Temptress or icon of innocence, cult figure or cultural archetype, Leonardo’s mysterious madonna has intrigued us for 500 years
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Tucson recruits learn there’s a lot more to fighting fire than just “putting the wet stuff on the red stuff”
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“Hello Boys! Become an Erector Master Engineer!”
With no “hanky-panky gimcracks,” A. C. Gilbert’s Erector sets taught boys more than just the nuts and bolts
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At the “house of pain,” sports scientists are finding new ways to help great athletes get even better
If You’re a Bear, These Dogs Will Give You Paws
When grizzlies and black bears start hanging around people, Carrie Hunt and her feisty Karelians persuade them to go away
Holes in the canopy mean opportunity for new trees, but only if they are already waiting in the wings
Yankee Go Home — and Take Me with You!
More than 50 years after independence, Filipinos still chafe—and cheer—at the lingering legacies of U.S. colonialism
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An upcoming exhibition honors the legacy of an American artist who found freedom in Liberia
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Concerto for Pencilina and Sewer Flute
Wacky instruments often resemble bad plumbing, but all are welcome in the eclectic light orchestra of experimental music
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A Painter of Angels Became the Father of Camouflage
Turn-of-the-century artist Abbott Thayer created images of timeless beauty and a radical theory of concealing coloration
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Crazy? No, Just One Card Shy of a Full Deck
I had become what every New Yorker secretly longs to be, a harmless, amusing eccentric
You Can’t Keep a Good Prophet Down
What will be, will be. Or will it? As the millennium draws nigh, prophets want to tell us about it
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Working together, the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries are gaining distinction in Asian art
It’s pulled and jimmied, tied and lifted but the 20-ton Jupiter engine finally reaches its new home
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