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Smithsonian (magazine)

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Smithsonian is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970. [1]

43 relations: Al Franken, Alan Lightman, Art Spiegelman, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Bill Nye, Dave Eggers, David Byrne, David Lynch, David McCullough, Edward Kramer Thompson, Elon Musk, Erin Brockovich, Frank Deford, Franz Lidz, Fred Armisen, Herbie Hancock, History, Jeff Bezos, Jeff Koons, Jill Lepore, Jim Romenesko, Jo Marchant, Jon Krakauer, Life (magazine), Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nathaniel Philbrick, Nature, OK Go, Paul Theroux, Penn Jillette, Poynter Institute, Richard Conniff, Rosanne Cash, Rubén Blades, Science, Sidney Dillon Ripley, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Colbert, Stephen Hawking, Susan Orlean, The arts, Washington, D.C..

Al Franken

Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American comedian, writer, producer, author, and politician who served as a United States Senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018.

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Alan Lightman

Alan Paige Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur.

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Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman (born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus.

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Aziz Ansari

Aziz Ismail Ansari (born February 23, 1983) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, and comedian.

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Bill Hader

William Thomas Hader Jr. (born June 7, 1978) is an American comedian, actor, voice actor, producer, and writer.

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Bill Nye

William Sanford Nye (born November 27, 1955), popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science communicator, television presenter, and mechanical engineer.

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.

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David Byrne

David Byrne (born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, artist, writer, actor, and filmmaker.

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David Lynch

David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer.

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David McCullough

David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer.

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Edward Kramer Thompson

Edward Kramer Thompson (January 15, 1907 – October 8, 1996) was an American writer and editor.

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Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is an American business magnate, investor and engineer.

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Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich (born Pattee; June 22, 1960) is an American legal clerk and environmental activist, who, despite her lack of formal education in the law, was instrumental in building a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) of California in 1993.

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Frank Deford

Benjamin Franklin Deford III (December 16, 1938 – May 28, 2017) was an American sportswriter and novelist From 1980 until his death in 2017, he was a regular sports commentator on NPR's Morning Edition radio program.

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Franz Lidz

Franz Lidz (born September 24, 1951) is an American writer, journalist and pro basketball executive.

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Fred Armisen

Fereydun Robert "Fred" Armisen (born December 4, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.

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History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.

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Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born Jorgensen; January 12, 1964) is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon, the world's largest online retailer.

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Jeff Koons

Jeffrey Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces.

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Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore (born August 27, 1966) is an American historian.

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Jim Romenesko

Jim Romenesko (born September 16, 1953) is an American journalist in Evanston, Illinois.

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Jo Marchant

Jo Marchant is a freelance journalist specializing in science and history.

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Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain climbing.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda (born January 16, 1980) is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor of Puerto Rican ancestry best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton. He co-wrote the songs for Disney's ''Moana'' soundtrack (2016) and is set to co-star in the upcoming film Mary Poppins Returns. Miranda's awards include a Pulitzer Prize, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and three Tony Awards. Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the musical In the Heights, which premiered on Broadway in 2008. For this work, he won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score, the show's cast album won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the show won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Miranda was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in the show's lead role. Miranda prepared Spanish translations used in the 2009 Broadway production of West Side Story and was co-composer and lyricist for Bring It On: The Musical, which played on Broadway in 2012. His television work includes recurring roles on The Electric Company (2009–2010) and Do No Harm (2013). He hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time in 2016 and earned his first Emmy award nomination for acting. Among other film work, Miranda contributed music and vocals for a scene in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Miranda is most celebrated for writing the book, music and lyrics for Hamilton: An American Musical, which has been acclaimed as a pop culture phenomenon since its Broadway premiere in August 2015. The show earned the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and was nominated for a record-setting 16 Tony Awards, of which it won 11, including Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book. For his performance in the lead role of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. The ''Hamilton'' cast recording spent ten weeks atop Billboards Top Rap Albums chart in 2015, while The Hamilton Mixtape, an album of covers of songs from the musical, developed by and featuring Miranda, reached number one on the Billboard 200 upon release in December 2016. Miranda has emerged as an influential political activist, particularly in the wake of Hurricane Maria's devastation in Puerto Rico, for which he raised $30 million for the rescue efforts.

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Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick (born June 11, 1956) is an American author and a member of the Philbrick literary family.

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Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe.

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OK Go

OK Go is an American rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, now based in Los Angeles, California.

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Paul Theroux

Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).

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Penn Jillette

Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American magician, juggler, comedian, musician, inventor, actor, filmmaker, television personality and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller.

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Poynter Institute

The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a non-profit school for journalism located in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Richard Conniff

Richard Conniff (born March 1, 1951) is an American non-fiction writer, specializing in human and animal behavior.

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Rosanne Cash

Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author.

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Rubén Blades

Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948), known professionally as Rubén Blades (but in Panama and within the family), is a Panamanian singer, songwriter, actor, musician, activist, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban, salsa, and Latin jazz genres.

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Science

R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.1, Chaps.1,2,&3.

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Sidney Dillon Ripley

Sidney Dillon Ripley II (September 20, 1913 – March 12, 2001) was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Stephen Colbert

Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, and television host.

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Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death.

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Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean (born October 31, 1955) is an American journalist and author.

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The arts

The arts refers to the theory and physical expression of creativity found in human societies and cultures.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_(magazine)

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