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At midnight: That’s when the United States will begin restricting travel from COVID-devastated India. The combination of lax human behavior and variants have propelled India into a deadly second wave—and the biggest surge in the world. “Variants are just taking advantage of our carelessness,” Rakesh Mishra, director of the Indian Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, tells Nat Geo.
11 history lessons: May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to the country. But how much Asian American history do we really know? The recent Atlanta spa killings cast a spotlight on our lack of awareness. In response, Time magazine asked 11 historians to share Asian American milestones they believed should be taught in K-12 classrooms. Do you think Black, AAPI, and Native American history should be required school curricula? Let us know.
Coming back home: In 1896, British soldiers stole thousands of artworks from a kingdom in present-day southern Nigeria. They then hit the art market. Now, Germany has agreed to return a share of the artifacts, known collectively as the “Benin Bronzes,” NPR reports.
It was 200 years ago Thursday: That’s when Napoleon Bonaparte, a soldier from Corsica who had ruled most of Europe, died in exile in the South Atlantic. Nat Geo’s History magazine covers the rise and fall of Napoleon, and the creation of a popular painting that was set at his deathbed. Subscribers can read it here.
The lessons of Kent State: Tomorrow marks the 51st anniversary of the National Guard killing of four young people at Ohio’s Kent State University. The slaughter of the protesters against the Vietnam War in Kent—and 11 days later at Jackson State in Mississippi, had one immediate effect; It galvanized the fight for the swift ratification of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, wrote Jonathan X. Simmons for Nat Geo.
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