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How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War

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John Cage’s Silent, Avant-Garde Piece 4′33″ Gets Covered by a Death Metal Band

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Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939)

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Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More

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How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954

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Watch the Titanic and Lusitania Sink in Real Time: One Fast, One Slow

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How Everything in a Medieval Castle Worked, from Its Moats to Its Dungeons

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Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today

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How James Cameron Shot Titanic/i>‘s Hugely Complex Sinking Scene

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Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921)

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How Many Lives Does God Take in the Bible: An Investigation into a Surprisingly High Body Count

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A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University

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How Kraftwerk’s 22-Minute Song “Autobahn” Became an Early Masterpiece in Electronic Music (1975)

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Watch Errol Morris’s Tune Out the Noise Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing

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When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples

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An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete

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Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897

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See the Climactic Ending of Steven Spielberg’s Breakout Duel Recreated Entirely with 3D-Printed Models

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How the Hoover Dam Works: A 3D Animated Introduction

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Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom

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