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How an Experiment to Amplify Light in Hospital Operating Rooms Led to the Accidental Invention of the Snow Globe
The origins of the decoration lie in Vienna’s 17th district, where the inventor’s descendants are still making them for ...
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Erik Trinidad
Erik Trinidad is an award-winning freelance travel and food lifestyle journalist and video creator. He has written for AFAR, ...
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A Brilliant Folk Musician Turned the Natural Sounds of the Blue Ridge Mountains Into Powerful Songs
Daniel Bachman is on a mission to evoke Virginia’s past through strange medleys of sounds Brendan Fitzgerald Daniel Bachman ...
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At the Smithsonian’s National Design Museum, a Home Is What You Make of It
In a new exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, artists explore just what makes a space feel like home ...
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Seventy-Seven Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2024, From a Mysterious ‘Anomaly’ Near the Great Pyramid of Giza to a Missing Portrait of Henry VIII
The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost ...
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On This Day in 1831, Charles Darwin Embarked on a Journey That Led to His Groundbreaking Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
Darwin was just 22 when he set out on a voyage that would change the way humanity understands itself and the natural world ...