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How Baseball’s Official Historian Dug Up the Game’s Unknown Origins | History| Smithsonian Magazine

A lifelong passion for the national pastime led John Thorn to redefine the sport's relationship with statistics and reveal the truth behind its earliest days

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Between the 1920s and 1940s, wealthy young women signed up to run errands and carry messages for the Frontier Nursing Service, whose nurse-midwives provided care to patients in hard-to-reach areas

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This Russian Noblewoman, Beloved by Catherine the Great and Benjamin Franklin, Embodied the Age of Enlightenment | History | Smithsonian Magazine

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The Moroccan Sultan Who Protected His Country's Jews During World War II | History| Smithsonian Magazine

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The Forgotten Sisters Behind 'Happy Birthday to You' | History| Smithsonian Magazine

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World War II 'Rumor Clinics' Helped America Battle Wild Gossip | History | Smithsonian Magazine

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Making 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls Readable Again | History| Smithsonian Magazine

'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' Demonstrates the Limits of Holocaust Fiction | History | Smithsonian Magazine

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The 18th-Century Baron Who Lent His Name to Munchausen Syndrome | History | Smithsonian Magazine

To Help the Allied War Effort, These Scientists Got Drunk on Nitrogen | History | Smithsonian Magazine

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The Real History Behind Apple TV+'s 'Manhunt' and the Search for Abraham Lincoln's Killer | History | Smithsonian Magazine

This Russian Noblewoman, Beloved by Catherine the Great and Benjamin Franklin, Embodied the Age of Enlightenment | History | Smithsonian Magazine

The Moroccan Sultan Who Protected His Country's Jews During World War II | History| Smithsonian Magazine

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