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New Horned Dinosaurs From America’s Lost Continent

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Catch Dengue Fever at the Freer on Friday

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Julia Child and the Primordial Soup

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Giving Thanks at Sukkot

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Zoo Receives Award for Efforts in Breeding Kori Bustards

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Pheon Launches at American Art Museum

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Dinosaur Drive-In: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

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Classic Irish Soda Bread

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Finding Fossils Where You Don’t Expect Them

After doing some digging, author Joshua Hammer discovered an anti-mafia movement going on in Sicily and thought it would make a good Smithsonian story.

Joshua Hammer on “In Sicily, Defying the Mafia”

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People’s Design Award: Pick Your Favorite

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Science Expressed in Dance

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The Making of a Tyrant

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Inviting Writing: Fondue Memories of College

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Events: Photoshop, Norman Rockwell, Remembering the Mexican Revolution and More

Invented in the late 19th century as a means to contain cattle in the American West, barbed wire soon found military applications.

Ten Inventions That Inadvertently Transformed Warfare

Some of the most pivotal battlefield innovations throughout history began as peacetime inventions

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Weekend Events: Readings, Classical Guitar and a National Zoo Fiesta

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First Pictures of the Zoo’s Lion Cubs

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Royal Observatory Photography Prize

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Pretzels for Oktoberfest

Enjoy a Bavarian Brezeln!

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