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Mon Jul 27
Why Reading Egyptian Hieroglyphics Is Easier Than You Think
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Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33 RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (RIP)
16h
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The Wisdom of David Bowie: On Art, Religion, Technology and More
1d
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The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910)
1d
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The Daily Routine of Marcus Aurelius: How to Live Like a Stoic
2d
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The Women of the Bauhaus: See Hip, Avant-Garde Photographs of Female Students & Instructors at the Famous Art School
2d
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Why Americans Stopped Reading Books
5d
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Discover the Mundaneum, an Early 20th-Century “Internet” That Put the World’s Knowledge on Millions of Index Cards
6d
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A 1932 Illustrated Map of Harlem’s Night Clubs: From the Cotton Club to the Savoy Ballroom
6d
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The Complete History of the Beatles as Told By Conan O’Brien
1w
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NASA Enlists Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Norman Rockwell & 350 Other Artists to Visually Document America’s Space Program
1w
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The Secret History of the Antichrist
1w
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5,000 Classic Movie Posters Digitized & Put Online: Free to Browse & Download
1w
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The Genius of Airplane!: How to Make a Comedy by Playing Everything Completely Straight
1w
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 840,000 Works of Art, Including Great Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer
1w
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Discover the Ancient Roman Shorthand Writing System with 4,000 Symbols Commissioned by Cicero
1w
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When the US Mail Was Delivered Underground at 35 MPH Through a Network of Pneumatic Tubes (1893–1953)
1w
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One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized: See the “Bankes Homer” Manuscript in High Resolution (Circa 150 C.E.)
1w
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The Most Controversial Ancient Philosophy: Epicureanism
2w
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Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno
2w
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How the Beatles Made their Most Acclaimed Album, Revolver, Released 60 Years Ago This Month
2w
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226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online
2w
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How the Bird Sound Effects in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Were Created with a Pioneering Electronic Instrument, the Trautonium
2w
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Watch a Band Perform the Sound Effects from Pink Floyd’s “Money,” Using a Money Counter, Torn Sheets of Paper & More
2w
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The History of Glam Rock and How It Put an End to the Hippie Era
2w
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How Ancient Greek Warships Worked: The Engineering of the Trireme Explained in 3D Animation
2w
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Mark Twain Predicts the Internet in 1898: Read His Sci-Fi Crime Story, “From The ‘London Times’ in 1904”
2w
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Read 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and More
3w
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How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer
3w
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What Did Ancient Rome Look Like? A 3D Virtual Tour of the City During the Second Century AD
3w
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Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Music
3w
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Watch the Evolution of Manhattan Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 1600 to 2026
3w
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Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)
3w
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Why Mapmakers Put Fake Towns on Their Maps in the 1920s — and the One That Became Real
3w
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A Guide to Every Major Film Adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey Before Christopher Nolan’s Movie
3w
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The Visionary Mystical Art of Carl Jung: See Illustrated Pages from The Red Book
3w
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How a 13th-Century Monk Created a Prayer Manuscript by Writing Over—and Accidentally Preserving—Archimedes’ Groundbreaking Mathematical Works
1mo
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Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek
1mo
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What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improvise
1mo
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Christopher Hitchens Explains Why Homer’s Odyssey Still Matters to Our World (2000)
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