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The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926)

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Rome in 1890 Captured in Color Photographs: The Colosseum, Forum, Trevi Fountain & More

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Behold the First Realistic Depiction of the Human Face (Circa 25,000 BCE)

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The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII

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How Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927)

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What Did the Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Sound Like? Oxford Scholars Recreate Them

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How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics

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The Ingenious Engineering of Silk: How the 2,000-Year-Old Pattern Loom Powered the Silk Road and the Wealth of Ancient China

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Hear Aldous Huxley Read Brave New World. Plus 84 Classic Radio Dramas from CBS Radio Workshop (1956–57)

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How to Carve Hieroglyphs Just Like the Ancient Egyptians Did

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How to Make Coffee in the Bialetti Moka Pot: The “Ultimate Techique”

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An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

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Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

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A Tour Inside the Chelsea Hotel: Once Home to Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen & More

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How the Golden Gate Bridge Was Built: A 3D Animated Introduction

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The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: A Guidebook for Surviving the Afterlife

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Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity

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An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His Bizarre 15,000-Page Illustrated Masterwork

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Howard Zinn’s “What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire”: An Illustrated Video Narrated by Viggo Mortensen

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The Dead Sea Scrolls: Discover the Secrets of the Bible’s Oldest and Strangest Texts

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