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Six Innovative Ways Humans Have Kept Cool Throughout History
Laura Kiniry Travel Correspondent With record-breaking temperatures scorching towns across the United States this month, Smithsonian magazine is looking to history to uncover innovative methods that people of the past used to beat the heat. As it turns out …