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What Happens When a Musician Plays Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Pride and Joy” on a $25 Kids’ Guitar at Walmart

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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Through the Afterlife

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Read Joan Didion’s Lost Interview with the Grateful Dead (1967)

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The Forgotten Moment When Superman Fought Prejudice Instead of Villains (1950)

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The Most Influential Philosophers Explained in 26 Minutes: From Socrates to Wittgenstein

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The Tarot Card Deck Created by Salvador Dalí

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Watch the Moment When the Wreck of the Titanic Was First Discovered (1985)

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What Happened to Jesus’ Twelve Disciples After the Bible—It Wasn’t Pretty

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When the Nobel Prize Committee Rejected The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien “Has Not Measured Up to Storytelling of the Highest Quality” (1961)

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How John Coltrane Introduced the World to His Radical Sound with His Recording of “My Favorite Things” (1961)

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Why The Founding Fathers Were Obsessed with This Muslim Ruler

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Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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How a Volcanic Eruption Helped Unleash the Black Death in Europe in 1347

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Buckminster Fuller Creates an Animated Visualization of Human Population Growth from 1000 B.C.E. to 1965

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How Yasujirō Ozu Learned to Use Color in His Masterful Films: A New Every Frame a Painting Video Essay

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1,000 Years of Medieval European History in 20 Minutes

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Confidence: The Cartoon That Helped America Get Through the Great Depression (1933)

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Why Ancient Egyptian Honey Remains Edible After 3,000 Years

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When Francis Bacon Shocked the Art World: Viewers Were Horrified by His Paintings, But Couldn’t Look Away

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You Can Have Your Ashes Turned Into a Playable Vinyl Record, When Your Day Comes

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