National Geographic History - USA (2022-05 & 2022-06)

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I n the early 1930s watch manufacturers took a clue from Henry Ford’s favorite quote concerning his automobiles, “You can have a ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 1 FROM THE EDITOR Amy Briggs, Executive Editor Mad scientists are fun fictional characters—visionari ...

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6 NEWS A sword found off Israel’s shores tells the tale of crusaders and castles at a time when Muslims and Christians battled t ...

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NEWS Antiquities Authority (IAA) enough so that they could draw some conclusions. About 10 similar swords have been recovered fr ...

THE ATLIT SWORD ON THE SEABED, PHOTOGRAPHED BY ITS DISCOVERER, DIVER SHLOMI KATZIN SHLOMI KATZIN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 7 C ...

8 MAY/JUNE 2022 PROFILES Wong Kim Ark, Face of U.S. Citizenship Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Wong Kim Ark took ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 9 Born in the U.S.A. Wong Kim Ark was born in San Fran- cisco, California, in either 1871 or 1873. H ...

10 MAY/JUNE 2022 PROFILES before his son was born. Living in the United States while having family back in China was not uncommo ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 11 meaning that his rights as a citizen, granted to him by jus soli (Latin for “right of the soil”), ...

ALBRECHT DÜRER (1513) 12 MAY/JUNE 2022 WORK OF ART M aster of oil and watercol- or painting as well as ink drawing, German artis ...

KNIGHT, DEATH, AND THE DEVIL Considered one of the most technically brilliant and expressive pieces of printmaking, this copperp ...

ENIGMAS 14 MAY/JUNE 2022 I n 1868 the Museum of Za- greb in Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, acquired an Egyp- ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 15 them (including English) are derived from Indo-European tongues that arrived in Eu- rope thousand ...

ENIGMAS Body of Evidence Before being torn into ban- dages, the Linen Book of Za- greb was a sheet about 11 feet long covered wi ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 17 used in the mummification process, but in the 1930s, ad- vances in infrared photogra- phy allowed ...

NARMER FIRST PHARAOH OF EGYPT FOUNDER OF A DYNASTY The Narmer Palette, from circa 3100 b.c., depicts the king, who wears the red ...