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In Lisbon's Rossio Square, Pistolesi's computer-aided stitching together of 12 distinct images yields one, he says, that is "like a painting."

Circling Squares

A 360-degree perspective on some of Europe’s most alluring public spaces

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Next Stop, Squalor

Is poverty tourism “poorism,” they call it exploration or exploitation?

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Highlights & Hotspots

Some of this year’s noteworthy European events

Several dozen companies, such as Manhattan Rickshaw, operate in the United States.

Rickshaws Reinvented

The ancient transportation takes a modern turn

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Letters

Readers Respond to the January Issue

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Picture taken by Hubble

Dwarf Galaxies Caught Speeding

Milky Way Revised

Ten Days, 1973

Q and A: James Rosenquist

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Lads Without Plaids

Kiltless in Scotland: An Action Plan

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Operatic Entrance

As Paris feted Queen Elizabeth II, photographer Bert Hardy found a circumstance to match her pomp

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Comic Phyllis Diller’s Cabinet Keeps the Jokes Coming

The stand up comic’s archive holds a lifetime of proven punch lines

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What’s Up

Visual music, Macbeth and people wearing hats

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Writer Turned Scientist

In this interview, Mary K. Miller, author of “Reading Between the Lines,” describes becoming a shift supervisor in the lab

Many artists throughout history, including Van Gogh, Cellini, and Michelangelo, have led lives worthy of tabloid headlines.

Artists Behaving Badly

Temperamental masters of the art world

"War Thoughts at Home" is only one small part of a much larger research project, says Stilling.

Frost Bite

A recently discovered poem by Robert Frost has brought fame—and controversy—to an English student

At a time when women were defined by their husbands and judged by the quality of their housework, Margaret Bourke-White set the standard for photojournalism and expanded the possibilities of being female. (Self-Portrait, 1943, Margaret Bourke-White, 19 1/8" x 15 1/4" Vintage gelatin silver print from the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection)

A Life Less Ordinary

One of Life magazine’s original four photographers, Margaret Bourke-White snapped shots around the world

Francine Prose

Against the Grain

Rebels by any name

Smithson (in 1816 portrait) was viewed as a dejected recluse.

A Man in Full

A new biography depicts benefactor James Smithson as an exuberant, progressive man enamored of science

The Amazon loses 8,800 acres a day to "This army does not retreat," Gen. George H. Thomas famously asserted. Later in 1863, he rallied Union troops in the Battle of Chickamauga, in Georgia. His equanimity shows in a Civil War portrait, as it did in the heat of combat.

The Civil War

Catching Up With “Old Slow Trot”

Stubborn and deliberate, General George Henry Thomas was one of the Union’s most brilliant strategists. So why was he cheated by history?

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March Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

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The Forgotten General

Historians’ perspectives on George H. Thomas

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