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Why Juneteenth, the U.S.'s Second Independence Day, Is a Federal Holiday
Smithsonian Magazine· 11 hours agoJuneteenth quickly gained traction across the country, with 59 percent of American adults reporting that they knew “a lot” or “some” about the holiday in 2022, up from 37 percent in 2021, according ...
Take a Moment to Laugh at These American Movies Mistranslated in Other Languages
MediaFeed via AOL· 6 days agoWhat draws audiences in Omaha may not get the same result in Beijing, so foreign distributors must...
An Ailing Franz Kafka Curses Writer's Block in This Handwritten Letter to a Friend
Smithsonian Magazine· 1 day agoOne of Franz Kafka’s characteristic lamentations of writer’s block, captured in a handwritten letter from a sanatorium, is heading to the auction block. Scrawled in neat German cursive, the ...
One Of The World’s Oldest Games May Have Not Been Invented In Ancient Egypt After All
IFLScience· 3 days agoThe game of "58 Holes" is one of the oldest games in the world. According to traditional interpretations, the board game first appeared in ancient Egypt during the second millennium BCE, but ...
32 unusual medical cases
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe dancing plague A copperplate engraving based on a drawing of one of the choreomania events. (Image credit: Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Public domain,...
Meet the Athletes Who Became Champion Inventors
Smithsonian Magazine· 1 day agoSpecifically, what motivates so many athletes to becomes sports inventors? By sharing the stories of several sports inventors, we hope the exhibition inspires our visitors to see themselves ...
