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Kentucky · KentuckyFrontier Nursing Service (FNS) dispatched horseback-riding nurse-midwives to patients in Kentucky's rural mountains. Couriers' duties included fetching patients from cabins, weighing babies, delivering medicine, cleaning saddles and bridles, and escorting any guests who rode between FNS outposts.See the Story
Why Debutantes Volunteered to Be Horse-Riding Couriers in Rural Kentucky
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Can A.I. Make Beer Taste Better? Scientists Test a Model That Recommends New Flavors
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BaseballJohn Thorn is perhaps the most knowledgeable historian of our national pastime. Thorn was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1947. He grew up rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers, largely because of Jackie Robinson. Thorn himself has written, edited or anthologized several dozen books.See the Story
How Baseball’s Official Historian Dug Up the Game’s Unknown Origins
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ArchaeologyThe Mexican government has acquired three illustrated Aztec codices from the late 16th to early 17th centuries. The newly purchased documents, known as the Codices of San Andr�s Tetepilco, are written in Spanish and the Indigenous Nahuatl language. One of them provides an account of the founding of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City.See the Story
Mexican Government Acquires Rare Centuries-Old Aztec Manuscripts
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Baltimore, MD · BaltimoreThe Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed around 1:40 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday after being hit by a cargo ship. Officials believe that eight people assigned to a construction crew on the bridge fell into the Patapsco River. Between 1960 and 2015, 35 major bridges around the world collapsed due to ship or barge collisions, killing a collective 342 people.See the Story
Seven of the Worst Bridge Disasters in World History
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Florida, United States · FloridaHMS Tyger ran aground off the Florida Keys in 1742 during a war between Britain and Spain. The ship's remains were first found in 1993 off the coast of Garden Key. Researchers found five coral-coated cannons some 1,500 feet from the ship.See the Story
Sunken British Warship That Left Crew Marooned for 66 Days Has Been Identified
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The Thrills of Rediscovering Ancient Greece While Touring Modern Athens
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Hanga Roa · Hanga RoaLittle Sophora toromiro, is no longer present on Rapa Nui, the Pacific island where it evolved. The tree is a member of a small diaspora, with only a handful surviving in about a dozen different public and private botanical gardens around the world. This is a story of survival, persistence and, perhaps in some ways, dumb luck.See the Story
How Rapa Nui Lost a Tree, Only to Have It Sprout Up Elsewhere
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