In Soweto, an unlikely champion offers lessons in riding and in life Wearing his national title show jumping jacket, Mafokate checks the reins before mounting his horse at a local competition in the ...
Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist ...
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The 1960 AFL Championship game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Houston Oilers was typical of the high-risk, exciting brand of football the AFL was known for. NFL / Getty Images Having risked his ...
Conservationists saved the fuzzy creatures in Victoria, Australia. Now, the animals are showing remarkable signs of genetic recovery ...
At the time, athletes received silver medals for winning first place. The Olympics didn't introduce gold medals until 1904 ...
"You have every sensation of being hurled through space. The machine is throbbing under you with its cylinders beating a drummer's tattoo, and the air tears past you in a gale. In its maddening dash ...
Visitor data from the Smithsonian’s FUTURES exhibition provides a road map for how to navigate the world ahead You’ve got questions. We’ve got experts. Futures Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary ...
The lines, right angles and other mysterious designs required careful planning and robust cognitive abilities, according to a new study ...
"Super-agers" seem to produce more new nerve cells in a brain region important for memory than other people their age ...
Elizabeth Goldring is an art historian at the University of Warwick in England. Her latest book, Holbein: Renaissance Master, was published in January by Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon ...
Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, ...