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Sunday night, Colin Firth has a good chance of winning his first Oscar for his role as King George VI. While The King's Speech is not yet available on DVD, you can rent A Single Man and watch Firth's Oscar-nominated performance from last year.

Twenty-five volunteers gathered in the auditorium of the Botanical Center on a recent Wednesday afternoon for a lecture on plant anatomy. A slide of the apical meristem—the growing tip of the shoot

If you're not sure what alchemy is, don't look it up in the dictionary. Come to Bruce Moran's lecture in Friends' Hall, where he'll explain it with some concrete examples from the 16th and 17th centuries.

It's hard for many people to get past the familiar image of George Washington that appears on the dollar bill. Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) painted several iconic portraits of our first president, some of which were used in engravings

Abraham Lincoln never set foot in California, but the Huntington Library has become one of the premier repositories of Lincolnian—manuscripts, books, letters, and ephemera by and about our 16th president. In 1914, Henry Huntington purchased the collection of William H. Lambert, a Philadelphia lawyer who was known as one of the "Big Five" collectors of Lincoln memorabilia.

Next month, a new exhibition featuring the work of California sculptor John Frame opens at The Huntington. "Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame" will include sculptural figures

Looking for the perfect place to woo your sweetheart? There's no need to look any further than The Huntington. Whether your idea of a perfect date is discussing the romance of Shakespeare's plays, sipping a cup of jasmine tea overlooking a Chinese lake

When many parts of the country are blanketed by snow, the winter landscape at The Huntington is covered with camellias. The Camellia Collection includes nearly 80 different species