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Stories from Jeff Campagna

Evalyn McLean (c. 1914) wearing the Hope Diamond

Don’t You Wish You Could Wear the Hope Diamond?

How did such a huge rock come to be in the possession of such a party girl like Evalyn McLean

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This Thursday Make it a Movie Night at the Film Forward Festival

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Who Had the Best Civil War Facial Hair?

Browse these portraits of officers with great facial hair courtesy of the Library of Congress and then vote for your favorite

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Grazia Toderi’s Digital Visions on Display at the Hirshhorn

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Meet TOPGUN Radar Intercept Officer David “Bio” Baranek

It’s difficult to hear the phrase “TOPGUN” and not immediately have F-14 Tomcats zooming around in your brain against a rocking Kenny Loggins soundtrack

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Happy Birthday, Billie!

It’s fitting that legendary jazz songstress-extraordinaire Billie Holiday’s birthday today falls during Smithsonian’s Jazz Appreciation Month

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Those Sweethearts Got Rhythm

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On View at the Renwick: Artist Ubaldo Vitali Has Silver in the Blood

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Getting Negative With Edward Curtis

It’s extremely rare to find negatives of Edward Sheriff Curtis, the iconic photographer of Native American life and the Old West

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Smithsonian Gets Their Mitts on Gene Tunney’s Gloves

In April of 1971, at the invitation of the Chinese government, a nine-person United States table tennis team visited China for a series of exhibition matches.

Connie Sweeris, Ping-Pong Diplomat

A 1971 table tennis competition between the U.S. and China laid the groundwork for a foreign relations breakthrough

Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, better known as Semiconductor, are developing a multimedia piece about volcanologists.

Semiconductor on Volcanic Inspiration

The British performance artists discuss how their research on volcanoes will inform their newest works

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Ella Jenkins Releases Her Latest Kid’s Album, “A Life in Song”

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Rodney Snyder, Chocolate Hunter, Eats It For a Living!

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And The Sound’s Laid Down By The Underground…

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Family Pictures: Close to Home @ Smithsonian American Art Museum

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When Concorde Begins Service, Passengers Went Transatlantic in a Jiffy

The average New York City to Paris flight time was three-and-a-half hours, compared to eight hours on a commercial jet

Another Candle on Cindy Sherman’s Cake

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Bruce Lee Kicks it Old School at the Freer

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Nothing Is Hands-Free in the Hirshhorn’s New Black Box

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