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Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

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The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

The portrait of a fisherman was found in Minnesota by an anonymous collector. A new analysis has concluded that it could be ...

Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...

A group of young researchers captured and photographed the animal on a three-day expedition to the Eastern Sierra Nevada ...

Jeff Keith, a longtime resident and nonprofit founder, says he used duct tape to affix googly eyes to two public sculptures last month ...

A marine animal snacked on some sea lilies that did not agree with its stomach—and we now know what happened next ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...

A Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University explains how the creative collaboration that happens in theater can be a model ...