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Veterinary dentist Barron Hall was called to help a 15-year-old female western lowland gorilla who had a fractured tooth.

Q and A with Barron Hall, Veterinary Dentist

Root canals on cheetahs, lions and gorillas is just another day at the office for veterinary dentist Barron Hall

Rare correspondence—carried by a vanished courier—is one of only "two pieces of what collectors call 'interrupted mail' from the Pony Express," says Postal Museum curator Daniel Piazza.

A Rare Pony Express Artifact

A letter that took two years to reach its destination evokes the hazards of the Pony Express

G. Wayne Clough became the first Smithsonian Secretary to travel to Antarctica.

Antarctica!

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Sea Pie and Dandy Funk

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Give Sardines a Chance

Sardines seem to be so trendy these days

Portrait of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain from 1867.

Mark Twain’s “My Platonic Sweetheart”

In an essay published posthumously in 1912, Mark Twain recounts his dreams of a long-lost love

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Snacks for Tax Day

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