A lesson from the 1850s. Plus, why are teenage brains so different?
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They sought to inflame.
This U.S. political party slammed “elites,” lambasted immigrants, and pushed violence, hateful ethnic stereotypes, and fear. The secretive Know-Nothing Party resonated with many Americans of the 1840s and 1850s, inciting riots (pictured above, violence in Philadelphia after Know-Nothings burned a Catholic church).
The political party, once led by former president Millard Fillmore, suddenly collapsed in the mid-1850s. What happened? One reason: Many followers joined a new, more tolerant group, the Republican Party, soon to be led by Abraham Lincoln.
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| | Bullet Train: The Brad Pitt film takes place on Japan’s Tokaido Shinkansen, the busiest high-speed train in the world. This was Japan’s first bullet train line—and the train now travels as fast as 177 mph (285 kph). That means a trip from Tokyo to Osaka can take as little as two hours and 22 minutes. (Pictured here, the Tokaido Shinkansen zooms past Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak.) | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY COLLART HERVÉ, SYGMA/GETTY IMAGES | | | The last whaling season? The owner of Iceland’s last whaling company has been hunting whales since he was 13 years old—and he doesn’t intend to stop. But with less than 2 percent of Icelanders eating whale meat and a “forward-thinking” new fisheries minister, Iceland may have had its last whaling season. “The practice is a part of our past rather than our future,” the fisheries minister, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, tells Nat Geo. (Pictured above, workers in Iceland carving steaks from whale carcasses in 1989.) | | | |
| Rivaling Machu Picchu: In the Peruvian Andes, the ruins of the ancient Inca settlement of Choquequirao can only be reached by foot or mule—which, for many, only adds to the appeal. A cousin to the famous Machu Picchu site, Choquequirao boasts ceremonial halls, chambers that once held mummies, and mysterious llama art. A proposed cable car could make the site more accessible, for better and worse, Nat Geo reports. (Above, the 10,000-foot-high Choquequirao ruins photographed by Nat Geo Explorer Victor Zea.)
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