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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The nativity of the Christ child is not solely an occasion of Christian spirituality, but …

State-run cultural institutions, and galleries like Navachara in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, are leading the way in technological innovations for an immersive experience for museum visitors in India.

​After 20 years of assembling what may be the greatest typewriter collection in the world, Soboroff is putting all 33 of his beloved machines up for auction.

Is there a more iconic set of ears in science fiction than those of Mr. Spock? The half-human, half-Vulcan science officer, first portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek: The

A new exhibit at the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles travels back to the horse-and-buggy days.

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts read from the Book of Genesis in a live telecast to Earth as they circled the moon.

Holiday shopping is the pits. There I’ve said it.

Funding for the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum is in limbo as both parties wrangle over budget spending — and there it should stay until Congress can repeal its enabling statute entirely.

The federal prohibition on at-home distilling violates the U.S. Constitution, a new lawsuit argues.

Plenty of good Samaritans helped fellow humans in need. More than a few baby animals were born, and a lot of D.C.-area residents turned over 100 years old. Some...