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Link structure
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Server
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External factors
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File size
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1579
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Smithsonian Magazine: Explore History, Science, Arts & Culture
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Discover the latest stories in history, archaeology, science, arts and culture from one of the top news magazines. Smithsonian Magazine brings you compelling, in-depth articles every day.
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Celebrate Man’s Best Friend With These 15 Photographs of Good Dogs
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H2 America’s 250th Anniversary
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H3 A Man Bought This Colorful Illustration of a Sultan for £150. It Turned Out to Be a Salvador Dalí Original That Could Sell for $40,000
H3 Smithsonian Magazine Uncover Past Secrets
H3 The Potato May Have Evolved From a Tomato Ancestor Nine Million Years Ago, Genetic Study Suggests
H3 Centuries-Old Hawaiian Petroglyphs Emerge From the Sand for the First Time in Nine Years
H3 For the First Time in Nearly a Century, Adult Winter-Run Chinook Salmon Are Swimming in California’s McCloud River
H3 24 Billion Gallons of Water Burst Through Greenland’s Ice Sheet From a Hidden Lake in 2014. Scientists Just Pieced Together What Happened
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H3 From Playful Otters to Pint-Size Owls, These Eight Awesome Animals Call the Chesapeake Bay Home
H3 In Belize, Maya Descendants Are Reviving an Ancient, Sacred Ballgame
H3 Can A.I. Help Revitalize Indigenous Languages?
H3 This Heroic Japanese Diplomat Defied His Government to Save Thousands of Jewish Refugees From the Holocaust
H3 Stay Up to Date
H3 What Would It Be Like to Live on an Ice Planet?
H3 A Triumphant Test Vehicle Is Celebrated in a New Gallery
H3 New DNA Monitoring Tool Enables Scientists to Identify Specific Animals by Their Feces
H3 Mutualism Under Pressure: New Research in Panama Shows a Plant’s Ability to Keep Its Defender Ants Happy
H3 How a Military Veteran Became a Museum Professional
H3 How to Build an Airplane in Seven Days
H3 How Leonardo da Vinci Represents the Connection Between Art and Science
H3 How Black Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives and Communities Through Quilts
H3 August at the National Museum of American History
H3 In Charleston, American College of the Building Arts Educates the Next Generation of Craftspeople
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H3 This Man Kept a Meticulous List of All 3,599 Books He’d Read Since 1962. When He Died, His Family Published It Online
H3 Physicists Superheated Gold to Hotter Than the Sun’s Surface and Disproved a 40-Year-Old Idea
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H3 This Forgotten Founding Father Hoped to ‘Die Up to My Knees in Blood’ in the Fight for American Independence. He Got His Wish
H3 Discover Patrick Henry’s Legacy, Beyond His Revolutionary ‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’ Speech
H3 These Daring Revolutionary-Era Artists Promoted the Patriot Cause From the Heart of Enemy Territory
H3 Three Crosses
H3 10 Fun Facts About Jellyfish
H3 The Ultimate Skywatching Guide for Every Season
H3 10 Enchanting Butterfly Facts Revealed!
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H3 An English Church Wants to Exhume the Skull of Thomas More, Tudor Statesman Beheaded by Henry VIII Nearly 500 Years Ago
H3 See a Stunningly Well-Preserved, 4,000-Year-Old Handprint Left Behind by an Ancient Egyptian Potter
H3 Meet Ten Tyrannosaurs That Came Before T. Rex, From Small, Feathery Creatures to 30-Foot-Long Bone-Crushers
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H3 Why Did a Large Harpy Eagle Attack an Adult Woman?
H3 Can a Medical Device Restore Your Balance?
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H3 How an Ancestral Peruvian Ceremony Is Saving the Once-Endangered Vicuña
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H3 A Rare Portrait of Maryland’s Medical Hero Was Rediscovered in a Mussels Joint
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H3 Amelia Earhart Made History in a Plane She Called Her ‘Little Red Bus.’ Here’s How It Became a Revered Museum Artifact and Hallowed Symbol
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