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Watching the Rose Parade was a New Year's tradition growing up. Granted, I usually saw it on television, even though I was just a few miles away from the parade route at my grandparents' house in La Cañada.

With 2016 right around the corner, we cast an eye back over a year marked by discovery and transformative change. Here are some of the remarkable stories we featured here on Verso. Early in the year, we reported on an amazing find—the discovery in our collections

While most of the country braces for freezing temperatures and snow, many people in Southern California welcome the arrival of winter as their favorite season. Nighttime temperatures rarely fall below freezing and daytime highs often nudge their way into the 70s.

For a period of decades spanning the late 19th century to well into the 20th century, Chinese immigrants faced huge obstacles entering the United States due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. The law, in effect from 1882 to 1943, was the first instituted to stop a particular ethnic group from immigrating to this country.

"What," you might ask, "is the work of contemporary artist Alex Israel doing in the Huntington Art Gallery, infiltrating the grand interiors of Henry and Arabella Huntington's former residence and supplanting beloved 18th-century artwork?"

Portraiture implies an interaction between the sitter and spectator. It often rehearses an interaction between two or more protagonists and regularly focuses on the interaction between the people represented and their surroundings.

With LOOK>>, we venture into our wide-ranging collections and bring out a single object to explore in a short video. In this piece, we look at an 18th-century printed fan.

In 1815, a surveyor named William Smith published a huge, 10-by-16-foot map of England, Wales, and part of Scotland titled A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales. Up until then, explorers had sketched fairly accurate maps