April 2000
Smithsonian magazine delivers trusted and incisive reporting on history, science, nature, culture and travel.
Features
Reading the Messages in Everyday Things
As an inspired observer of landscapes urban and rural, historian John Stilgoe teaches us all to see with new eyes
Requiem for a Middleweight
College boxer Charlie Mohr of Wisconsin was a champion in and out of the ring, but why he died remains controversial
Bone Specialist On Call
A Smithsonian anthropologist applies his expertise to cases of missing children and disaster victims
Evidence for a Flood
Sediment layers suggest that 7,500 years ago Mediterranean water roared into the Black Sea
Wanted, Dead or Alive
When scientists go scavenging at a bioblitz, anything they can find that's organic is considered fair game
The Biggest One That Didn't Get Away
A real fish tale hangs on a monster marlin caught nearly a half-century ago
