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Soaring Ambition • How Fallingwater gave Frank Lloyd Wright’s career a second wind

Wright-Hand Woman • TOO OFTEN FORGOTTEN, MARION MAHONY GRIFFIN WAS AN INVENTIVE AND REMARKABLE ARCHITECT

POETRY IN (PRO)MOTION • How the dubious tradition of song-sharking led to a strangely beautiful repository of folk art

When Ornithology Grew Up • Arthur Allen changed science forever with one simple idea: Stop killing rare birds

How a Worldwide Search Party Took Wing

AUTHENTIC ASIAN ARTISTRY • Crafted using the ancient technique of cloisonné, examples can be found in our National Museum of Natural History’s Anthropology collection.

HANDMADE IN AFRICA • Put the finishing touches on your home or outfit with unique pieces inspired by the National Museum of African Art.

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HIDDEN TREASURE • A new exhibition highlights an astonishing, rarely seen collection of Islamic art

A Most Miraculous Mold • The true, forgotten and sometimes-stinky history of the penicillin girls

Plant a Kiss • THE THORNY ORIGINS OF A YULETIDE CANOODLING TRADITION

THE FORGOTTEN COLONY • What excavations in Bermuda are revealing about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it shaped the New World

THE FEMINIST BEHIND THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN • THE UNTOLD STORY OF MATILDA GAGE, THE FREETHINKER WHO INSPIRED HER SON-IN-LAW L. FRANK BAUM’S CLASSIC NOVEL THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ

It’s Not Easy Being Seen • Glass frogs use translucence to evade predators. So why are researchers trying to find as many as they can?

An American Tale • WHEN A JAPANESE FAMILY WAS sent to an internment camp in 1942, ONE NEIGHBOR QUIETLY RISKED EVERYTHING TO LOOK AFTER THEIR FARM—AND THEIR FUTURE

Wild Flavors • IN SLOVENIA, CREATIVE CHEFS DISH UP

Don’t Be Puzzled • YOU CAN FIND NINE ANSWERS IN THESE PAGES

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