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History

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Keeping Cool

Keeping Cool in Cretaceous Australia and melting-pot Marseille

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The Strange Lives of Polar Dinosaurs

How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?

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December Anniversaries

Momentous or merely memorable

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Revolutionary Real Estate

Statesmen, soldiers and spies who made America and the way they lived

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Ike at D-Day

Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s defining moment comes to life in an excerpt from Michael Korda’s best-selling new biography

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Letters

Readers respond to the October issue

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Bones to Pick

Paleontologist William Hammer hunts dinosaur fossils in the Antarctic

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The Wall

As the Vietnam Memorial turns 25, we look back at a profile on its creator, Maya Lin

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Digging up Egypt’s Treasures

The ten most significant discoveries in the past 20 years

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Symbolically Speaking

A Q&A with hieroglyphs expert Janice Kamrin

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Understanding the Lasting Allure of the Rosetta Stone

An Egyptologist explains the importance of the artifact

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News Flash

Amenhotep III (a granite head from the temple complex is his best extant portrait) was succeeded by his son Akhenaten, who revolutionized Egypt's religion—temporarily.

Rebellious Son

Amenhotep III was succeeded by one of the first known monotheists

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From the Castle

Small World

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Abandoned Ship: The Mary Celeste

What really happened aboard the Mary Celeste? More than a century after her crew went missing, a scenario is emerging

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How Pan Am’s Founder Juan Trippe Turned Americans Into Frequent Fliers

This antique globe was once owned by the fabled airline executive, who ushered in modern air travel

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November Anniversaries

Momentous or merely memorable

David Halberstam in 1978

Consequential

Cold winters, hot jaguars and a night to remember

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Command Performance

With U.S. forces in Korea beleaguered and demoralized in 1950, American prestige and the future of South Korea hung in the balance

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Sitting Bull’s Legacy

The Lakota Sioux leader’s relics return to his only living descendants

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