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| | The scenario sounds eerily contemporary: A country invades its neighbor and thinks it will be a cakewalk. But the move wrecks the invader's economy and leads to the end of its authoritarian rule. We're talking about Argentina's invasion of the remote Falklands Islands, 40 years ago last weekend.
Argentina’s military government had counted on a declining England just surrendering its claim to the sparsely populated South American islands, also known as the Malvinas. It underestimated the resolve of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who dispatched warships, jets, and troops to defend them.
The Argentine forces on the islands, poorly led, fed, armed, and clothed, were no match for the British military, but the competing claims to the islands remain. (Pictured above, captured Argentine soldiers are guarded by a British Royal Marine in 1982.)
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JANET JARMAN | | Bundle of joy: Midwife Epifania Elías Gonzales examines Delfina Vicente López inside Vicente’s home on a remote hilltop not far from San Carlos Sija, Guatemala. During her 30-year career, Elías has helped hundreds of women in her predominantly K’iche' speaking Indigenous region. Midwives like her are critical in the battle to cut maternal and infant death, particularly in Guatemalan villages where running water is hard to come by and pregnancies often are high risk. “We're doing what the health system doesn't,” she says.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ISMAIL FERDOUS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | Celebrating acceptance: Transgender activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi prays to Lord Shiva while taking a holy dip in the Ganges River during Kumbh Mela, an ancient Indian spiritual pilgrimage and the biggest gathering of humans on the planet. Tripathi founded a Hindi ascetic order called Kinnar Akhada, whose members are primarily transgender women. After years of advocacy, Kinnar Akhara was the first transgender camp officially allowed at Kumbh Mela.
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| | 4,000 years: That’s how long an Egyptian queen’s burial tomb (pictured above in 1926) lay untouched. Hetepheres’s tomb had lain in the shadow of the Great Pyramid, built by her son, King Khufu. Nat Geo’s History magazine recounts the opening of the tomb, the painstaking renovation of the items found there, and the big surprise that awaited the archaeologists.
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