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Sea Glass A Disappearing Treasure
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Art & Design
O. Louis Mazzatenta/National GeographicTerra Cotta Warriors March Through Washington
()In 1974, a group of farmers digging a well in central China stumbled upon a buried figure. It turned out to be one of an estimated 7,000 life-sized terra cotta warriors in an underground tomb complex. The warriors and a host of other figures were created for China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi. Host Guy Raz drops by the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C., to see an exhibit of the figures.
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View a gallery of Tim Burton's sketches from an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
Fine Art
Cuba Was A Canvas For Artist Belkis Ayon()
November 19, 2009 When Ayon committed suicide in 1999, she was just 32 years old — and already a star in the Cuban art world. A major exhibit of her work now under way in Havana has revived an enduring mystery in Cuba — about art, African myths and the shadowy, all-male secret society known as Abakua.
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Meet The Next Best Street Photographer: Google()
November 18, 2009 Has Google joined the ranks of the best street photographers? Jon Rafman might argue so, and he has a collection of Google Street View photos to make the case.
Architecture
Parking Garages: A Multilevel History()
November 18, 2009 "House of Cars," an exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., traces the origins and design challenges of the places we store our cars. While it's unclear who created the first parking garage, the exhibit highlights some little-known and quirky facts about these structures that dot the American landscape.
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Mystery Ghost Photos()
November 18, 2009 By Claire O'Neill How do you think these ghostly photographs were made? This slideshow requires version 9 or higher of the Adobe Flash Player. Get the latest Flash Player. 'xrays' ...
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Stone Spire Forest In The Middle Of Nowhere()
November 17, 2009 There's a crazy landform in Madagascar called a tsingy, which, euphemistically translated from Malagasy, means "where one cannot walk barefoot." It's basically a treacherous forest of limestone spires that could impale anything, and cut straight thro...
