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How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer

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What Did Ancient Rome Look Like? A 3D Virtual Tour of the City During the Second Century AD

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Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Music

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Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)

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Watch the Evolution of Manhattan Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 1600 to 2026

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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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A Guide to Every Major Film Adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey Before Christopher Nolan’s Movie

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The Visionary Mystical Art of Carl Jung: See Illustrated Pages from The Red Book

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How a 13th-Century Monk Created a Prayer Manuscript by Writing Over—and Accidentally Preserving—Archimedes’ Groundbreaking Mathematical Works

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

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What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improvise

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Christopher Hitchens Explains Why Homer’s Odyssey Still Matters to Our World (2000)

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Christopher Nolan Picks 15 Favorite Films from the Criterion Closet

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The Essence of Hayao Miyazaki Films: A Short Documentary About the Humanity at the Heart of His Animation

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19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body

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Where Did Europe’s Countries—and the United Kingdom—Get Their Names?

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A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History

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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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Umberto Eco’s Personal Library Opens to the Public: More Than 32,000 Books, Exactly as He Left Them

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Jimi Hendrix Plays “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” for The Beatles, Just Three Days After the Album’s Release (1967)

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