Banners depicting hometown heroes adorn the streets of Westminster in time for Memorial Day, honoring those who served in the ...

The Fourth of July is red, white and blue, for obvious reasons. Halloween has pumpkin orange, and the Thanksgiving table tends to be festooned in the brown and red colors of the harvest season.

You know those little blue-and-white bowls some Chinese restaurants use for serving hot-and-sour soup -- clanky, cheap little things? The objects on display at the Smithsonian Institution's Freer ...