Students at Westlake High School in Waldorf, Md., participate in an interactive digital conversation with historian Kenneth C. Davis about late 19th and early 20th century American history on Thursday. The school uses a state of the art "telepresence center" for students to connect with experts all over the world. NPR/Celeste Headlee hide caption

This summer Paris will start dimming its streetlights, though major landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, will not be affected. Mike Hewitt/Getty Images hide caption

Luis Guzman and Adam Sandler in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch Drunk Love. Anonymous/AP hide caption

Jamaica Kincaid, author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, lives in Vermont. Kenneth Noland/Farrar, Straus and Giroux hide caption

Margaret Bonds in 1956. Born in Chicago in 1913, Bonds became one of the first African-American female composers to gain recognition in the United States. Carl Van Vechten/Wikimedia Commons hide caption