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UPDATED WITH ANSWERS: The List: An Earth Day Game of Who Am I

Now read this post carefully, because there will be a quiz at the end. Let’s begin with a history lesson

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Five Ways to Eat Matzo

Thinking outside the charoset

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On View at the Renwick: Cliff Lee Creates One-of-a-Kind Porcelain Ceramics

Porcelain artist Cliff Lee spent 17 years trying to recreate a glaze. He succeeded. Then, he lost the formula

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One Year Later: Deepwater Horizon

Tomorrow, April 20, marks the one-year anniversary of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana

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Artists File Taxes Too!

It’s that time of year, again, the deadline for filing your federal and state income tax returns

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The Curious World of Zombie Science

Zombies seem to be only growing in popularity, and I’m not talking about the biological kind

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Events: Peacock Room Reopens, Earth Day Celebrations

Monday, April 18 Peacock Room Comes to America: A new view of Whistler’s Peacock Room

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At the Portrait Galley, Private Art Collections Become Public

It is a widely held belief that in the largely political climate of Washington, D.C., more often that not, what you see is not necessarily what you get

Clepsydra Geyser at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

Gigantic Plume Beneath Yellowstone Now Even More Gigantic

The geysers of Yellowstone are a reminder of the potential danger that lies below

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Lincoln is Dead: A Collection of Artifacts at American History Mark the Tragedy

On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died from a gunshot wound he’d suffered the night at before at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C.

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