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DNA Reveals the Identity of a Teenager Who Died in the Revolutionary War, Cracking a Nearly 250-Year-Old Cold Case
57+ min ago (888+ words) History | July 10, 2026 12: 07 p. m. John Pumphrey was still a boy when he enlisted in the Continental Army in 1777. After archaeologists discovered his remains, a genetic genealogy analysis identified 20, 000 DNA matches for living relatives Ellen Wexler | Writer and Special Projects Editor The boy…...
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After World War II, This German Artist Turned the Art World Upside Down'Literally, by Inverting His Paintings
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (539+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine In East Berlin in 1956, an 18-year-old upstart named Hans-Georg Bruno Kern found an art school requirement utterly disagreeable. While his classmates put in time working at an industrial site'a mandatory duty under East Germany's communist regime'he…...