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Austin Is Looking for Its First Artist-in-Residence

Winning artists will be embeded in city agencies to help bring in new eyes to reconsider old problems

Now, writers can find inspiration in the historic library of one of America's most famous authors.

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You Can Write Inside Mark Twain’s Library

Commune with Clemens in his historic home

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A Physicist Figured Out the Best Way to Get Ketchup Out of the Bottle

Tapping the “57” has nothing to do with it

Illustration of the hyolith Haplophrentis

New Research

Tiny Cone-Shaped Creature Gets a Twig on the Tree of Life

Hyoliths have confused scientists for 175 years, but researchers have finally worked out a few of their close relatives

Spent shell casings pile up as a soldier fires his weapon during a U.S. Army weapons qualification.

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Department of Defense Calls for Biodegradable, Seed-Planting Ammo

These seed bombs could make Army training easier on the environment

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New Hubble Image Captures the Collision of Two Galaxies

A beautiful look at a violent event

A plaque outside of the Rosslyn, VA garage where the informant code-named "Deep Throat" met with journalist Bob Woodward during the Watergate investigation.

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The Parking Garage Where Deep Throat Spilled the Beans on Watergate Is Being Torn Down

Demolition is scheduled for early this year

Members of an anti-flirt club

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New York State Once Introduced an Anti-Flirting Bill

The law aimed to crack down on public displays of affection of all kinds

Whiskey? Check. Man bun? Check. Presidential presence? Check.

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In This New Portrait, George Washington Trades His Curls for a Man Bun

The first president turns hipster at a new D.C. restaurant

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Tens of Thousands of Plastic Eggs Washed Up on a German Beach

It was an eggstravaganza

The Titanic leaving Belfast on April 2, 1912. The black streak can be seen just above the water line.

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A Coal Fire May Have Helped Sink the ‘Titanic’

A new documentary claims the Titanic’s hull was weakened before it struck an iceberg

Mikhael A. Menshikov, new Soviet ambassador, outside White House, going to visit with President Eisenhower

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How Adlai Stevenson Stopped Russian Interference in the 1960 Election

The Soviets offered the former presidential candidate propaganda support if he ran in 1960, an offer he politely declined

Refugees wait for water at a camp in Delhi. The partition of India put millions on the move.

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After Nearly 70 Years, the India-Pakistan Partition Gets a Museum

The Partition Museum is unrelenting in its portrayal of a brutal era

J. Calvin Coffey holds up a model of the mesentery

New Research

Meet Your Newest Organ: The Mesentery

Scientists are calling for an upgrade in classification of this vital gut membrane

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a specially engraved fiver could bestow fortune upon four lucky Brits.

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Strike It Rich (Without Marrying for Money) by Finding Hidden Jane Austen Art

A British artist has sparked a nationwide scavenger hunt for £5 notes worth thousands

Scanned collage (1919) by Hans Arp

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One of the World’s Largest Dada Collections Can Now Be Viewed Online

The freewheeling art movement didn’t lend itself to posterity

The first-known photograph of the White House, by John Plumbe, Jr.

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The First-Known Photograph of the White House Was Taken by an Immigrant

John Plumbe, Jr. was one of America’s first rockstar photographers

An unidentified Hanna-Barbera Productions painter works on an animation cel of Fred Flintstone. THE FLINTSTONES and all related characters and elements © & ™ Hanna-Barbera. (s16)

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Meet the Men Behind Saturday Morning’s Most Memorable Cartoons

Zoinks! Hanna-Barbera once dominated kids’ Saturday schedules

Decoder glasses help visitors view both utopian and dystopian angles to the exhibition

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This Art Show Looks at 500 Years of Failed Utopias

So far, the ideal has yet to work out

A painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui, one of thousands of insect species that migrate over southern England

New Research

Researchers Record Trillions of Migrating Insects Swarming Through the Skies

Though bugs make up a large amount of biomass, little was known about their migrating habits, until now

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