A 13-year-old's Bronze Age discovery; the ‘day of infamy’ at Pearl Harbor; R.I.P. Bob Dole; the racier works of Louisa Mae Alcott
|  | Monday, December 6, 2021 | | | | |
| In today’s newsletter, R.I.P. Bob Dole; a 13-year-old's Bronze Age discovery; the ‘day of infamy’ at Pearl Harbor … and the racier works of Louisa Mae Alcott. | |
| By Debra Adams Simmons, Executive Editor, History & Culture
Americans packed airplanes for Thanksgiving—2.45 million people desperate to finally see family and friends flew out of a U.S. airport the Sunday after, the busiest travel day since the pandemic began. Theatergoers are cheering as Broadway reopens (Dear Evan Hansen and MJ the Musical begin this week), snapping up tickets as fast as they’re available.
Visions of a post-COVID normal dance in our head. Nearly two years into the pandemic, Berlin, home of the world’s most vibrant club scene, recently reopened its nightspots.
“For 540 days nobody had been permitted to dance freely inside the walls of Berlin clubs since the onset of Tanz Verboten, or “Dance Forbidden,” the nickname for the city’s ban on indoor dance parties in order to curb the spread of COVID-19,” Arikia Millikan writes for Nat Geo. “The rainbow at the end of the storm had finally arrived: Berlin was back.”
But it wasn’t.
Last Thursday, Germany increased COVID-19 restrictions in response to rising cases and concerns about the Omicron variant. Unvaccinated people are no longer allowed in Berlin’s clubs, dancing is again verboten, and clubs in high-infection rate areas may face closure.
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| COVID continues to test our humanity. Our attempt to “get back to normal” will fall short until the world’s poorest people have the same access to the vaccine as the world’s richest people.
Christians value the candlelight reflection of the season of Advent. But worshippers also really want to gather with friends, hug family members, and enjoy life with others after being cooped up for nearly two years.
Yes, we are resilient. But we’re in a battle with COVID. And COVID is winning. As of this morning, more than 788,000 people in the U.S. and 5.25 million globally have been reported killed by COVID. We are not post-COVID. COVID is now. Families, like mine, are still burying their COVID dead. The pandemic is not over.
(Pictured at top, an open-air performance in Berlin in August; above, masked dancers in a Berlin nightclub.)
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| | High honors for Josephine Baker: American-born entertainer and civil rights activist Baker last week entered France’s Parthenon, one of the country’s rarest honors. Baker is only one of six women who’ve received the honor, Variety reports. The 18th-century Parisian monument is dedicated to those who’ve made a lasting imprint on French history, including the writer Voltaire, philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, resistance hero Jean Moulin, and scientist Marie Curie. (Pictured above, Baker in 1945.)
25 years: That’s how long it took Ohio to repay the Nez Perce people for a “charge” it demanded from the tribe to buy back its own artifacts, ARTNews reports. The historical pieces were stolen from the Indigenous people over the years, and “owned” by Ohio’s historical society, which made the Nez Perce pay $608,000 in the 1990s for them. The collection has been renamed “Wetxuuwiitin,” which in the Nez Perce language of Nimipuutímt means “returned home after a period of captivity.”
A 3,400-year-old walkway is unveiled: After decades of renovation, the “Avenue of Sphinxes” has opened in southern Europe. The ancient promenade, which connects Luxor and Karnak temples, had been buried in the sand for thousands of years before a team of archaeologists showed up. See Voice of America’s photos from the lavish unveiling, marked by a parade, fireworks, and dancing.
Teenage discovery: On her third day out with a metal detector, 13-year-old Milly Hardwick found a hoard of items dating back 3,000 years in a field in eastern England. Among them: socketed ax heads, winged ax heads, cake ingots, and blade fragments made of bronze. She laughed at the absurdity of stumbling onto the discovery. “The Romans have been there, everyone has been there—and we’re the ones to find it,” she told the New York Times. “It’s crazy.”
Follow-up: Last week, we mentioned that Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa was concerned the Philippine government would not allow the veteran journalist to attend next Saturday’s award ceremony in Norway. Following worldwide appeals, a Philippine appeals court ruled on Friday that Ressa, a regime critic who faces politically related charges at home, could leave the country for the ceremony.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY EIJI MIYAZAWA, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | Fantastic feathers: That’s how this photograph by Eiji Miyazawa was captioned in a recent Photo of the Day feature. The prized long-tailed rooster on Shikoku Island, Japan—and that plumage!—is at the heart of the image, with his breeder on the left in the background, talking with avian physiologist Frank X. Ogasawara. Ogasawara received a National Geographic Society grant to study the birds and wrote about his findings for Nat Geo’s December 1970 issue.
Related: The stunning evolution of plumage
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 | We spoke about the land: ‘If we lose the land, we lose the culture. Lose the culture, lose the peace. Lose the peace, lose the community. Lose the community, lose our way of life. forever.
| | | The Oloiboni Kitok (Mo-kompo ole Simel)
| Maasai leader
From: My visit with the spiritual voice of the hidden Serengeti | | |
 | PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY STRATTON FAMILY
| | 80 years ago tomorrow: Then a 19-year-old sailor, Donald Stratton remembered the quiet morning in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. “It started out real nice,” he told us in 2017, “but then—well, you know the rest.” Suddenly, 353 Japanese warplanes attacked the U.S. fleet at its Hawaii base, killing 2,403 U.S. personnel prompting the U.S. entry into World War II. An explosion about his ship, the U.S.S. Arizona, caused burns to about 70 percent of his body, but Stratton somehow survived, and after a long recovery, re-enlisted in 1944. Few WWII survivors remain; on Sunday, one of the most famous, former U.S. Senator Bob Dole, died at age 98. (Pictured, above left: Donald Stratton entered the Navy in October 1940; above right, Stratton, in the front row at the right, while healing at a hospital after his extensive injuries in the attack.)
Subscriber exclusive: In maps, the secret plan to attack Pearl Harbor
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| Little Women wasn’t enough: Though the classic novel of the spirited March sisters made her successful, Louisa Mae Alcott (pictured above) didn’t want to spend her life serving up “moral pap for the young.” Before Little Women, Alcott wrote 30 steamy Gothic novels under a pseudonym. What she called her “blood and thunder” works included A Long Fatal Love Chase, whose heroine deals with Satan for freedom. As recounted in the latest Nat Geo History magazine, Alcott once told a friend: “I think my natural ambition is for the lurid style.”
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| Today's newsletter was curated and edited by David Beard, Monica Williams, and Jen Tse. Have an idea or link to a story you think is right down our alley? Let us know at david.beard@natgeo.com. Happy trails!
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