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A lone deer stands on a windswept mountain. Though the setting is fresh with spring blooms, he looks still -- almost pensive, like the human figures overwhelmed by nature in so many Romantic paintings. It's the work of Tyrus Wong, a Chinese immigrant and WPA artist whose work served as the aesthetic inspiration for Walt Disney's second feature-length animated film, "Bambi." The somber...

For nature fiends, a glimpse of a rare Black Rhino or an endangered Sumatran Orangutan is the stuff dreams are made of. For lovers of the wild terrain that is the Internet, however, we get our kicks from seeing Prayer Hands IRL. May we introduce you to #EmojisInTheWild, the hashtag that's taking Instagram by storm, tagging rare shots of the elusive Eggplant, the mysterious Twin Ballerinas...

Here is set of documentaries to stream on Netflix for some educational programming in between your "Gilmore Girls" and "Friends" marathons. Please binge-watch accordingly. "Fed Up" "Fed Up" is as infuriating as it is eye-opening. Advocacy documentaries tend to be a bit short-sighted, reveling in their self-righteousness, but director Stephanie Soechtig has more than enough facts to avoid...

Would you go to a movie alone? For some people, the question elicits a quick and easy nod — of course! Why not? For others, panic: The idea of sitting there, all alone, surrounded by people who aren't alone is humiliating. Everyone has different internal guidelines for solo outings, and these guidelines are often marked by a fair degree of irrationality. I've never been able to work up...

The giant "supervolcano" that lies beneath Yellowstone National Park is hiding a deep secret: a massive chamber containing enough hot, partly molten rock to fill the Grand Canyon more than 11 times over. The newfound chamber (see below) sits 12 to 28 miles beneath the supervolcano and is four times bigger than a shallower chamber above it that scientists already knew about. "For the first...

LONDON (AP) — The desperate effort to save lives in earthquake-ravaged Nepal intensified Monday as aid flights arrived carrying emergency medical teams, search-and-rescue equipment and tarps for shelter. Governments, charities and development agencies also announced broader plans for further help to arrive in the coming days and weeks. Priority at the damaged international airport in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu,...

PARIS (AP) — China now boasts more land dedicated to wine-making vineyards than France as it tries to satisfy a rapid rise in local demand. China's vineyards grew to 800,000 hectares (1.9 million acres) last year, putting it behind No. 1 grower Spain but ahead of France. Because its production is less effective than more established wine-making countries, China's output is only the seventh-biggest, according to...

CILACAP, Indonesia, April 28 (Reuters) - Nine drug traffickers held emotional farewell meetings with their families at an Indonesian prison on Tuesday, after Jakarta rejected last-ditch pleas from around the world for clemency and ordered their mass execution to proceed within hours. "I won't see him again," said Raji Sukumaran, the mother of an Australian who will go before a firing squad...

The 2015 Tony Nominations are here, thanks to announcers Bruce Willis and Mary-Louise Parker, who woke up before 8:30 a.m. on a Tuesday morning to read off this season's theater honorees. The list of plays, musicals, actors, directors, designers and composers in the running for a shiny Tony award this year run the gamut of expected -- the critically acclaimed musical "Fun Home" and the Shakespeare favorite "Wolf...