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  • Wed Oct 8

The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas

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Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Inventions Rendered in 3D Animation: Helicopters, Robotic Knights, The First Ever Diving Suit & More

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A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens

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Discover the Oldest Book of the Americas: A Close Look at the Astronomical Maya Codex of Mexico

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Inside the Making of the Alien Suit: How H. R. Giger’s Dark Vision Came to Life in Ridley Scott’s Film

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How Marlon Brando Changed Acting: Inside a Scene from On the Waterfront

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Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries

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The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks

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Nikola Tesla Accurately Predicted the Rise of Wireless Technology & the Smartphone in 1926

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Celebrate Halloween with Michael Jackson’s Horrifically Entertaining “Thriller” Music Video—and a Behind-the-Scenes Documentary

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Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price

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When Marcel Duchamp Drew a Mustache & Goatee on the Mona Lisa (1919)

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Roger Waters Reflects on the Haunting Psychological Decline of Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett

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A Tour of a Utopian Home Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Presented by His Last Living Client

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Leck Mich Im Arsch (“Kiss My Ass”): Listen to Mozart’s Scatological Canon in B Flat (1782)

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Meet the Forgotten Female Artist Behind the World’s Most Popular Tarot Deck (1909)

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How Saul Bass Designed the Strange Original Poster for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining

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74 Ways Characters Die in Shakespeare’s Plays Shown in a Handy Infographic: From Snakebites to Lack of Sleep

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Aldous Huxley to George Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949)

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You Can Now See the Parthenon Without Scaffolding for the First Time in 200 Years

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The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe’s Death: 19 Theories on What Caused the Poet’s Demise

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How Did The World Get So Ugly?: Then Versus Now

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Explore 1,100 Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe: They’re Digitized and Free to View Online

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The 135 Movies You Must See to Understand Cinema

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Alejandro Jodorowsky Explains How Tarot Cards Can Give You Creative Inspiration

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When a Salvador Dalí Sketch Was Stolen from Rikers Island Prison (2003)

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How Thieves Stole Priceless Jewels at the Louvre in 8 Minutes

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The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time, According to 750,000 Readers in the UK (2003)

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The First Electric Guitar: Behold the 1931 “Frying Pan”

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The Surprising Power of Boredom: It Lets You Confront Big Questions & Give Life Meaning

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The Genius Engineering of Roman Aqueducts

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The Night When Bob Dylan Went Electric: Watch Him Play “Maggie’s Farm” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965

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78 Great Directors Who Shaped the History of Cinema: An Introduction

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Why Real Biblical Angels Are Creepy, Beastly, and Hardly Angelic

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Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like

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Marc Maron Wraps Up the WTF Podcast: Watch His Final Interview with Barack Obama

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The 1976 Synth Album That Promised to Help Your Plants Grow: Discover Mother Earth’s Plantasia

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Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written With a Typewriter

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Every Filmed and Televised Performance by Joy Division (1978–79)

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The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

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Mark Twain Makes a List of 60 American Comfort Foods He Missed While Traveling Abroad (1880)

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