Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters?(smithsonianmag.com)

43 points by benbreen 28 days ago | 21 comments

Smithsonian magazine article on research suggesting Elizabeth I's male secretaries revised and intensified emotion in her letters to figures like Mary, Queen of Scots.

Titanic's sister, Britannic, sank in 1916. Divers have recovered artifacts(smithsonianmag.com)

57 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 18 comments

Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants(smithsonianmag.com)

107 points by bryanrasmussen 8 months ago | 32 comments

Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom(smithsonianmag.com)

80 points by cisc 1 month ago | 40 comments

Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee(smithsonianmag.com)

188 points by grahambargeron 4 months ago | 117 comments

How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle(smithsonianmag.com)

49 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 12 comments