These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...
Jeff Keith, a longtime resident and nonprofit founder, says he used duct tape to affix googly eyes to two public sculptures last month ...
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A Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University explains how the creative collaboration that happens in theater can be a model ...
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A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...