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For Hollywood’s Smithsonian, a Battle Trumps an Escape
In 2009, 20th-Century Fox was working on the film “Night at the Museum: Escape from the Smithsonian.” But why would anyone want to escape from the museums?
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A Skydiving Photographer Reveals Almost All, but for One Secret
Having made more than 1,000 skydives, some 600 with a camera, daredevil adventurer Andy Keech has hot-dogged it with the best of adrenaline junkies.
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Architect Tom Kundig thinks outside the box to reinvent the notion of “home”
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It’s all about baseball on Sunday, June 1 from 2 to 5 p.m., at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 801 K Street, NW, at Mount Vernon Square
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Why the Smithsonian Has a Fake Crystal Skull
The Natural History Museum’s quartz cranium highlights the epic silliness of the new Indiana Jones movie
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