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Painted Birds

Code Blue! Stat!

Industrial Arts

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The Iceman Dieth

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Snap Shot

Blues legend John Cephas

Blues Legend John Cephas On His Music

Piedmont-style blues guitarist John Cephas played at the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

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The American Home Front: 1941-1942

By Alistair Cooke, Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.00

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What’s Up

Playing with words, painting on plexiglass and wearing teeth

Course du BOC 2010

Guiding Lights

Owen Edwards, an old hand at writing our “Object at Hand” column, explains and how he developed a passion for motorcycle racing

"Into another realm": "Midget" Farrelly surfs the shore break off Makaha, Hawaii, in 1968.

Endless Summers

For almost 50 years, surfing legend LeRoy Grannis has been shooting the curl

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Flights of Fancy

Leslie Payne’s flying machines soared, if only in his imagination

(Shea Beebe, age 36, Converse, Texas, Photographed May 2006) Beebe took a photograph of her then-8-year-old daughter, Peyton, layered an image of a tree over it and added "gold tint to give it a more dream-like quality." Often, Beebe, who plans to pursue a photojournalism degree this fall, will look at unaltered photos "and try to imagine what they could be if I added an unusual color or layered them with another photo of mine."

Prize Pictures

Our photo contest attracted thousands of photographers from 86 nations. And the winners are…

The Sucevita Monastery was built in the last decades of the 16th century in the Moldavian style, a blend of Byzantine and Gothic art and architecture. The exterior walls' striking frescoes (above, "The Ladder of Virtues," contrasting the order of heaven with the chaos of hell) still retain their brilliant hues.

Scripture Alfresco

450-year-old paintings on the exterior of monasteries and churches-—now open again for worship-—tell vivid tales of saints and prophets, heaven and hell

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Port Uncorked

The sweet wine rejuvenates its image

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