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Thu Sep 17
How Vincent van Gogh’s Sister-in-Law Worked Tirelessly to Make Him Famous
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The Megaprojects That Even the Ancient Romans Couldn’t Pull Off: Rerouting the Tiber, Digging a Canal, and More
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Watch “The Midnight Parasites,” a Surreal Japanese Animation Set in the World of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (1972)
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Why Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur & Other Hollywood Classics Still Look So Good
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Soviet-Era Illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976)
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The Names of Nearly 4 Million Enslaved People in Former British Colonies Are Now Searchable Online, Helping Descendants Find Lost Ancestors
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The Bialetti Moka Express: The History of Italy’s Iconic Coffee Maker, and How to Use It the Right Way
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The Biggest Ship in History Was Built in China 600 Years Ago—Or Was It?
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A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan
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David Byrne’s New Book Explores the Strange Afterlife of Good Ideas: From Vermeer’s Paintings to Roman Concrete & Dark Matter
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The Strange and Brilliant Inventions of Nikola Tesla
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7 Tips from Edgar Allan Poe on How to Write Vivid Stories & Poems
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Why the Maps of London, Tokyo, New York, and Other Major Cities Look the Way They Do
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It’s the End of the World as We Know It: The Apocalypse Gets Visualized in an Inventive Map from 1486
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Discover the Lost Horror Series Deemed Too Shocking for BBC Television (1967)
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In 1704, Isaac Newton Predicted That the World Will End in 2060
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300 Years Before ChatGPT, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels Imagined Machines Writing Books and Producing Knowledge (1726)
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Artists Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Visit Leon Trotsky in Mexico: Vintage Footage from 1938
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When Buckminster Fuller Proposed Putting a Dome Over Manhattan (1960)
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LEGO Lets You Build Gaudí’s Sagrada Família in Its Largest Set Ever
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The Cable that Changed the World: How Instant Global Communication Began in 1858
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The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online
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How to Explain Complicated Things
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Mick Jagger Tells the Story Behind ‘Gimme Shelter’ and Merry Clayton’s Haunting Background Vocals
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Read the CIA’s Manual of Trickery and Deception, Written by a Professional Stage Magician
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The Little Albert Experiment: The Perverse 1920 Study That Made a Baby Afraid of Santa Claus & Bunnies
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How Else Marie Pade, a Prisoner in World War II, Became Denmark’s First Female Electronic Composer
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The Long, Strange History of Tarot Cards: From the 14th Century to Modern Times
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How to Memorize an Entire Chapter from “Moby Dick”: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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When Salvador Dalí Gave a Surrealist Lecture in a Diving Suit … and Almost Suffocated (1936)
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Watch Interplanetary Revolution (1924): The Most Bizarre Soviet Animated Propaganda Film You’ll Ever See
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How Alan Turing and His Fellow Codebreakers Broke the Nazis’ “Unbreakable” Enigma Code
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The Digital Dada Library: Discover the Archive That Preserves the Original Publications of the Experimental Anti-Art Movement Online
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When Galileo Calculated the Precise Dimensions of Hell in Dante’s Inferno
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Listen to 4+ Hours of Jazz & Classical Music from Haruki Murakami’s Novels
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