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Japan Honors the Creator of the California Roll

Some may see it as an affront against sushi, others see an ambassador for culture

An illustration of the Tate Modern's new Switch House expansion.

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The Expanded Tate Modern Opens Its Doors Friday

The museum is being called the UK’s most important new cultural building since the British Library

Tolkien relied on maps to write his books—and cared a lot about how his fans saw Middle-earth.

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One Day Only: A Chance to View One Map to Rule Them All

A rare Tolkien-annotated map goes on display June 23

Net Neutrality is safe...for now.

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Net Neutrality Was Just Upheld in the U.S. Court of Appeals

It’s a victory for open internet activists—but will it stick?

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This New York Project Wants You to Write on the Walls

Writing On It All gives voice—and a pen—to one and all

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One of the World’s Most Colorful Places Is in Taiwan

Rainbow Family Village shows there’s nothing a man with a paintbrush can’t do

Scene from All is Lost, a 1923 film identified at the Library of Congress's Mostly Lost Film Festival

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The Library of Congress Needs Your Help to Identify These Silent Movies

For the fifth year, the “Mostly Lost” film festival calls on its audience to help identify obscure details in movie-making history

Some of Uber den Tellerrand's volunteers teaching a cooking class.

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Refugees Are Teaching Germans How to Cook Their Traditional Foods

Cooking classes are bridging the gaps between Germans and Middle Eastern refugees

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‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda Joins the War Against Bots

Ticket-buying bots are snatching up seats and jacking up the price of concert and theater tickets

A classic Parisian newsstand on Rue St. Germain.

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Parisians Are in an Uproar Over Their New Newstands

Paris’ iconic kiosks are being updated and replaced

"Sting Like a Bee"
Muhammad Ali, 1979
Serigraph

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Artwork by Muhammad Ali Is Going up For Auction

You could own a painting by the Louisville Lip

One of the destroyed handprints.

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Vandals Destroyed 8,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Artworks in Tasmania

The priceless rock art is damaged beyond repair

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Last Known 9/11 Search-and-Rescue Dog Dies

Bretagne was the last surviving dog from the 300 that worked at the World Trade Center site

Paul Amotun Lokoro and Anjelina Nadai Lohalith of South Sudan, part of the Olympic's first team of refugees

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Olympics Allows Refugees to Compete on Their Own Team

Ten refugee-athletes from Syria, Sudan, Ethiopia and the Republic of Congo will compete at the Rio Olympics

The cover to one of A-No.1's books about his life as a hobo.

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After a Century, an Anthropologist Picked up the Trail of the “Hobo King”

One hundred-year-old graffiti by “A-No.1” and others were found by the L.A. River

Money tossed into a fountain at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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What Happens to the Coins Tossed Into Fountains?

All that money has to go somewhere

La Cité du Vin.

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Bordeaux’s New Wine Museum Is Open for Business

The “City of Wine” is a vino lover’s amusement park

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This Museum Made Art Out of a John Deere Harvester

‘Continuous Service Altered Daily’ finds life inside a familiar machine

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A Brief History of General Tso’s Chicken

From haute cuisine to takeout

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