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Mary Anning, an Amazing Fossil Hunter

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Finding Art Fakes through Computer Analysis

Woody Guthrie was never known as a lyrical provocateur but he wrote about everything from A to Z.

Woody Guthrie’s Music Lives On

More than 40 years after the celebrated folk singer’s death, a trove of 3,000 unrecorded songs is inspiring musicians to lay new tracks

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Top 10 Things to Do at the Smithsonian in 2010

An opened pomegranate

Five Ways to Eat Pomegranates

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Advice for Tarantula Owners: Wear Goggles

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Get a Handle on Dinosaur Chopsticks

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Weekday Events: Muhammad Ali, Elvis and Video Artist John Gerrard

Last December, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, a film based on a never-before-produced screenplay by Tennessee Williams opened in theaters.

A Forgotten Tennessee Williams Work Now a Motion Picture

Written in the 1950s, “The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond” was forgotten until it was recently adapted into a major motion picture

In 1972, with assistance from an art teacher, 11 men formed a cooperative called Papunya Tula Artists. By 1974 the group had grown to 40.

Contemporary Aboriginal Art

Rare artworks from an unsurpassed collection evoke the inner lives and secret rites of Australia’s indigenous people

The city, in all its brooding grandeur, takes center stage in stories featuring the master of deduction.

Sherlock Holmes’ London

As the detective stalks movie theaters, our reporter tracks down the favorite haunts of Arthur Conan Doyle and his famous sleuth

Almira Buffalo Bone Jackson (in 1994) once said that she would "dream the colors [of quilts] at night."

A Spectacular Collection of Native American Quilts

Tribes from the Great Plains used quilts as both a practical replacement of buffalo robes and a storytelling device

Photographer Martin Schoeller's work was recently on display at the National Portrait Gallery.

Martin Schoeller’s Signature Style

Known for his photographs of celebrities and politicians, the artist doesn’t put his portrait subjects on a pedestal

The Lunar Electric Rover is a prototype for the vehicle that NASA hopes to send with astronauts to the moon by 2020.

NASA’s New Lunar Rover

The Smithsonian Institution pitches in to help NASA prepare for its next lunar mission with a new “home on wheels”

Artist Yinka Shonibare's Headless Man Trying to Drink sculpture alludes to the growing shortage of potable water worldwide.

What’s Up

The homeowners association is thought to be a moder phenomenon, but a recent archaeological excavation near England suggests otherwise.

Ancient Homeowner Association Rules

What if these meticulously planned communities are not just a modern phenomenon?

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Letters

Readers Respond to the November Issue

Otto Wolf readies meats for the smoker at the Glasbrenner Butchery, a shop near Stuttgart owned by one of a dwindling number of master butchers in Germany.

For German Butchers, a Wurst Case Scenario

As Germans turn to American-style supermarkets, the local butcher—a fixture in their sausage-happy culture—is packing it in

An 1868 surgery kit, part of Harvard's Warren Anatomical Museum.

Highlights From the Warren Anatomical Museum

The collections inside this museum hold intriguing objects that tell the story of 19th century American medicine

Britain's leaders made a miscalculation when they assumed that resistance from the colonies, as the Earl of Dartmouth predicted, could not be "very formidable."

Myths of the American Revolution

A noted historian debunks the conventional wisdom about America’s War of Independence

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