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Articles by Edward Dolnick
La historia desconocida de los arqueólogos espías que ayudaron a vencer a los nazis en Atenas
El 27 de abril de 1941, las tropas alemanas entraron en Atenas. “La capital cae en manos de los conquistadores”, declaró un locutor de radio. “Muy pronto, la emisora de Atenas dejará de ser griega. Será alemana y transmitirá mentiras”. Grecia sufriría gravemente durante la ocupación: un asombroso 5 por ciento de la población moriría, y ver la cuna de la democracia en manos nazis resultó doloroso.
Mission Accomplished: Kill the Nazis, Save the Statues
Mission Accomplished: Kill the Nazis, Save the Statues In “The American School of Spies,” Stephan Talty tells the story of the desperate struggle to preserve antiquities during World War II.
Mission Accomplished: Kill the Nazis, Save the Statues
In “The American School of Spies,” Stephan Talty tells the story of the desperate struggle to preserve antiquities during World War II. THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF SPIES: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece, by Stephan Talty On April 27, 1941, German troops …
Giants’ Bones? Fossilized Testicles? How Humans Reacted to the Discovery of Dinosaurs
For our ancestors in the early 1800s, the discovery of bones and footprints was thrilling, bewildering news. This was not just another scientific discovery, like the sighting of a new moon around a distant planet. This was proof of life where no one had ever imagined it. Article continues after advertisement Think of modern-day astronomers who believe that we on Earth are not alone. For decades they have turned their telescopes to the heavens, searching for signals in an endless void.
Review: ‘River of the Gods,’ by Candice Millard
Book Review|Exploration at the Edge of Disaster https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/books/review/river-of-the-gods-candice-millard.html Nonfiction “River of the Gods” is a fast-paced tale of the absurdly dangerous quest by two friends turned enemies to solve the geographic riddle of their era. Richard Burton (left) and John Speke in an engraving by Emile-Antoine Bayard (1837-1891).Credit...
The cracking of the Rosetta Stone
Edward Dolnick is a veteran science writer, the author of several acclaimed works of nonfiction, and one of my favorite storytellers. He is that rarest of human beings today: a person who never runs out of questions.
Review: 'The Writing of the Gods,' by Edward Dolnick
Ancient Egypt has persisted in the popular imagination for more than 400 years, from Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" to Lawrence Kasdan's "Raiders of the Lost Ark." And it's easy to see why, starting with the almost unfathomable scale of its pyramids and other monuments, many of which are still standing thousands and thousands of years after they were built.
The Weekender
Amid scandals, accusations and calls for his resignation, the New York governor seems determined to prove that the instincts that have gotten him into trouble can get him out of it too.
One Man’s Attempt to Solve a Mystery at the Top of Mount Everest
Nonfiction April 13, 2021, 10:16 a.m. ET THE THIRD POLE Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest By Mark Synnott This file photo dated 1909 shows British mountain climber George Mallory, who died while scaling Mount Everest in 1924, on the Moine ridge of the Aiguille Verte mountain in France.Credit...Herald/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images In 1924, no one had ever set foot atop Mount Everest, the highest spot on Earth. By then, America had reached the North Pole.
Longitude
An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, Longitude is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd. It is also a captivating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking. During the great ages of exploration, "the longitude problem" was the gravest of all scientific challenges. Lacking the ability to determine their longitude, sailors were literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land.
Books That Taught Me The History I Never Knew - from Valley Girl Views
Books That Taught Me The History I Never Knew You can find the full article HERE: I truly believe that we learn more through stories than from classrooms - that a comprehensive education can be acquired simply through access to a good library. These books certainly taught me more history than I ever learned in a classroom.
When America’s Love of the Open Frontier Hit a Wall
Nonfiction Image W.H. Jackson’s “Barlow Cutoff” in Oregon. March 15, 2019 THE END OF THE MYTH From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America By Greg Grandin In a speech in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt reminded a San Francisco audience of what had always distinguished the United States from other nations since its earliest days.
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Why It Took Scientists So Long to Figure Out Where Babies Come From
Until 1875, no one in the world knew where babies come from. Ordinary people didn’t know, and neither did the scientists who helped shape the modern world. Leonardo da Vinci didn’t know. Galileo didn’t know. Isaac Newton didn’t know. They knew, that is, that men and women have sex and as a result, sometimes, babies, but they did not know how those babies were created.
The Story of the Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From
This is an excerpt from The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks’ Teeth to Frogs’ Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From. Until 1875, no one in the world knew where babies come from. Ordinary people didn’t know, and neither did the scientists who helped shape the modern world. Leonardo da Vinci didn’t know, Galileo didn’t know, Isaac Newton didn’t know.
Putting Cowboys - and Their Industry - in True Historical Context
The easy-to-overlook people in that scene were the men on horseback toiling to herd the cattle along. These were cowboys, to this day among the reigning American icons. Christopher Knowlton’s aim in “Cattle Kingdom” is to place those emblems of freedom, and their whole industry, in its true context. In their heyday, cowboys numbered 40,000. Nearly all were young and reckless, which was fortunate. “The job of a cowboy entailed an astonishing number of ways to get hurt or killed,” Knowlton writes.
Adventurers - NYTimes.com
NEMESIS One Man and the Battle for Rio By Misha Glenny 293 pp. Knopf, $27.95. In a long and impressive journalistic career, Glenny has made a specialty of the territory where violence and complexity meet. After years covering the Balkans (which, in the famous aphorism, “produce more history than they can consume locally”), he moved on to international organized crime. Now he has turned to drugs and corruption in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
Many years ago, I can remember that the weatherman on television would give us a forecast for the next day, and he'd make his blunt prediction that it was going to rain or shine. That was it; you had his prediction, and he turned out either to be wrong or right. A couple of decades ago, this changed, and the weatherman started giving us percentage chances of rain.
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