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When War Called, Davis Answered

The first modern war correspondent, Richard Harding Davis covered the first modern wars

Catacombs of Paris

Empire of the Dead

Birds, Bees and Even Nectar-feeding Bats Do It

Across our fields, orchards and backyard gardens, the pollinators we rely on for the food we eat are facing threats on many fronts

Bone Specialist On Call

A Smithsonian anthropologist applies his expertise to cases of missing children and disaster victims

This SeaWiFS view reveals the colourful interplay of currents on the sea's surface

Evidence for a Flood

Sediment layers suggest that 7,500 years ago Mediterranean water roared into the Black Sea

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Wanted, Dead or Alive

When scientists go scavenging at a bioblitz, anything they can find that’s organic is considered fair game

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The Biggest One That Didn’t Get Away

A real fish tale hangs on a monster marlin caught nearly a half-century ago

Beirut city skyline in the early 2000s

Beirut Rises from the Ashes

After surviving a civil war, the city is once again a mecca for artists, a landscape covered with architecture and a wonderland of discoveries

Jeweler Harry Winston donated the famous Hope Diamond—the largest-known deep blue diamond in the world—to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958. It arrived in a plain brown package by registered mail, insured for one million dollars. Surrounded by 16 white pear-shaped and cushion-cut diamonds and hanging from a chain with 45 diamonds, the rare gem attracts 6 million visitors a year to the Natural History Museum.

The Hope Diamond

MASS MoCA

A Unique Home for Cutting-edge Art

MASS MoCA, the nation’s newest and largest center for the contemporary arts, has brought a blue-collar New England town back to the future

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Two for Tea

America’s only commercial tea crop is grown on an island with plants more than a century old

Bonding through Books

A good read gives mothers and daughters much more to talk about than just the plot

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In Praise of Pianos…

A Noble and Absurd Undertaking

The Federal Writers’ Project gave Depression-era writers a second chance…and America its first comprehensive self-portrait

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Myles and Me

The author, who according to family legend is a direct descendant of Myles Standish, surveys the checkered career of his pugnacious Pilgrim ancestor

The Hatfield clan in 1897

A Tale of Fatal Feuds and Futile Forensics

A Smithsonian anthropologist digs for victims of a West Virginia mob murder

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