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Michelle Mehrtens

Washington, D.C.
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Shakespeare Referenced Dozens of Bird Species in His Work. This Artist Has Made It Her Mission to Paint Them All

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By Michelle Mehrtens
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Missy Dunaway’s colorful illustrations combine natural history, folklore and literature to depict the Bard’s birds Missy Dunaway’s idea to paint all of Shakespeare’s birds first took flight in college after a chat with a friend. During the conversation, while trying to quantify the playwright’s talent, Dunaway noted that he’d coined or popularized many common phrases, and then she cited his broad knowledge of nature. “I said, ‘Just look at how many birds he mentions,’” Dunaway recalls.
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A Young Black Girl Was the First to Desegregate a Maryland Carousel in the 1960s. Now, the Historic Merry-Go-Round Will Entertain Visitors on the National Mall Original

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By Michelle Mehrtens
| Smithsonian Magazine Verified
The ride from Gwynn Oak Amusement Park has been out of commission for renovations since 2023. It opens to the public on April 24 On August 28, 1963, a young Black couple in Baltimore had to decide whether to travel about 45 miles south to attend the March on Washington, along with more than 250,000 other Americans devoted to civil rights and racial equality.
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The James Webb Space Telescope and the Parker Solar Probe Changed How We See the Universe. Now, Their Models Have Found a Home at the Smithsonian

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By Michelle Mehrtens
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The National Air and Space Museum’s Virginia location now displays the objects which represent critical leaps forward in technology and exploration by NASA Imagine an enormous telescope with a sun shield the size of a tennis court that sends back proof of a lemon-shaped exoplanet raining diamonds. Then, picture a flying object that can hurtle toward the sun at 430,000 miles per hour and transmit news of Venus’ long plasma tail.
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