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The Advanced Technology of Ancient Rome: Automatic Doors, Water Clocks, Vending Machines & More

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Discover the 100-Year-Old Self-Playing Violin, One of the Most Complex Music Players Ever Made

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What an 85-Year-Long Harvard Study Says Is the Real Key to Happiness

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Why You Should Only Work 3–4 Hours a Day, Like Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf & Adam Smith

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Explore an Online Archive of 12,700 Vintage Cookbooks

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How Egon Schiele Made Enduring Art from His Troubled Life and Times

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Behold an Anatomically Correct Replica of the Human Brain, Knitted by a Psychiatrist

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Hear the First Masterpiece of Electronic Music, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge

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The World’s Most Famous Organ Piece Played on the World’s Largest Fully Operational Pipe Organ

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How Raphael Became A Master: Watch the Evolution of the Artist Through His Madonna Paintings

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A Massive Choir Sings “Paranoid” to Honor Ozzy Osbourne

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Empire Without Limit: Watch Mary Beard’s TV Series on Ancient Rome

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What Makes Picasso’s Guernica a Great Painting?: Explore the Anti-Fascist Mural That Became a Worldwide Anti-War Symbol

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Hear the Long-Lost Chants of English Monks, Revived for the First Time in 500 Years

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1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put Online by Dutch Museums

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The 1830s Device That Created the First Animations: The Phenakistiscope

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Animated Map Shows How the Five Major Religions Spread Across the World (3000 BC — 2000 AD)

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Watch Momijigari, Japan’s Oldest Surviving Film (1899)

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Franz Kafka’s Anxious Letters to His Fiancée, Read Aloud by Richard Ayoade

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Seven Philosophy Books for Beginners: Where to Start

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