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With the recent death of Patrick Collinson, Regius Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cambridge, scholarship on the social and political history of early modern England will be much diminished. See his obituary on the website of the Daily Telegraph.

Orchid fanciers will be making a beeline for The Huntington this weekend (starting today!) for the annual Southland Orchid Show and Sale, where exhibitors from local orchid societies are displaying their best blooms for the benefit of judges and the public alike.

Another post in a series about Mr. Huntington's Garden by the botanical director of The Huntington.

Philip Connors spends long stretches of every spring and summer alone, on top of a lookout tower in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, scanning the horizon for signs of smoke. In his book Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout, he records the patterns 

Just four years after the Wright brothers' famed first flight at Kitty Hawk, a man in the Sierra foothills of California built a contraption that resembled an airplane. Unlike Orville and Wilbur, Lyman Gilmore Jr. never found success

Ask Frances Dolan if she believes in witches and she'll likely tell you you're asking the wrong question. "I'm more interested in how people come to believe what they believe."

If you're strolling through the Huntington Art Gallery during the next few months, look for a visiting Spanish nobleman up on the second floor. An imposing portrait of Vicente Maria de Vera de Aragon, Duque de la Roca (ca. 1795) by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is on temporary loan

In 2008, three art curators from The Huntington paid a visit to the house of Sam Maloof in Alta Loma, Calif., which had expanded in 1994 from a home to a nonprofit cultural center called the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts.