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Sent: 17 June 2019 18:39
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Subject: National Geographic History: Earliest evidence for cannabis consumption, Rome's richest man, and Scotland's pre-Stonehenge past
Plus: Why Beethoven Turned on Napoleon
In this edition: Man-made islands in Scotland are older than Stonehenge, Crassus' greed for glory dooms him, and archaeologists along the Silk Road find the world's oldest cannabis consumption. | | |
| PHOTOGRAPH BY C. MURRAY | |
| A study of crannogs in Scotland's Outer Hebrides reveals some were built more than 3,000 years earlier than previously thought. But what purpose did they serve? | | |
| On June 17, 1631, Mughal Empress Mumtaz Mahal died in childbirth. Her grief-stricken husband, Emperor Shah Jahan, built the Taj Mahal in her memory. | |
| PHOTOGRAPH BY H. LEWANDOWSKI/RMN-GRAND PALAIS; SCHÖFMANN/AGE FOTOSTOCK | |
| Crassus may have had the most wealth but his greed for military glory destroyed him in the last days of the Roman Republic. | | |
| On June 19, 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrives at New York Harbor after a journey from France. | |
| Photograph by Bridgeman/ACI | |
| Beethoven planned to dedicate his Third Symphony to Napoleon—before the French revolutionary crowned himself emperor. | | |
| PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY PATRICK DALY | |
| Traces of potent pot were identified in 2,500-year-old wooden artifacts buried with people who lived along the Silk Road in China. | | |
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