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Alfred Hitchcock Wanted Frank Lloyd Wright to Design the North by Northwest House: An Architect Just Built It for $45 Million

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When Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930)

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The Declaration of Independence Performed by Morgan Freeman, Benicio del Toro, Winona Ryder & Other Actors

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The Thai Beef Noodle Soup That Has Been Continuously Simmering for 52 Years

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Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980)

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Why Mapmakers Put Fake Towns on Their Maps in the 1920s — and the One That Became Real

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Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek

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Christopher Nolan Picks 15 Favorite Films from the Criterion Closet

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How Did Everything Begin?: Animations on the Origins of the Universe Narrated by X‑Files Star Gillian Anderson

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Hear Hours of Lectures by Michel Foucault: Recorded in English & French Between 1961 and 1983

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11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix

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How Cinemas Taught Early Movie-Goers the Rules & Etiquette for Watching Films (1912): No Whistling, Standing or Wearing Big Hats

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A 3,000-Year-Old Painter’s Palette from Ancient Egypt, with Traces of the Original Colors Still In It

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Meet the Syntopicon: The Ambitious Index That Tried to Organize All of Western Thought (1952)

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An Entire Ancient Greek Philosophical Treatise Burned by Mount Vesuvius Has Been Deciphered with X‑Ray and AI Technologies

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How Japan Invented Daisugi, the Ancient Method of Growing Lumber Without Cutting Down Trees

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When Bill Murray Unexpectedly Adapted a W. Somerset Maugham Novel: The Razor’s Edge (1984)

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Rare Film of Sculptor Auguste Rodin Working at His Studio in Paris (1915)

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The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: Where “Fake News” Began

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When The Surrealists Expelled Salvador Dalí for “the Glorification of Hitlerian Fascism” (1934)

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