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Photo: Pretty Frog, But Don’t Touch! The poison dart frog, above, is found in the Amazon rainforests of Central and South America. Sure, it’s pretty, but this little frog who measures between less than an inch and two inches can actually take down a small animal with its powerful toxin. What’s your favorite Amazonian a...nimal?
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Iditarod: Q&A with Rich Montagna. Rich Montagna is a professional photographer and tour guide with more than 30 years experience exploring and photographing the Alaskan frontier. What’s your favorite snowy pasttime? http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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Smithsonian Journeys offers educational tours for a wide range of interests. Our tours delve into history, culture, and the arts.
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Video: The Bottom of the World. For many of us, Antarctica is pinnacle of world travel. We hope we’ll get to Antarctica one day, and we hope that it will look as it has for centuries. Would you live in Antarctica? http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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World Heritage: Iceland. Thingvellir National Park, located in southwestern Iceland, is the original location of the Iceland’s open-air parliament, first established by settlers from Scandanavia and the British Isles in 930 A.D. What do you like about Iceland? http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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Smithsonian Journeys offers educational tours for a wide range of interests. Our tours delve into history, culture, and the arts.
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Video: Was Dracula a woman? It’s not often that vampires and women’s issues mix, but our Halloween video manages somehow. After all these years, it turns out that Dracula might have been a woman. What are you going to be for Halloween? http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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SI Research Notes: Taxidermy. The secret to a lifelike taxidermy mount is finding just the right supporting structure and parts – - from the perfect eyeball to an accurate head shape. A selection of commercially available glass and plastic eyes, ears, and tongues, represent just a few of the products that taxidermists... use to create mounts. Ever been fooled by really good taxidermy? http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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Smithsonian Journeys offers educational tours for a wide range of interests. Our tours delve into history, culture, and the arts.
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Photo: Don’t Stay Home for Christmas….…spend it in Canterbury with us instead. The ancient cathedral city of Canterbury, England, really comes to life at the holidays. http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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Smithsonian Journeys offers educational tours for a wide range of interests. Our tours delve into history, culture, and the arts.
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A few words with Study Leader Arthur Kaplan. Kaplan has more than 20 years of experience in the opera field, lecturing for major opera companies in this country and leading groups of opera fans to France, Italy, and across the US. What’s your favorite opera and why? http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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Smithsonian Journeys offers educational tours for a wide range of interests. Our tours delve into history, culture, and the arts.
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Video: Optical Illusions at the Parthenon. Who knew? Ancient Greek architects might have been on to something when they built the Parthenon with subtle curves and without right angles. Some scholars argue that these features were intended to counter the brain’s tendency to see optical illusions. What did you think of ...this video? Do you know of other architects using optical illusions? http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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Q & A With Study Leader Dana Sachs. Sachs is Study Leader on our 2010 Journey Through Vietnam. What do you want to see in Vietnam? http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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Smithsonian Journeys offers educational tours for a wide range of interests. Our tours delve into history, culture, and the arts.
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World Heritage: China’s Great Wall. My first glimpse of the Great Wall was through a chilly gray mist early one fall morning. Standing on the ramparts gazing at the vast expanse of parched land beyond, it was easy to imagine the concern of Chinese rulers with destruction of their sophisticated culture by hordes of mou...nted warriors they regarded as barbarians. http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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Smithsonian Journeys offers educational tours for a wide range of interests. Our tours delve into history, culture, and the arts.
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Q & A on Guatemala. Dr. Thomas Garrison is a Study Leader on our new 2010 Guatemala tours. Here he talks to us about his work there. http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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Smithsonian Journeys offers educational tours for a wide range of interests. Our tours delve into history, culture, and the arts.
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Video: Terra-Cotta Warriors. Part of a monumental necropolis dedicated to China’s first emporer, the Terra-Cotta Warriors were rediscovered in 1974 by Chinese farmers digging a well. What would you take with you to the afterlife, whatever form it may take? http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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World Heritage: Morocco. Visit just once and it becomes clear why the ksar, or fortified city, of Ait-Ben-Haddou was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. What is the most striking contrast of ancient and modern that you’ve seen?http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/
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Smithsonian Journeys offers educational tours for a wide range of interests. Our tours delve into history, culture, and the arts.
