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The April 1926 issue of Amazing Stories hit newsstands in March of that year. The cover art by Frank R. Paul illustrated the Jules Verne tale "Off On a Comet."

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Before sci-fi was everywhere, this pioneering magazine championed 'scientifiction'

Chris Klimek

The name didn't stick. The fan communities did.

Denay Wilkerson and her son Cairo, 2, ride the newly restored Smithsonian National Carousel on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

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Decades-old, newly restored Smithsonian carousel reopens — to children's delight

Elizabeth Blair

The carousel was first desegregated when part of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park outside Baltimore in 1963. It was moved to the National Mall after the park closed.

Dacian gold items, a 2,500-year-old helmet and wristbands, stolen from a museum in the Netherlands and then recovered by Dutch authorities, are presented during a press conference after being returned, at the National Museum of Romanian History, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, April 21, 2026.

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Priceless 2,500-year-old golden helmet returned to Romania after Dutch museum raid

The Associated Press

The ornate Cotofenesti helmet, which was stolen in January 2025 while on loan to a Dutch museum, was recovered last month.

Nyla Harris (left) and Helga Melmed, a Holocaust survivor.

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A Sarasota theatre project pairs teens with Holocaust survivors and Black elders

Kerry Sheridan

The next performance of Impact Theatre is Tuesday, April 14, at 7 p.m. at The Ora, Morganroth Event Center, at the Jewish Federation in Sarasota on 580 McIntosh Road.

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On this day, Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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Contralto Marian Anderson stands with a bouquet of roses presented to her by Black high school cadets who served as ushers at a mural presentation ceremony in 1943. It was to commemorate her 1939 concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday.

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On this day, April 9, 2026

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Violin on a black background with spot light.

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On this Day, April 8, 2026

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Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. ET on April 6 during the Artemis II crew's flyby of the moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upward during the crater's formation.

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Photos: NASA releases first images from moon flyby

NPR Staff

During the mission's loop around the moon, the crew took geological observations of places of interest on the lunar surface using their own eyes and snapping thousands of photos of the surface.

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Artemis II astronauts swung by the moon, broke an Apollo record, and saw an eclipse

Brendan Byrne

The NASA moon mission completed several key milestones as its crew looped around the lunar body. It's expected to splash down on Earth on Friday.

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'Art can live through ages and centuries': How musicians are honoring composers who died in the Holocaust

Susan Giles Wantuck

Pianist Dimitri Malignan and Soprano Lily Arbisser are sharing music of composers who died in the Holocaust.