Smithsonian Institution

While you were at home stuffing turkey into your tongue cave with a fork lift, DEA agents and Navy SEALs were napalming the dickens out of Boone Forest, which means all of your evil marijuana plants are now incinerated forever. Happy...

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...private or public collection worldwide. And the collection's journey to the United States is a story filled with intrigue and mystery. The Smithsonian Institution wants to share this story with audiences worldwide, but putting together a...

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...a five-story atrium off the Mall entrance and stressed the need for an overhaul of its signature galleries. "People do come to the Smithsonian to connect with the national experience and to get a sense of the meaning of what it means...

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WASHINGTON -- Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last May. Astronauts brought...

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...our local author and share your favorite spots WASHINGTON (AP) Santa Claus is making an early appearance to open a new exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on the art and business of commercial holiday...

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...that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from failure in 1993 were recently returned to Earth and are going on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. The first phase of a new human spaceflight gallery opens Thursday...

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...parade, or at least ever since the Colonial marches of the military units, and some annual marches have lasted for decades. From the Smithsonian we learn that Santa's involvement in parades dates back to around 1909, when S.B. Call, a toy...

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