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Smithsonian Magazine takes you on a journey through history, science, world culture and technology with breathtaking images from around the world.

Expanding Our Reach • FROM THE NATIONAL MALL TO RURAL SCHOOLHOUSES, SMITHSONIAN BRINGS LEARNING TO STUDENTS OF ALL AGES

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The Height of Modernity • Towering ambitions built the most charming skyscraper in America

Tallest. Structures. Ever. • THE SURPRISINGLY INTRICATE TIMELINE OF THE BIGGEST BUILDINGS ON EARTH

PRIDE OF PLACE • A 19th-century American painter and his subject make a bold statement

A Mammoth Journey • Isotopes tell the epic tale of one ancient mammal’s odyssey across Alaska

Kicking Around • SCIENTISTS HAVE PINPOINTED THE MANY PLACES ONE WOOLLY MAMMOTH ROAMED THROUGHOUT HIS EVENTFUL LIFE

THE TRUE MIRACLE ON ICE • The story behind the most efficient—and intriguing—piece of hardware in all of sports

Raising the Bar • When the military came looking for a nutritious wartime snack, Hershey’s delivered the goods

From Hieroglyphics to High Fashion • HOW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN STYLES TOOK OVER HAUTE COUTURE

Act now to slow GA with SYFOVRE • If you’ve been diagnosed with Geographic Atrophy (GA)

TRAIL BLAZER • Anthropologist Zelia Nuttall traveled the globe, decoded the Aztec calendar and transformed the way we think of ancient Mesoamerica

HEALING in HANOI

Going to Bat for Nature • Once seen as a menace, the gray-headed flying fox brings new life after Australia’s wildfires

ANISH KAPOOR’S CRIMSON TIDE • Renowned as a sculptor, the artist brings his incendiary style—and fiery palette—to the canvas in a new Venice studio

IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE • An ambitious New Deal program brought fascism into the spotlight. Then the drama moved onto the political stage

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

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