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Skiing Down Mount Everest with No Oxygen: It’s a Wild Ride

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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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