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Sesquicentennial of a Railroad Across America

Wed., May 8, 2019

It has been 150 years since eastbound and westbound railroad tracks first met at Utah's Promontory Summit, the culmination of many years of planning

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The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt

Tue., May 7, 2019

Andrea Wulf, the New York Times bestselling author, discusses her new illustrated book, The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt—her second work about the intrepid explorer and naturalist.

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Making Ink from Oak Galls

Wed., May 1, 2019 | Usha Lee McFarling

Kelly Fernandez, head gardener of the Herb and Shakespeare gardens at The Huntington, and her team of docent volunteers are always on the lookout for plant materials

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Allison L. Strom, Carnegie Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, shows how astronomers are now using the world’s largest telescopes to determine the chemical DNA of even very distant galaxies, and how this information is answering key questions about how galaxies like our own formed and evolved.

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Celia Paul and the Brontës

Wed., April 24, 2019 | Karla Ann Merino Nielsen, Ph.D.

Beautifully installed on the second floor of the Huntington Art Gallery, the "Celia Paul" exhibition invokes works by some of the 19th-century painters in The Huntington's permanent collection

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The Image of Empire

Wed., April 24, 2019 | Melinda McCurdy

A placid river lazily flows past verdant hills, a high mountain retreat rests beneath towering pines, and delicate arches glow in the warmth of the setting sun.

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Virtual Model of a Masterful Wood Carving

Wed., April 24, 2019 | Justin Underhill

I am a digital art historian at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies American and early modern European art.

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The Making of a Chinese Medicine Text

Tue., April 23, 2019

Sean Bradley, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington, explores the history and development of an early text on emergency Chinese medicine, the Zhouhou beiji fang 肘後備急方 (Emergency Medicines to Keep on Hand), by the 4th-century alchemist and scholar, Ge Hong 葛洪.