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JR Todd’s racing legacy celebrated in Air and Space Museum's 'Nation of Speed' exhibit
Fox local via AOL· 5 days agoThe Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum just opened up a new exhibit featuring veteran National Hot Rod Association Funny Car driver J.R. Todd. The ...
Juneteenth events celebrate the end of slavery in the United States
United Press International via Yahoo News· 6 days agoJuneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000...
New horned dinosaur species discovered 'largest and most ornate' of its kind ever found
KABC 7 Los Angeles· 5 days agoA new, giant-horned species of dinosaur was discovered that researchers said is the "largest and...
Judy Garland’s Minnesota hometown hopes to bring back Dorothy’s ruby slippers
MPR News· 5 days agoAt its annual Judy Garland Days festival, the city will fundraise to bring back a prized prop that...
The Hirshhorn took its modern art treasures out of the vault. It’s a joy.
The Day· 13 hours agoNo doubt, the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has a collection that can stand up to any of them. Especially over the past decade or so, the museum ...
To Follow the Real Early Human Diet, Eat Everything
Scientific American· 7 hours agoPaul Saladino is stripped to the waist, biceps bulging as he works a butcher’s saw back and forth across a cow femur. Saladino, a medical doctor, is a...
How This Self-Taught Guitarist Became a Music Legend
Smithsonian Magazine· 13 hours agoWhen Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten was around 8 years old, she would slip into her older brother’s room when he was at work, take his banjo off the wall and toy around with it. Immediately, though ...
The Hope Diamond: The 'cursed' blue gemstone coveted by royalty
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoDespite its similarity to another fictional diamond — the Heart of the Ocean, worn by Kate Winslet's...
Children respond to 'Voices and Votes' question
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 6 days agoResponses are posted at the exhibit. "Voices and Votes: Democracy in America" is presented by the Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street project in cooperation ...
Homewood Suites unveils renovated Washington DC hotel
Hotel Management Network via Yahoo Finance· 6 days agoLast year, Crestline Hotels & Resorts was picked to manage the Ohio University Inn and Conference...
