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See Picasso’s Lesser-Known Print Works, Which He Continued Experimenting With Into His 80s
A new exhibition spotlights the Spanish artist's printmaking talents, which he began honing in his 20s. In the decades that ...
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Archaeologists Stumble Upon 900-Year-Old Door Guardian Statues in Cambodia
The team was analyzing the structure of a royal palace’s gate when they discovered 12 statues made out of sandstone ...
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A Simple Chemical Shift Explains Why Parrots Are So Colorful, Study Suggests
Unlike other birds, which get pigments from their diets, parrots produce their own—but scientists never fully understood the ...
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Jill Biden Unveils a Reimagined White House Tour, Which Invites Visitors to ‘Touch, Hear and See’ History
The public tours of the historic residence hadn't been overhauled in decades. For two years, the first lady's office has been ...
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This Ancient Paw Print on a Pottery Fragment in Jerusalem Is the Oldest Known Evidence of a Cat Kneading
The deep penetrations suggest that the feline was pressing its claws into the clay, a behavior sometimes known as "making ...
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Pesto, Australia’s Enormous, Beloved Baby Penguin, Is Growing Up and Losing His Downy Feathers
The viral king penguin chick at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is beginning to molt, a process that will give him his distinctive adult plumage ...
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Cities Are Projecting Their History Onto Streets and Buildings After Dark
Pedestrians in Montreal, Grand Rapids and other locations can time-travel thanks to installations that map historical scenes ...
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Celebrate Day of the Dead With These 15 Scenes of Festivities and Remembrance
These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show how communities in Mexico and beyond mark Día de los Muertos.
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The Nation’s Oldest Schoolhouse for Black Children Will Open to the Public Next Year
Work is underway to restore the Bray School, which will be dedicated in a ceremony on Friday. The historic building in Colonial Williamsburg will open its doors in the spring of 2025 ...
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Scientists Unearth the Oldest Tadpole Fossil Ever Found, and It’s a 161-Million-Year-Old ‘Giant’
The oldest recorded fossils of adult frogs date back to around 217 million years ago, in the Late Triassic Period, but the ...
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The ‘Super Bowl of Wildlife Art’ Is All About Ducks, and It Has Protected America’s Wetlands for 90 Years
Introduced in 1934, the federal duck stamp contest has raised more than $1.2 billion and protected at least 6.5 million acres ...
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Divers Recover 300-Year-Old Glass Onion Bottles From a Shipwreck Off the Coast of Florida
The fragile 18th-century containers, which likely held alcoholic beverages that were shared among passengers and crew members ...