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February 12, 2020

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How Two 1950s Kids Playing on the Railroad Tracks Found a National Treasure

George Washington Saw a Future for America: Mules

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Charles Darwin’s Publisher Didn’t Believe in Evolution, but Sold His Revolutionary Book Anyway

Dozens of Historic Mexican Cookbooks Are Now Available Online

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Upcoming Planet Word Museum Celebrates Language—and Is Slated to Be Talk of the Town

Preliminary Census Documents Antarctica’s Chinstrap Penguins in Sharp Decline

Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass Honored With Statues in Maryland State House

After an 8,700-Mile Journey, an Endangered Gray Wolf Is Found Dead

Mexico City Is Proposing to Build One of the World’s Largest Urban Parks

On this day in 1914, what would have been Abraham Lincoln’s 105th birthday, construction began on the Lincoln Memorial. Sculptor Daniel Chester French used plaster casts of Abraham Lincoln’s hands and face as a model for the statue of Lincoln inside the monument. Learn more about the creation of this D.C. landmark.

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