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History

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Bringing Dinosaurs Up to Speed

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The Birth of Brunch: Where Did This Meal Come From Anyway?

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A 1980s Look at Smithsonian Dinosaurs

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The Evolution of the Modern Kitchen

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How Tyrannosaurus Lost a Finger

Tab soda cans

Inviting Writing: Addicted to Tab

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May 2011 Anniversaries

May 2011 Anniversaries

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Help the New York Public Library Digitize Its Menus

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When Dinosaurs Were New

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Will the Dinosaurs Return?

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Food Dye Origins: When Margarine Was Pink

Fort Sumter

A Necessary Conflict

And an opportunity for re-examination

Yuri Gagarin

April 2011 Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

Col. Elmer Ellsworth became the first officer to die in the Civil War when he was gunned down by an innkeeper in Alexandria, Virginia.

The Civil War

How Col. Ellsworth’s Death Shocked the Union

It took the killing of their first officer to jolt the North into wholeheartedly supporting the Union cause

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Renaissance Table Etiquette and the Origins of Manners

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Dinosaur Sighting: Vintage Stegosaurus

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Creating an Allosaurus Feast

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Marvelous Macaroni and Cheese

The earliest known recorded mac’n’cheese recipe was scribbled down in 1769

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Always Brontosaurus to Me

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Restoring Nedoceratops: Gored by a Horned Rival?

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