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We're delighted to share the news that JSTOR Daily has been honored with a Silver Anthem Award, recognizing our work in nonprofit news and journalism to raise awareness in education, arts, and culture. We extend our thanks to the Anthem awards committee, and we are especially grateful for all of our contributors, fact-checkers, and ITHAKA team members who help us bring the scholarship held in JSTOR to readers worldwide. https://bit.ly/40W2PZc

Religious and moral attitudes in Greece mostly prevented routine human dissection, but the Ptolemies were authoritarian rulers, eager to elevate themselves and their empire. So you can guess what happened. https://bit.ly/4g6fFIn

Tarantula hawk wasps offer some of the most painful stings known to humans, giving them almost absolute protection from us and other vertebrate predators. https://bit.ly/4fWmDQf

As runners head to the Philadelphia marathon this weekend, let’s celebrate athletes everywhere who endeavor to vanquish 26.2 miles by learning all about the race’s true origins (hint: they’re not Greek, exactly). https://bit.ly/40XUvIi

Our options in modern cities for Legionella to make themselves at home are, indeed, legion. https://bit.ly/3V11fRT

In the 1920s and 1930s, Dorish Ulmann took hundreds of photographs of the residents of the Great Smoky Mountains. These images and more than a thousand others are available via JSTOR from the University of Oregon. https://bit.ly/3Ogt2Kc #photography #history

Preah Vihear was built primarily during the golden period of the Khmer Empire, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, but its location remains a point of contention in the twenty-first century. https://bit.ly/3Oaz1R0 #architecture #history #heritage

The Emmett Till Memory Project uses archival photos and other digitized materials to share the story of Till’s life and death. Safeguarding those materials is of paramount importance—that’s where #Portico at ITHAKA comes in. https://bit.ly/4hQBwoS

This is the history of the Nisei men who resisted the draft, who didn’t believe they should be forced to serve a government that had stripped them of their citizenship rights and kept them and their family members in remote, grim camps. https://bit.ly/40MME01

To mark the occasion of JSTOR Daily’s tenth anniversary, we reached out to some of our contributors to ask them about their writing experience. https://bit.ly/3YLdvXS