National Geographic History - USA (2022-03 & 2022-04)

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 1 FROM THE EDITOR Amy Briggs, Executive Editor Covering more than 150 square miles, the Angkor compl ...

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6 NEWS A new study of footprints in New Mexico dates them to the Ice Age, rolling back the arrival of humans in North America to ...

EXECUTIVE EDITOR AMY E. BRIGGS Deputy Editor JULIUS PURCELL Editorial Consultants JOSEP MARIA CASALS (Managing Editor, Historia ...

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NEWS astounding: They could be the oldest evidence of human set- tlement in North America. Seeds of Proof Analysis of the footpr ...

aquatic plant (Ruppia cirrhosa) were preserved above and be- low one set of the footprints. Scientists carbon-dated them to at l ...

8 MARCH/APRIL 2022 PROFILES Ada Lovelace, Programming Pioneer Born to a mathematician and a Romantic poet, Ada Lovelace combined ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 9 unchecked imagination could bring out the influence of Ada’s absentee father, the poet George Gord ...

10 MARCH/APRIL 2022 PROFILES Babbage. On an evening together in 1834, Babbage explained to Ada and her moth- er an idea he had f ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 11 Lovelace explained that the machine would function similarly to the Jac- quard loom—an invention ...

SNAPSHOTS Pizza Margherita The iconic Neapolitan dish was allegedly named for Queen Margherita of Italy after she sampled it in ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 13 way. According to recent research, how- ever, the story is not only just that, a sto- ry, but one ...

14 MARCH/APRIL 2022 his behalf—a ploy to obtain a sample of Dreyfus’s handwriting without arous- ing any suspicion. After examin ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 15 MILESTONES crosshairs. First, he was from Alsace, a German-speaking French province that had been ...

MILESTONES it came from the German ambassador. It was the draft of a letter addressed to a French officer, Ferdinand Esterhazy. ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 17 France. Zola was sentenced to jail for libel but fled to England. Under renewed scrutiny, the lie ...

DAGGERS DR AWN Before horrified onlookers, assassins begin attacking Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 b.c., in a circa 1805 paintin ...