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January 1998

Smithsonian magazine delivers trusted and incisive reporting on history, science, nature, culture and travel.

Features

Roll Over, Beethoven

When Paul McCartney founded the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, he created a place where aspiring stars can learn 21st-century survival skills

Stamps,— What an Idea!

New commemoratives look like our first stamps, which were slow to catch on in 1847

Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

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