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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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Take a Virtual Tour of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London

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The Origins of Satan: The Evolution of the Devil in Religion

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Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy

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Did Paul McCartney Really Die in 1966? How the Biggest Beatles Conspiracy Theory Spread

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The Ancient Roman Dodecahedron: The Mysterious Object That Has Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries

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Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

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21 Rules for Living from Miyamoto Musashi, Japan’s Samurai Philosopher (1584–1645)

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