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The Journey of My Ancestors: Tracing the Iranian People Through Time
From the Elamites to the 1979 revolution: a personal journey through 4,000 years of Iranian history, sparked by a DNA haplogroup result.
By Maya Sharma||3 min read
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From Spanish Flu to COVID-19
The 1918 'influenza escape communities' — Yerba Buena Island, Princeton, Bryn Mawr — kept deaths near zero with masks, isolation, and distance.
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The 1957 Pandemic — The Asian Flu
The 1957 Asian Flu (H2N2) killed about 1.1 million people worldwide — and microbiologist Maurice Hilleman raced to get a vaccine ready before fall.
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Typhoid Mary
Mary Mallon, a cook who never fell ill, spread typhoid through wealthy New York households — and spent 23 years in forced quarantine on North Brother Island.
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The Spanish Flu: 1918
We don’t know where it started – but it most likely started in Europe or Asia. However – it spread all around the world – taking 50,000,000 people’s lives.
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Interesting
Houses Built Out of Pure Spite
Spite houses — homes built to annoy a neighbor — are architecture's pettiest subgenre. From Boston's Skinny House to a spite tower on Plum Island, a tour of
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Health & Spirituality
The Real Face of Jesus
Forensic artist Richard Neave reconstructed Jesus with dark skin, dark eyes, and short curly hair — nothing like the fair-skinned figure in Western art.
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