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The swampy, semitropical wilderness in southern Florida called the Everglades lies in a peculiar bowl-shaped depression that was bound to arouse the curiosity of geologists. They concluded years ago that the distinctive cavity was probably formed over many aeons as ground water slowly dissolved a surface layer of limestone...
But Jiang Qing and three other leftists loyal to Mao, who became known as the Gang of Four, retaliated. In April 1976 they ousted Deng from all his offices, leaving him in the political wilderness for the third time in his career. This time he was in physical danger for...
In the spring of 1916, a 14-year-old San Franciscan was taken to see Yosemite National Park. There he was presented with a simple box camera. It was an epochal gift: over the next 68 years Ansel Adams was to become America's best-known photographer and a major...
Some major artists create popular stereotypes that last for decades; others never reach into popular culture at all. Winslow Homer was a painter of the first kind. Even today, 150 years after his birth, one sees his echoes on half the magazine racks of America. Just as John James Audubon...