea
By Owen Edwards
The Last Page
Fluent in 60 Seconds
Learning a new language is a breeze—as long as it's Paionian
By Kevin Hodges
