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Make an Offering to Mami Wata Before Time Runs Out

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How to Toast Hemingway’s 110th Birthday

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Return to the Land That Time Forgot

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Darwin for Dads and More Science Finds in the August Issue

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Apollo Astronauts Push for Mission to Mars

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Smithsonian Botanist Writes Memoir About Myanmar Travels

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The Recession is Making You Fatter

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Smithsonian Events for the Week of July 20-24: Apollo 11, Shadow Puppets, Ipswich House

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Moon Landing Video Restored

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Nothronychus Raises Questions About Dino Diet

Galileo Galilei invented the geometric and military compass. It was his first commercial scientific instrument.

Galileo’s Instruments of Discovery

With these various instruments, Galileo Galilei was able to look into space and change our view of the universe.

Over the decades, archaeologists have turned up a great many artifacts from the Indus civilization, including stamp sealings, amulets and small tablets.

Can Computers Decipher a 5,000-Year-Old Language?

A computer scientist is helping to uncover the secrets of the inscribed symbols of the Indus

Jack LaLanne (1914 - 2011)

Bodybuilders Through the Ages

Over the past 150 years, bodybuilders have gone from circus sideshows to celebrities, imparting fitness lessons along the way

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The Legacy of Apollo

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Weekend Events: The Simpsons, Special Exhibitions and a Little Bit O’ Soul

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Terrible Terroir

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Picture of the Week—Apollo 11 Solar Wind Composition Experiment

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Dinosaur Capital of the World, Continued: Drumheller, Alberta Bites Back

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Smithsonian Caption Writing Contest #5: Glass Slipper Fitting Team

There are 50 to 70 reported shark attacks on humans each year, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Stopping Sharks by Blasting Their Senses

Chemist and businessman Eric Stroud develops shark repellents to protect sharks from being ensnared in commercial fisheries

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