National Geographic History - 01 e 02.2022

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 1 FROM THE EDITOR Amy Briggs, Executive Editor The beautiful face gracing our cover is one of the wo ...

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8 PROFILES Ellen Craft and her husband’s daring escape from slavery happened in broad daylight, thanks to her ability to disguis ...

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THE DISCOVERY of the ancient mint at Guanzhuang has yielded both spade coins and the clay molds used to make them. To produce su ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 7 were invented. Even these re- cent findings in China have not settled arguments about which civili ...

PROFILES 8 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 Ellen Craft, the Appearance of Freedom Born into slavery, Ellen Craft and her husband, William, ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 9 he was allowed to keep a small portion of his wages for himself. Though Ellen and William were con ...

Trains, Carriages, and Boats On December 21, 1848, Ellen and William began their journey. After first obtaining passes to leave ...

Richmond, Virginia. When they reached Baltimore, Maryland, on December 24, 1848, the couple was one stop away from freedom in Pe ...

12 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 NATURAL HISTORY whose “flipped” orientation allows it to position its mouth close to the water’s surfac ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 13 Catfish were depicted on several sig- nificant tomb reliefs from this early period. One of the mo ...

INVENTIONS The Fork: A New Way to Set the Table Introduced to Europe from medieval Byzantium, the fork was initially scorned as ...

In the late 11th century, the Bishop of Ostia, St. Peter Damian, condemned the fork. He wrote of a Byzantine princess who travel ...

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WORK OF ART Some scholars such as Geoffrey Mc- Cafferty, professor emeritus of archae- ology at the University of Calgary, have ...

OF THE STONE AGE EDITORS OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Made from stone, bone, and ivory, more than 200 Paleolithic figurines of female ...