This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... the level of vitriol in the public sphere, especially online, is substantial. But that’s not because social ...

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This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town fathers of Florence finally addressed a monumental problem they’d been ignoring for decades ...

This story appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. The eagle is a national symbol, not just for Americans, but for Germans like me and many other people too ...

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