Inside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, a world of wonders unfolds. With a…
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Sissel Tolaas, a Norwegian artist and scientist, is not your typical historian. Her domain of…
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In the 1980s, a daring heist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum left the art…
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In a daring heist that took place in 1964, the American Museum of Natural History…
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History
The Fiji Mermaid: What Was It and Why Did It Garner Such Interest?
by Wu Mingrenby Wu MingrenOften written as ‘Feejee,’ the Fiji mermaid became a widely recognized sideshow attraction in the…
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History
The Hughes H-4 Hercules: was the Spruce Goose ever Going to Work?
by Kurt Readmanby Kurt ReadmanThe Hughes H-4 Hercules, which is also commonly called the Spruce Goose, was the world’s…
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The history of zombies goes back thousands of years. The beliefs of the undead from around the world have made their way into pop culture.
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There has never been a single arrest. The Gardner Museum Heist remains one of the nation’s most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.