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Mon Jun 29
A Guide to Every Major Film Adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey Before Christopher Nolan’s Movie
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The Visionary Mystical Art of Carl Jung: See Illustrated Pages from The Red Book
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How a 13th-Century Monk Created a Prayer Manuscript by Writing Over—and Accidentally Preserving—Archimedes’ Groundbreaking Mathematical Works
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Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek
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What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improvise
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Christopher Hitchens Explains Why Homer’s Odyssey Still Matters to Our World (2000)
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Christopher Nolan Picks 15 Favorite Films from the Criterion Closet
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The Essence of Hayao Miyazaki Films: A Short Documentary About the Humanity at the Heart of His Animation
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Where Did Europe’s Countries—and the United Kingdom—Get Their Names?
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19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body
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A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History
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How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Anderson
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Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them
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Jimi Hendrix Plays “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” for The Beatles, Just Three Days After the Album’s Release (1967)
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Hear the Haunting Sound of an Ancient Celtic War Trumpet: Silent for 2,000 Years, It Now Sounds Again
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Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great War
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The World’s Greatest Song That Simply Shouldn’t Exist: The Making of The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life”
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Where Did the Monk’s Haircut Come From? A Look at the Rich and Contentious History of the Tonsure
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The Radical, Unclassifiable Art of William Blake
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A Walk Through Homer’s Odyssey: A Guide to the Epic Before Seeing Christopher Nolan’s Film
1w
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The Origins of the Monsters in Homer’s Odyssey: The Cyclops, Sirens, Scylla & More
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Hear Hours of Lectures by Michel Foucault: Recorded in English & French Between 1961 and 1983
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Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online
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11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix
2w
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How Anti-Chinese Immigration Laws Unexpectedly Led to a Chinese Restaurant Boom in America
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How Russian Artists Imagined in 1914 What Moscow Would Look Like in 2259
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Tatlin’s Tower, One of the Most Ambitious Buildings That Was Never Built
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How Cinemas Taught Early Movie-Goers the Rules & Etiquette for Watching Films (1912): No Whistling, Standing or Wearing Big Hats
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The Bayeux Tapestry Explained: Watch an Animated Retelling of the Norman Conquest
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Watch the First Spectacular Film Adaptation of the Odyssey (1911)
3w
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Albert Einstein Imposes on His First Wife a Cruel List of Marital Demands
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How an Edward Hopper Painting Inspired Norman Bates’ Iconic House in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho
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A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Traces of the Original Colors Still In It
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How Nashville Became Home to a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon
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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Albert Camus’ Touching Thank You Letter to His Elementary School Teacher
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Alfred Hitchcock Wanted Frank Lloyd Wright to Design the North by Northwest House: An Architect Just Built It for $45 Million
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When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930)
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The Declaration of Independence Performed by Morgan Freeman, Benicio del Toro, Winona Ryder & Other Actors
3w
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Meet the Syntopicon: The Ambitious Index That Tried to Organize All of Western Thought (1952)
1mo
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The Thai Beef Noodle Soup That Has Been Continuously Simmering for 52 Years
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Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980)
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