Passport news is typically about changing rules, records, and regulations surrounding the official document. And rightfully so: State Department urgings to renew passports sooner rather than later are important, as is Germany having the world's most powerful passport for the third year in a row. Yet in focusing on a passport's capabilities rather than its aesthetics, we skip over a key part of its origin story: Why do our passports look the way they do in the first place?
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