Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2011

Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2011

• The Euro Turns 10 (So How’s that Working Out for You?)
• What Do Squirrels Do in Winter?
• The Realities of Homelessness
• Walking with the World on the Camino de Santiago
• What Do Painted Turtles Do in Winter?
• Christmas in Pictures (Redux)
• The Origin of Christmas in December
• Carbon Copy the Cat and the Rise and Fall of Pet Cloning
• The View from Above: The Satellite Sentinel Project and the Sudans
• Tadpole Ninja
• Best-Kept Secrets: The Other Half
• Christmas and Cash: On the Origins of a Commercial Holiday
• Stonehenge (Picture of the Day)
• Remembering Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind
• Mediterranean Palette
• Revisiting “Christmas Bells” (The Real Verses by Longfellow)
• Patti Smith, “Land” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Hong Kong’s Spectacular Skyline (Picture of the Day)
• Kim Carnes, “Bette Davis Eyes” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Remembering Louella Parsons, a Pioneer of Celebrity Gossip
• Long-Tailed Duck at Nature Boardwalk
• Pearl Harbor: A Historic Attack as Seen in Film
• Space Worms and the Biological Impact of Long-Duration Spaceflight
• On Cutting Cursive from the Curriculum
• The Human Body as a Network of Bacterial Gene Transfer (Science Up Front)
• Red Planet Reconnaissance: Mars Pathfinder
• World AIDS Day 2011: The HIV Genome (Picture of the Day)
• The Chimes of Big Ben (Picture of the Day)
• The Color of 47-Million-Year-Old Moths
• Ozone Loss in the Arctic: 5 Questions for JPL Senior Research Scientist Gloria L. Manney
• Adrift on the Amazon River (Picture of the Day)
• Preventing High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease
• Celebrating Thanksgiving: A Look Back on the Britannica Blog
• The Kinks, “20th Century Man” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Robert Johnson, “I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Weird and Wonderful Wills
• In Pursuit of the Time Machine (From the Field)
• Central Asia’s Celestial Mountains (Picture of the Day)
• Venice of the North: Brugge (Picture of the Day)
• The Art of Illustrating Extinct Life (Picture of the Day)
• The Easybeats, “Friday on My Mind” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Saturn as Viewed from the Cassini Orbiter (Picture of the Day)
• Cephalopod Camouflage: The Ultimate Invisibility Cloak
• Sleuthing Through the Books: Five Questions for Author, Critic, and Sherlock Holmes Fan Michael Dirda
• Preparing for the Winter Olympics 2014 on the Black Sea
• Booker T. and the MG’s, “Green Onions” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Growing Apple: 5 Questions for Computer Pioneer Andy Hertzfeld
• One Hundred Years of War in the Air: Five Questions for History Professor J.F. Guilmartin, Jr.
• Autumn Meadowhawks Arrive Fashionably Late
• The Colossal Heads of the Olmec (Picture of the Day)
• The Marching Eagle: Africa’s Secretary Bird
• Bringing Communities and Conservation Together to Restore Earth
• The Monarch of Butterflies (Picture of the Day)
• The Fall of the Prophet: The Battle of Tippecanoe (Picture of the Day)
• Remembering the Fifth of November, Guy Fawkes Day
• It’s Raining Rubies!
• Gram Parsons, “Hickory Wind” (Great Moments in Pop Music)
• Heating Up: Wildfire in the Arctic Tundra (Science Up Front)
• Arboreal Anurans (Picture of the Day)
• Ometepe Island (Photo of the Day)
• Life in the Smoker: The Fire Lobe of the Chimney
• Famous Last Words
• The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 (Picture of the Day)
• Wallace Stevens, Poet of a Larger Summer
• Chi-town’s Animal Magnetism: 5 Questions for Biologist Seth Magle
• Ghost Towns and Ghouls: Frightening Tales in The Thousand and One Nights
• Halloween: What You May or May Not Know
• Halloween in Hollywood
• Happy Birthday, Mount Rushmore (Picture of the Day)
• Thank You For Not Breeding
• Enlightening the World: The Statue of Liberty
• Sixty Years of the Zebra Crossing
• Family Planning for a Healthier Population
• Releasing the Last Batch of Smooth Green Snakes
• Saturn I: The Launch of Spaceflight in the United States (Picture of the Day)
• Why Population Matters
• Britannica Population Forum: Seven. Billion. People.
• The Flight of the Bumblebee Bat
• Spider Monkey (Photo of the Day)
• Moving Niagara Forward
• Time, Chance, and President Obama
• Mysterious Microbes and Other Field Notes from an Environmental Scientist (From the Field)
• Happy Birthday, Picasso! (Picture of the Day)
• The New York Dolls, “Personality Crisis” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Of Life and the Movies: 5 Questions for Film Critic Roger Ebert
• In Defense (Again) of the Caucus and Primary System
• Not Around the Neck: Awesome Albatrosses (Photos of the Day)
• Digital Derring-Do: Piano Virtuoso Franz Liszt’s 200th Birth Anniversary
• Breast Cancer Awareness Month: The Stories of Survivors
• Seeing Into the Brain with a Miniature Fluorescence Microscope (Science Up Front)
• 1,000 Songs in Your Pocket: Happy Birthday iPod
• Time to Get Out the Winter Clothes
• Rushmore (School’s In! A Film Series)
• Struthio Strut (Photos of the Day)
• Where Will Digitization Take Us? We Don’t Know for Sure, But We’re Heading There Fast
• Seasonal Scares: Halloween Horrors at Warwick Castle
• Masaya Volcano (Photo of the Day)
• The Shadow of the Moose: Wyoming’s Herds in Decline
• Clueless (School’s In! A Film Series)
• Charles James: The Structure of Couture
• Scarface Goes Down: Al Capone’s Tax Evasion Conviction
• Ireland: The Emerald Isle (Photos of the Day)
• Gregory’s Girl (School’s In! A Film Series)
• Of American Revolutionaries and American Occupiers
• Perception of the Vegetative State: An Interview with Social Psychologist Kurt Gray
• Mae Jemison: The First African American Woman Astronaut (Photo of the Day)
• Dark and Trying Hour: The Death of Kazimierz Pułaski
• Historical Dublin: Churches, Castles, and Landmarks
• Inhaling the Fumes: William Thomas Green Morton and Ether Anesthetic
• Underwater Nest (Photo of the Day)
• Sand, Surf, and Research: 5 Questions for Mote Marine Laboratory CEO and President Kumar Mahadevan
• The People’s House: The White House in Photos
• Free at Last: The Chile Mine Rescue Remembered
• An Unheralded Job Success Story: North Dakota’s Full Employment Strategy
• Remembering Ashok Kumar
• Dancing with Steve Jobs (A Tribute to a Contemporary Giant)
• Slovakia and the Euro Bailout: What Happened and What’s Next? (The Long and Short Versions)
• How Smart Does a President Have to Be?
• Thawing in Iceland: The Reagan-Gorbachev Cold War Summit (Photo of the Day)
• Pint-Sized Pika Challenged by Climate Change
• National Coming Out Day: Fighting the Everyday “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
• The Lure of the Full Moon
• Tom Zé: Parabéns and Happy 75th Birthday to an Eccentric Master of Psychedelic Samba
• Strange Loops (Snapshots of Snakes)
• The Wuchang Uprising on Double Ten (10/10/1911)
• The Literature of Climate Change: Recommended Reading
• Locked in Ice: The Expeditions of Fridtjof Nansen (Picture of the Day)
• Drop the Tails: The 125th Anniversary of the Tuxedo
• Never Give a Sucker an Even Break: W.C. Fields’s Classic Film Turns 70
• Powering the American Southwest: The Hoover Dam Goes Online
• Steve Jobs: Making the World More Beautiful
• Did the United States Senate Just Go Nuclear?
• The Legacy of Desmond Tutu (Ask an Editor)
• A “Fair and Balanced” Birthday: Fox News Channel
• Opening the Obelisk: The Washington Monument (Photos of the Day)
• Steve Jobs (1955-2011): The Death of a Genius
• The Assassination of Anwar el-Sadat 30 Years On (Ask an Editor)
• Birth of the Talkies: The Jazz Singer (Picture of the Day)
• The Breakfast Club (School’s In! A Film Series)
• Understanding Yom Kippur (Ask an Editor)
• Sweet Lips (Photo of the Day)
• The Pronghorn of North America: Running from the Past
• Chris Christie’s Decision and the 2012 Election: Advantage Romney
• Congratulating Adam G. Riess: Britannica Contributor and Newest Nobel Laureate
• What’s in a Word (or Tens of Millions of Them)? Britannica’s Most-Used Words
• And First Out of the Gate…Sputnik (Photo of the Day)
• Easy A (School’s In! A Film Series)
• Mighty Mites (Photo of the Day)
• The Kazakh Steppe
• Not “Peace for Our Time”: Picturing Appeasement
• Fame (School’s In! A Film Series)
• Fluff Films: In Honor of Animal Remembrance Month
• Happy 50th Birthday, Julia Gillard
• Observing at a Large Telescope (From the Field)
• Putting the *Cough* Back in Coffee
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (School’s In! A Film Series)
• Panajachel Sunset (Photo of the Day)
• Blackboard Jungle (School’s In! A Film Series)
• In the Garden of Beasts: An Interview with Erik Larson
• Spiky Splendor: Joshua Tree National Park (Photo Essay)
• Fall Fashion Update
• Three O’Clock High (School’s In! A Film Series)
• The Individual Mandate: An Unconstitutional Expansion of Federal Power (A Reply to Kermit Roosevelt)
• Two Years Under Glass: The First Biosphere 2 Mission
• The Night Sky (Picture of the Day)
• Napoleon Dynamite (School’s In! A Film Series)
• Reflections on the Reign of Qianlong (Ask an Editor)
• Guatemalan Flower (Photo of the Day)
• Restoring Native Plants in the UK: 5 Questions for Kew Scientist Michael Way
• The Discovery of the Burrunan Dolphin
• 10 Things I Hate About You (School’s In! A Film Series)
• Belief and Science (From the Field)
• Elephant Appreciation Day: Don’t Drink the Water
• Hoosiers (School’s In! A Film Series)
• Bob Dent Dies: The First Legal Voluntary Euthanasia
• The Prospects for a Third Party in 2012 (5 Questions for Americans Elect CEO Elliot Ackerman)
• Mozambique Spitting Cobra (Photo of the Day)
• Back to School (School’s In: A Film Series)
• Is the “Obamacare” Individual Mandate Constitutional?
• School’s In! A Film Series
• Deaf Awareness Week: The Nuances of Deaf Culture
• City of Gold: Johannesburg (Photo of the Day)
• Yarr! Talk Like a Pirate Day
• Branches Unbound (Photos of the Day)
• Pranpur: The India That Rejoices in Its Crafts
• Commemorating the Trail of Tears
• Caye Caulker Morning (Photo of the Day)
• Light-Insensitive Cavefish Provide Insight into Circadian Rhythm
• The Road to Plant Invasions: 5 Questions on Invasive Plants for Ecologist Emily Rauschert
• Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage in Pictures
• Comparative Psychology: The World is Your Laboratory (From the Field)
• The Disappearance of Everett Ruess: 5 Questions for Biographer and Historian Philip L. Fradkin
• Hungry Hawksbill (Photos of the Day)
• Walter J. Freeman II and Lobotomy: Probing for Answers
• Paris’s Best Patisseries, Bakeries and Cafes for Food Lovers
• High Heels: Take Two
• The Father of Bluegrass: Bill Monroe (Photo of the Day)
• The Virtual Physiological Human: 5 Questions for Biophysicist Peter Kohl
• Rick Perry and the Social Security Ponzi Scheme: Doubling Down on 12
• Magnificent Macaws (Photos of the Day)
• #1: Bin Laden’s Death: Mission Accomplished? (September 11 Attacks and Aftermath in Pictures)
• Is the Tree of Life Hypothesis Just a Pile of Sticks?
• #2: Unfurling the Flag and Honoring the Victims (September 11 Attacks and Aftermath in Pictures)
• Britannica Remembers 9/11 and the World Trade Center (Video)
• Reflections on 9/11: International Law Professor William Schabas
• Reflections on 9/11: Political Scientist George J. Andreopoulos
• #3: “I Looked For You My Baby Brother!” (September 11 Attacks and Aftermath in Pictures)
• Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay: Otis Redding
• Aberdeen’s TechFest: Heaven for Science Geeks
• “We Are All Americans”: Reflections on 9/11
• Colonial Antigua Guatemala (Photo of the Day)
• Reflections on 9/11: International Law Professor Malcolm N. Shaw
• Reflections on 9/11: Historian Bernard A. Weisberger
• #4: Heroes of 9/11 (September 11 Attacks and Aftermath in Pictures)
• Jobs – Jobs – Jobs!
• 872 Days in Leningrad (Photo of the Day)
• The Origins of O: Oprah Winfrey’s First National Broadcast
• Reflections on 9/11: Historian Allan R. Millett
• Reflections on 9/11: Former Yeoman Warder Geoffrey Abbott
• #5: 3,000 Tragedies (September 11 Attacks and Aftermath in Pictures)
• Wolf from Oz: The Last Thylacine?
• The Social Bonds of Meerkats: Their Problem-Free Philosophy (Picture Essay of the Day)
• Animatronic Dinosaur Up For Grabs at $350,000
• 10 Books on 9/11
• Giant Saltwater Crocodile Captured and Destined for Eco-Tourism Park
• Reflections on 9/11: War Studies Professor Sir Lawrence D. Freedman
• Reflections on 9/11: Law Professor Deborah Denno
• #6: They’ll “Hear from All of Us Soon” (September 11 Attacks and Aftermath in Pictures)
• Lounging on a Crinoid (Photo of the Day)
• Ecological Specialization and Vulnerability of Coral-Feeding Butterflyfish (Science Up Front)
• Reflections on 9/11: Britannica Contributors Remember
• #7: The Pentagon and the Attack at Arlington (September 11 Attacks and Aftermath in Pictures)
• #8: “America is under Attack” (September 11 Attacks and Aftermath in Pictures)
• We Love L.A. (Photo Essay)
• #9: The Twin Towers Aflame (September 11 Attacks and Aftermath in Pictures)
• #10: Mohammed Atta in Maine (September 11 Attacks and Aftermath in Pictures)
• Anna Hazare and Lokpal: Is There a Teaching Moment We’re Missing?
• Stellar Evolution (Picture of the Day)
• Rural Zambian Kids Remind a Scientist of the Wonder of Space (From the Field)
• Art of the Floating World: Hiroshige (Pictures of the Day)
• The Beach Boys, “Surfin’” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• The Origin of the Seventh Cholera Pandemic
• Backyard Bugs! (Picture of the Day)
• The Tammar Wallaby Genome: A Closer Look at Marsupial Reproduction
• Cuba Travel Forbidden No More
• ABBA, “Dancing Queen” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• The Strange Beauty of Sunspots (Pictures of the Day)
• Native Stone Scenic Byway, Kansas (Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path)
• John McCain Turns 75: A Life in Pictures
• Judges and the Rule of Law
• San Antonio River Walk, Texas (Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path)
• The 12 Best Hockey Terms
• Hungry, Hungry (and Cute) Hippos (Photo of the Day)
• Women’s Equality Then and Now
• Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana (Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path)
• White Sands, New Mexico (Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path)
• Fantastic Voyager (Picture Essay)
• Steve Jobs: “Insanely Great”
• Why Anna Hazare is Wrong and Lokpal a Bad Idea
• The Diverse Life Histories and Ecology of Scarab Beetles
• In the Shadow of Vesuvius (Picture of the Day)
• Ireland’s Historic Castles: Ashford, Dromoland & Castlemartyr
• The Old Post Office Tower, Washington, D.C., and Points Beyond (Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path)
• The Greatest Fictional Lawyers
• Stem Cells: Cellular Fountains of Youth (Picture of the Day)
• Greene County, Tennessee (Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path)
• Designing the King Memorial
• Well Worth the Money
• Elephants and Newton’s Laws of Motion (Picture of the Day)
• Area 51, Nevada (Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path)
• Stealing Beauty: 10 Notable Art Thefts
• The Commerson’s Dolphins of the Kerguelen Islands and Southern South America
• An Iron Curtain Has Descended: 10 Key Events in Cold War History
• Bill Clinton Turns 65: A Life in Pictures
• Black Numerals: 75 Years Since the Murder of Lorca
• People Helping People: 5 Humanitarians to Remember
• Chautauqua, New York (Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path)
• Why This Year’s British A Levels Results Are More Important Than Ever
• Smokes on the Water: The Geothermal Charms of Reykjavik
• Mendocino, California (Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path)
• Hurricane Camille Remembered
• Unexpected Visitors: Wildlife Invasions in Our Towns and Cities
• Skyline Drive, Virginia (Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path)
• The UK Riots of 2011: Uprising of ‘Losers’ and ‘Chancers’
• Should Executions Be Televised?
• The State of Capital Punishment: 5 Questions for Law Professor Deborah Denno
• Protozoans in Pictures
• Holly Springs, Mississippi (Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path)
• The London Riots as Conceptual Art
• Book a Place at the World’s Biggest Book Festival
• The Rule of Waivers
• Formula Programming: An Indian Perspective on Reality Talent Shows
• Indian Independence Day
• Hannibal (and Marceline), Missouri (Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path)
• Vacation Venues off the Beaten Path: A Series
• Anarchy in the UK: How the London Riots will Shape Britain’s Politics
• Britannica Blog’s Goin’ Fishin’
• Lucy and Desi: 10 Notable Entertainment Power Couples
• Social Media and “Friendship”
• In the Wake of the Humpback: Tracking Whale Migration (Science Up Front)
• Down in the Hole: One Year After the Chile Mine Rescue of 2010
• Is a Nation Without a Government Still a Nation? The Case of Belgium
• Happy 50th Birthday, Mr. President: The Obama Presidency in Pictures
• A Whole Lotta Lolla: Britannica’s Guide to Lollapalooza
• A Quick Guide to Washington’s Free Smithsonian Museums and Galleries
• Learning to Forgive
• When Artists Make War
• Underwater with Sharks
• The Exotic Bird-of-Paradise Flower
• Mad About Manchester’s Best Attractions
• Desert Storm Brewing: Iraq Invades Kuwait
• Wild Bill Hickok: A Frontier Legend, 135 Years Gone
• Gabrielle Giffords and the Debt Ceiling Vote We Can All Applaud
• Imma Let You Finish: 10 Classic Moments in MTV History
• Dysfunction, Default, and the Debt Ceiling Crisis
• London Bridge: From Britain to Arizona, a Span of Anniversaries
• The L’Aquila Earthquake’s Underwater Damage (Photo of the Day)
• Phone Hacking and the Media: How One Tragic Case Broke the Murdoch Empire
• Who Really Discovered Insulin?
• Pretty as a Princess: Charles and Diana’s Royal Wedding 30 Years On
• Jobs, Taxes, and Deficits
• The Iconic Arc de Triomphe at 175
• The Wild Bunch (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• Tremors in Tangshan: The Earthquake of 1976
• Bizarre Birdmen of Bognor Regis
• An Uneasy Truce: The Korean War
• Dashing Through the Ocean with the Speedy Sailfish
• The Professionals (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• Attitude and Altitude: A Short History of Shoes
• The Last Hours of the Andrea Doria (Picture of the Day)
• Evolution of the Equine
• Howling Haboobs! An Arabic Word Whips up a Storm in Arizona
• World War II Plane Wreck Under the Sea (Photo of the Day)
• Don’t Cry for the Lobbyists
• The Death of Amy Winehouse (1983-2011)
• Machu Picchu: The Incan Fortress in the Andes
• The Battles of Bull Run (Photo of the Day)
• Unforgiven (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• Growing Structural Evidence: Skills Mismatch Between Idle Workers and Vacant Jobs
• Volunteers in Blue and Gray: Why They Fought
• A Giant Step: The Apollo Moon Landing
• The Life of a Lily Pad
• Have You Heard of Community Health Workers or Promotores de Salud?
• Hippity Hop, it’s National Rabbit Week!
• Do You Want to Fight with Me? (Photo of the Day)
• No Angels: William Makepeace Thackeray’s Bicentennial
• The Bobby Fuller Four, “I Fought the Law” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Shared Sacrifice in the Fiscal Crisis
• To be a Catcher in the Rye
• Uncompromising Realism: Rembrandt van Rijn
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• Colin Montgomerie’s British Open
• Vive le 14 juillet! Happy Bastille Day
• Amedeo Avogadro: A Law, a Number, and the Mole
• Posse (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• In Jovian Skies: Galileo (Photos of the Day)
• The Electric Horseman (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• Happy Birthday, Bucky!
• The Cowboys (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• Top 10 Sports Clichés You Should Never Use
• Thinking about the French Revolution
• The Coral that Looks like a Flower (Photo of the Day)
• Lonely Are the Brave (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• South Sudan: Birth of a New Nation
• Gonzo Gothic: Mervyn Peake’s Centennial
• Betty Ford RIP (1918-2011): A Life in Pictures
• No More Rocket Men: The Last Manned Space Shuttle Launch
• The Modern Mariner: 5 Questions with Philippe Cousteau
• Be Nice to New Jersey (or We’ll Have to Kill You)
• Relative Size: The Moon and Earth
• Bob Dylan, “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35″ (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• The Space Shuttle’s Final Countdown: 5 Questions for John Logsdon
• Singapore: A Flight Stopover with a Difference
• Before Luther: Jan Hus (Picture of the Day)
• A Fourth of July Jobs Message from Abraham Lincoln
• Garden of the Gulf: Prince Edward Island
• Happy Independence Day, America: Fun Fourth (of July) Facts
• Anniversaries in China and the United States
• American Vexillomania (Or, Crazy About the Stars and Stripes): 5 Questions for Historian Marc Leepson
• The Voting Age: How Low Should We Go?
• The People’s Princess: Diana in Pictures
• The End: Jim Morrison
• In the Dark Depths of Mammoth Cave
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• Top 10 Stories of 2011 (So Far)
• East to West
• Once Upon a Time in the West (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• Gone with the Wind Turns 75: In Case You Give a Damn…
• Peter H. Raven on Weeding Out the Obstacles to Plant Conservation (5 Questions)
• Wildlife Action: The Indian Gaur in Photos
• Ravenous (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• Lights, Camera, Fashion!
• Baroque Master: The Art of Peter Paul Rubens
• James Madison: The Final Publius Dies (175 Years Ago Today)
• The Summer-Solstice Glastonbury Festival Turns 40
• Obama, Clinton, Keynes, and the Enduring Mysteries of Job Creation
• The Moon in Motion
• Jeremiah Johnson (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• Britannica Weekly Pop News Quiz for June 24
• Celebrating Gay Pride in Photos
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series)
• Headline News: Ted Turner’s Generosity
• What’s the Matter with California? 5 Questions for Political Scientist Kimberly Nalder
• Battlefield Medicine: The Golden Hour and the Platinum Ten
• Contrarian Westerns: A Film Series
• Gay Rights in the Age of Obama: A Q&A with Fight OUT Loud President Waymon Hudson
• The Edinburgh Festival: An Awesome Celebration of Theatre and Art
• Operation Barbarossa: The Beginning of the End for Hitler
• Long Live the King: George V (Picture of the Day)
• The Rise and Fall of the Canada Lynx and Snowshoe Hare
• Midsummer: Sex, Sunshine, and Magic Mistletoe
• Clues from the Enigmatologist: 5 Questions For Master Puzzle Maker Will Shortz
• The Isolationists Are Coming! The Isolationists Are Coming!
• Frederick Gowland Hopkins and his “Accessory Food Factors”
• Britannica Weekly Pop News Quiz for June 17
• The Rose: An Ageless Beauty
• Happy Father’s Day: A Bestiary of Animal Breadwinners
• Icelandic National Day: A Profile in Pictures
• The State of Americas Rivers: 5 Questions for Conservationist Andrew Fahlund
• Flashy Fungi
• Winnie-the-Pooh Turns 90
• Dragonfly Metamorphosis
• Life in a Bubble: The World of the Water Spider
• Harry Nilsson, “Everybody’s Talkin’” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Flags of the World: 5 Questions for Vexillologist Whitney Smith
• Britannica’s Gong Show
• Fashion Fades/Only Style Remains
• The Springbok: Bounding Across Southern Africa
• UNIVAC at Your Service
• Marriage and the Law, 1967 and 2011
• The Day That Castles Died: The Death of Bavaria’s Mad King Ludwig
• Esther Ofarim, “T’en va pas” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Britannica Weekly Pop News Quiz for June 10
• Yosemite National Park in Pictures
• 1: Dazed and Confused (School’s Out! A Film Series)
• 2: Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (School’s Out! A Film Series)
• The Pale King in Exile: Polar Bears Dethroned?
• Celebrating the World’s Oceans in Verse and Photos
• 3: Election (School’s Out! A Film Series)
• Unmistakably Meerkat
• Evil E. Coli
• 4: If… (School’s Out! A Film Series)
• The Jobs Revolution
• The Longest Day: D-Day in Photos
• What’s the Problem, Exaggeration or Expenditure?
• 5: Summer School (School’s Out! A Film Series)
• The Rise of AIDS: Thirty Years Later
• When Losers Finish First: Top 10 Second Place “Victories”
• The Grand Canyon in Photos
• Consider a Korea-Japan Alliance
• 6: Superbad (School’s Out! A Film Series)
• Surveying the Lunar Surface
• 7: Carrie (School’s Out! A Film Series)
• Simulating Atlantic Tsunamis: 5 Questions for Geophysicists Steven N. Ward and Simon Day
• Britain’s Peatlands: Crane Flies, Birds, and Climate Change
• 8: American Graffiti (School’s Out! A Film Series)
• Hurricane Season Begins
• Substantial Style: The Menswear Edition
• A Few of Our Favorite Words: Can You Use These in a Sentence?
• President Obama’s Illegal War
• The Crayfish Water Purity Index (Photo of the Day)
• The Edinburgh Festival Fringe on a Shoestring
• 9: Heathers (School’s Out! A Film Series)
• Memorial Days
• 10: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (School’s Out! A Film Series)
• Amnesty International at 50
• Republicans 2012: Holding Out for a Hero
• The Hubble Space Telescope: Photographing the Final Frontier
• Britannica Weekly Pop News Quiz for May 27
• Climate Change and the Rise of Avian Malaria (Science Up Front)
• School’s Out! A Film Series
• Big River: The Mississippi Flood of 2011
• What the Dormouse Said
• The Beauty of Simplicity (Photo of the Day)
• Saving Endangered Species: A Numbers Game
• Bob Dylan in America: 5 Questions for Historian Sean Wilentz
• Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan
• World Turtle Day: From A Turtle Perspective
• May Flowers
• Individualism and Community
• Britannica Staff “Caught” Reading…
• The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and the Spread of Suicide Bombing
• Britannica Weekly Pop News Quiz for May 20
• Kelp Court: Sea Otter v. Sea Urchins
• Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Snakes Under Water (Photo of the Day)
• Happy Smile Month!
• Mutual Mimicry: Viceroy and Monarch
• The Eruption of Mount Saint Helens (Photo of the Day)
• The Big Society: Beyond Trivia and PR
• Fascinating Fascinators: What’s in a Name?
• Ooty: On Top of Nilgiris (Photo Essay)
• A Man in Motion: 5 Questions for Punk Rock Icon (and Much, Much More) Henry Rollins
• New Times, New Answers: Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago Mayoralty
• Big Shoes to Fill: Rahm Emanuel is Inaugurated Mayor of Chicago
• Amitai Etzioni on Communitarianism, Civil Rights, and Foreign Policy
• Government Waste: This Is the Business You Have Chosen
• Miss Jackson If You’re Nasty
• Britannica Weekly Pop News Quiz for May 13
• Healthy People 2020! What is it all about?
• Blood on the Rio Grande: The Mexican-American War
• The Day the Music Died: 10 Musicians Who Died Before Their Time
• Rediscovering Ramps
• Alexander the Great and the Fate of His Empire: 5 Questions for Historian Robin Waterfield
• International Nurses Day: From Battlefield to Bedside
• The Animals, “It’s My Life” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Legend: Bob Marley
• Chang and Eng: The Original Siamese Twins (Photo of the Day)
• Concealed Danger in a Cone Shell
• The Invention of Memory (Random Access Memory, That Is)
• Gift Ideas for Elizabeth II on Becoming Britain’s Second-Longest Reigning Monarch
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