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Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” Slowed Down to 33 RPM Sounds Great and Takes on New, Unexpected Meanings (RIP)

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The Wisdom of David Bowie: On Art, Religion, Technology and More

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The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910)

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The Daily Routine of Marcus Aurelius: How to Live Like a Stoic

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The Women of the Bauhaus: See Hip, Avant-Garde Photographs of Female Students & Instructors at the Famous Art School

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Why Americans Stopped Reading Books

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Discover the Mundaneum, an Early 20th-Century “Internet” That Put the World’s Knowledge on Millions of Index Cards

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A 1932 Illustrated Map of Harlem’s Night Clubs: From the Cotton Club to the Savoy Ballroom

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The Complete History of the Beatles as Told By Conan O’Brien

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NASA Enlists Andy Warhol, Annie Leibovitz, Norman Rockwell & 350 Other Artists to Visually Document America’s Space Program

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The Secret History of the Antichrist

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5,000 Classic Movie Posters Digitized & Put Online: Free to Browse & Download

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The Genius of Airplane!: How to Make a Comedy by Playing Everything Completely Straight

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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 840,000 Works of Art, Including Great Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer

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When the US Mail Was Delivered Underground at 35 MPH Through a Network of Pneumatic Tubes (1893–1953)

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One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized: See the “Bankes Homer” Manuscript in High Resolution (Circa 150 C.E.)

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Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno

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How the Beatles Made their Most Acclaimed Album, Revolver, Released 60 Years Ago This Month

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226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online

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How the Bird Sound Effects in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Were Created with a Pioneering Electronic Instrument, the Trautonium

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