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An Introduction to the Islamic World: 1,000 Years of History in 19 Minutes

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The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)

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The Largest Bookshelf Tour Ever Filmed: Inside a Classicist’s 20,000-Volume Library

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Hip 1960s Latin Teacher Translated Beatles Songs into Latin for His Students: Read Lyrics for “O Teneum Manum,” “Diei Duri Nox” & More

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A Tour of Athens’ Acropolis, Explained with 3D Reconstructions

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The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”

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Take a Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall Just Months Before Its Sudden Fall (Summer 1989)

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M.I.T. Computer Program Predicts in 1973 That Civilization Will End by 2040

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Hear Robert Johnson’s “Come On in My Kitchen” in Remarkably Restored Audio, Taken from a Rare Test Pressing

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The Myth of Sisyphus Wonderfully Animated in an Oscar-Nominated Short Film (1974)

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Revisit Daily Life in China in 1917 Through Footage Enhanced and Colorized by AI

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Who Would Be King of the United States If George Washington Had Become a Monarch?

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Enjoy Three Hours of Free Nature Videos Narrated by David Attenborough

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The Spread of Christianity Animated, from Antiquity Until Today

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Watch Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page Rock the Theremin, the Early Soviet Electronic Instrument

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The Lost Scenes of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons Are Being Controversially Restored with AI

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Hand-Colored Photographs from 19th Century Japan: 110 Images Capture the Waning Days of Traditional Japanese Society

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Every Book of the Bible Explained in One Video

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What Happens When a Musician Plays Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Pride and Joy” on a $25 Kids’ Guitar at Walmart

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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Through the Afterlife

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