How The Last Known American Slave Ship Sparked One Of The Nation’s Greatest Artistic Traditions

An exhibition in Gee’s Bend, AL tells the story of Dinah Miller’s arrival and her enduring influence on the community, its ...

A history of mistletoe: The parasitic ‘dung on a twig’

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some interpretations suggest that, “kissing under the mistletoe symbolizes forgiveness, ...
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Wright brothers achieved the world’s first flight on this day in 1903

The story of the first powered flight, and how a fragile aircraft in 1903 changed commerce, warfare, and human movement ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Disney Was in Distress During the Late 1940s. Then ‘Cinderella’ Came to the Rescue and Saved the Company From Financial Disaster

But with the 1940s came World War II and workers’ strikes, and Disney lost its foreign markets, most of its box office sales ...