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Santa Claus is making an early appearance to open a new exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on the art and business of commercial holiday displays.The exhibit is a first for the museum and opens Friday. It covers the elaborate department store windows and retail displays dating back to the ...1920s, as well as the creation of floats for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.During its heyday in the 1950s, the Woodward and Lothrop department store in D.C. was known to have featured live penguins in a window display.The exhibit follows the research of curator William Bird who examined the history of holiday displays from the early 20th century in a companion book.It will be on display through the holiday season and much of the next year.FOX 5's Holly Morris visited and has more.Read More

You may have seen the heart-breaking photos of polar bears marooned on ever-diminishing sheets of ice. Polar bears have the unfortunate distinction of being the first animal to be listed as endangered due to climate change. They may be the first, but they certainly won't be the last animals to suffer the effects of c...limate change. Conservationist and animal advocate Jeff Corwin has a new book out called "100 Heartbeats” and joined us in studio.Read More

i have some news for you, i grown up in d.c in the sixty when the city burned down,i was taken from my mother put into jr.village, then sent to a all girls home in nws dc, then put in to a foster home. i looked for my parents for years because i never saw there,s faces, i went on the internet with just my birth certifi...cate, i located my father, but he died, three years before, i was born on post, fort bragg n.c, the military sent me a certification of military service, telling me that the man i located was my father.Read More