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• How Civilizations Built on Top of Each Other: Discover What Lies Beneath Rome, Troy & Other Cities, 14 May 2025 in History
• How Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture Evolved Over 70 Years and Changed America, 13 May 2025 in Architecture&History
• How Our Depiction of Jesus Changed Over 2,000 Years and What He May Have Actually Looked Like, 12 May 2025 in History&Religion
• How a Student’s Phone Call Averted a Skyscraper Collapse: The Tale of the Citicorp Center, 09 May 2025 in Architecture&History
• How Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd Pulled Off Their Spectacular Stunts During Silent Film’s Golden Age, 08 May 2025 in Film&History
• Take a 3D Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel & Explore Michelangelo’s Masterpieces Up Close, 07 May 2025 in Art&History&Religion
• A Japanese Zen Monk Explains What Zen Is Really About, 06 May 2025 in Life&Religion
• See Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring in 3D in a New 108-Gigapixel Scan, 05 May 2025 in Art&History
• Was William Shakespeare’s Marriage Closer—and Less Estranged—Than We Thought?: A 17th-Century Letter Changes What We Know About the Bard’s Life., 02 May 2025 in History&Literature
• Stream Online Monty Python and the Holy Grail Free on Its 50th Anniversary, 01 May 2025 in Comedy&Film
• The Heavy-Metal Band Disturbed Covered Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” Ten Years Ago, and It’s Still Topping the Charts, 30 Apr 2025 in Music
• The Simple, Ingenious Design of the Ancient Roman Javelin: How the Romans Engineered a Remarkably Effective Weapon, 29 Apr 2025 in History
• The Greatest Art Heist in History: How the Mona Lisa Was Stolen from the Louvre (1911), 28 Apr 2025 in Art&History
• A Meditative Tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Masterpiece, 25 Apr 2025 in Architecture&History
• Miles Davis’ Album On the Corner Tried to Woo Young Rock & Funk Fans: First Considered a Disaster, It’s Now Hailed as a Masterpiece, 24 Apr 2025 in Music
• The Roman Colosseum Deconstructed: 3D Animation Reveals the Hidden Technology That Powered Rome’s Great Arena, 23 Apr 2025 in Architecture&History
• How Zaha Hadid Revolutionized Architecture & Drew Inspiration from Russian Avant-Garde Art, 22 Apr 2025 in Architecture&Art
• The Extreme Life and Philosophy of Hunter S. Thompson: Gonzo Journalism and the American Condition, 21 Apr 2025 in Books&Writing
• The Real Story of Easter: How We Got from the First Easter in the Bible to Bunnies, Eggs & Chocolate, 18 Apr 2025 in Religion
• How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome: A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals an Ancient Tax Evasion Scheme, 17 Apr 2025 in History&Law
• A Forgotten 16th-Century Manuscript Reveals the First Designs for Modern Rockets, 16 Apr 2025 in History&Science&Technology
• The Ark Before Noah: Discover the Ancient Flood Myths That Came Before the Bible, 15 Apr 2025 in History&Religion
• What the World Will Look Like in 250 Million Years: Mapping the Distant Future, 14 Apr 2025 in Science
• How Chinese Characters Work: The Evolution of a Three-Millennia-Old Writing System, 11 Apr 2025 in History&Language&Writing
• What Is Kafkaesque?: The Philosophy of Franz Kafka, 10 Apr 2025 in Literature
• The Medieval Manuscript That Features “Yoda”, Killer Snails, Savage Rabbits & More: Discover The Smithfield Decretals, 09 Apr 2025 in Art&Books&History
• Isaac Asimov Describes How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans & Their Creativity: Watch His Last Major Interview (1992), 08 Apr 2025 in Artificial Intelligence&Technology
• Dante’s Inferno: A Visitor’s Guide to Hell, 07 Apr 2025 in Literature
• How Italy Became the Most Divided Country in Europe: Understanding the Great Divide Between North & South, 04 Apr 2025 in Economics&History&Politics
• Why the Romans Stopped Reading Books, 03 Apr 2025 in Books&History
• The 1927 Film Metropolis Created a Dystopian Vision of What the World Would Look Like in 2026–and It Hits Close to Home, 02 Apr 2025 in Film&History
• The Only Illustrated Manuscript of Homer’s Iliad from Antiquity, 01 Apr 2025 in Books&History&Poetry
• Did the Tower of Babel Actually Exist?: A Look at the Archaeological Evidence, 31 Mar 2025 in Architecture&History
• This Is What a Nuclear Strike Would Feel Like: A Precise Simulation, 28 Mar 2025 in Current Affairs&Science&Technology
• The Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Tseng Kwong Chi, 27 Mar 2025 in History&Photography
• When Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the Nazis (1942), 26 Mar 2025 in History&Politics
• When The Twilight Zone Imagined Fascism in America in a 1963 Episode Starring Dennis Hopper, 25 Mar 2025 in History&Television
• Every Hidden Detail of New York’s Classic Skyscrapers: The Chrysler, Empire State & Woolworth Buildings, 24 Mar 2025 in Architecture&History
• The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990–2024), 21 Mar 2025 in Music
• Why There Isn’t a Bridge from Italy to Sicily – And Why the 2,000-Year-Old Dream of Building the Bridge May Soon Be Realized, 20 Mar 2025 in Architecture
• An Introduction to The Garden of Earthly Delights & Hieronymus Bosch’s Wildly Creative Vision, 19 Mar 2025 in Art&History
• Watch Alfred Hitchcock’s Groundbreaking, Six-Minute Trailer for Psycho (1960), 18 Mar 2025 in Film
• A Tour of Ancient Rome’s Best Graffiti: “We Have Urinated in Our Beds … There Was No Chamber Pot” & More, 17 Mar 2025 in History&Writing
• The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism, 14 Mar 2025 in History&Religion
• Watch the Only Time Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Performed Together On-Screen (1952), 13 Mar 2025 in Film&History
• Bob Dylan Explains Why Music Has Been Getting Worse, 12 Mar 2025 in Music
• When Charlie Chaplin First Spoke Onscreen: How His Famous Great Dictator Speech Came About, 11 Mar 2025 in Film&History
• Watch “The Birth of the Robot,” Len Lye’s Surreal 1935 Stop-Motion Animation, 10 Mar 2025 in Animation
• A Tour of the Final Home Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright: The Circular Sun House, 07 Mar 2025 in Architecture
• The Classic 1972 Concert Film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii Gets Restored & Will Soon Hit IMAX Theaters, 06 Mar 2025 in Film&Music
• How Stephen King Predicted the Rise of Trump in a 1979 Novel, 05 Mar 2025 in Books&Politics
• How the Nazis Waged War on Modern Art: Inside the “Degenerate Art” Exhibition of 1937, 04 Mar 2025 in Art&History
• Where The Simpsons Began: Discover the Original Shorts That Appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show (1987–1989), 03 Mar 2025 in Animation&Comedy&Television
• The Experimental Movement That Created The Beatles’ Weirdest Song, “Revolution 9”, 28 Feb 2025 in Music
• Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and 1,000 Musicians Protest AI with a New Silent Album, 27 Feb 2025 in Artificial Intelligence&Current Affairs&Music
• What Makes Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas One of the Most Fascinating Paintings in Art History, 26 Feb 2025 in Art&History
• The 48 Laws of Power Explained in 30 Minutes: “Never Outshine the Master,” “Re-Create Yourself,” and More, 25 Feb 2025 in Books&Politics
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists the Best and Worst Sci-Fi Movies: The Blob, Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey & More, 24 Feb 2025 in Film&Sci Fi
• How Do You Use AI in Your Daily Life? Share the Applications That Have Made a Big Difference, 21 Feb 2025 in Artificial Intelligence
• The Architectural History of the Louvre: 800 Years in Three Minutes, 20 Feb 2025 in Architecture&History
• Hear the Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune by David Matthews (1977), 19 Feb 2025 in Music&Sci Fi
• Why Are the Names of British Towns & Cities So Hard to Pronounce?: A Humorous But Informative Primer, 18 Feb 2025 in History&Language&Travel
• Brian Eno Explores What Art Does in a New Book Co-Written with Artist Bette A, 17 Feb 2025 in Art&Books
• Meet Jesse Welles, the Folk Singer Who Turns News into Folk Music, Writing Songs on Elections, Plane Crashes, Ozempic & More, 14 Feb 2025 in Current Affairs&Music
• How the Fairlight CMI Synthesizer Revolutionized Music, 13 Feb 2025 in History&Music&Technology
• What It Was Like to Get a Meal at a Medieval Tavern, 12 Feb 2025 in Food & Drink&History
• Tracing English Back to Its Oldest Known Ancestor: An Introduction to Proto-Indo-European, 11 Feb 2025 in History&Language
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Who Was the Greatest Scientific Mind in History, 10 Feb 2025 in History&Science
• Warner Bros. Lets You Watch 31 Films Free Online: David Byrne’s True Stories, Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep & More, 07 Feb 2025 in Film
• See Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Visualized in Colorfully Animated Scores, 06 Feb 2025 in Animation&Music
• How Japanese Masters Turn Sand Into Swords: The Art of Traditional Sword Making from Start to Finish, 05 Feb 2025 in History&Science
• How Wearing Ridiculously Long Pointed Shoes Became a Medieval Fashion Trend, 04 Feb 2025 in Fashion&History
• Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn’t? Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains His “Feud” with Elon Musk, 03 Feb 2025 in Science&Technology
• The Nature of Human Stupidity Explained by The 48 Laws of Power Author Robert Greene, 31 Jan 2025 in Psychology
• How Robert Frost Wrote One of His Most Famous Poems, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, 30 Jan 2025 in Poetry
• How Frank Lloyd Wright Became Frank Lloyd Wright: A Video Introduction, 29 Jan 2025 in Architecture&History
• When Neapolitans Used to Eat Pasta with Their Bare Hands: Watch Footage from 1903, 28 Jan 2025 in Food & Drink&History
• How Erik Satie’s ‘Furniture Music’ Was Designed to Be Ignored and Paved the Way for Ambient Music, 27 Jan 2025 in History&Music
• Where Do You Put the Camera? Every Frame a Painting Presents Insights from Famous Directors, 24 Jan 2025 in Film
• Revisit Pop-Up Video: The VH1 Series That Reinvented Music Videos & Pop Culture, 23 Jan 2025 in Music&Television
• Watch 950 Weather Reports Presented by David Lynch, Straight from His Los Angeles Home, 22 Jan 2025 in Film&YouTube
• The Story of How Quentin Tarantino Became a Filmmaker and Created Pulp Fiction, as Told by Quentin Tarantino, 21 Jan 2025 in Film
• Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation, 20 Jan 2025 in Film&Sci Fi
• The Wide-Ranging Creative Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Discover His Films, Music Videos, Cartoons, Commercials, Paintings, Photography & More, 16 Jan 2025 in Art&Film
• Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating Fires, 16 Jan 2025 in Current Affairs&History
• Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in Chronological Order, 15 Jan 2025 in Art&Television
• Watch Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur, and Witness the Birth of Modern Animation (1911–1914), 14 Jan 2025 in Animation&Film&History
• Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic Comedy Show, 13 Jan 2025 in Comedy&History&Television
• In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts, 10 Jan 2025 in Books&History&Technology
• Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images, 09 Jan 2025 in Archives&History
• Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Performance at the Newport Folk Festival, 08 Jan 2025 in Film&History&Music
• Why the Tavern Scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds Is a Master Class in Filmmaking, 07 Jan 2025 in Film
• The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929), 06 Jan 2025 in Animation&History
• Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” & “Ithaca”, 03 Jan 2025 in Music&Poetry
• The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema, 02 Jan 2025 in Film
• What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Early Hitchcock Films, Tintin and Popeye Cartoons & More, 01 Jan 2025 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Film&Law&Music
• The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today, 31 Dec 2024 in History&Music
• The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples & Other Famous Structures Took Generations to Complete, 30 Dec 2024 in Architecture&History
• Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088, 27 Dec 2024 in Letters&Literature
• The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets & Critics, 26 Dec 2024 in Books&Literature
• Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers, 26 Dec 2024 in Film
• How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened, 24 Dec 2024 in Music&Television
• How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece, 23 Dec 2024 in Art&History
• The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948), 20 Dec 2024 in History&Photography
• Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine (1983), 19 Dec 2024 in Science&Television
• Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious Objects Flying Over New Jersey, 18 Dec 2024 in Current Affairs&History&Radio
• The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained with Animation, 17 Dec 2024 in History&Technology
• How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975), 16 Dec 2024 in Music
• How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra, 13 Dec 2024 in Architecture&History
• Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That Girl & More, 12 Dec 2024 in Television
• The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically Evolved, 11 Dec 2024 in Art&Technology
• Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019, 10 Dec 2024 in History&Music
• Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicted the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & the Existential Questions We Would Need to Answer (1978), 09 Dec 2024 in History&Technology&Television
• The 63 Cuisines of China Explained in 40 Minutes: A Complete Primer, 06 Dec 2024 in Food & Drink&Travel
• Explore an Online Archive of 2,100+ Rare Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels, 05 Dec 2024 in Art&Books&Literature
• Scientists Discover that Ancient Egyptians Drank Hallucinogenic Cocktails from 2,300 Year-Old Mug, 04 Dec 2024 in History&Religion
• Beautiful 19th Century Maps of Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise & More, 03 Dec 2024 in Art&Books&Literature&Religion
• Discover Hannah Arendt’s Syllabus for Her 1974 Course on “Thinking”, 02 Dec 2024 in Philosophy
• Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Creative Process: A Look Inside the Books & Techniques That Allowed His Art to Flow, 29 Nov 2024 in Art
• The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973–2023), 29 Nov 2024 in History&Music
• Explore and Download 14,000+ Woodcuts from Antwerp’s Plantin-Moretus Museum Online Archive, 27 Nov 2024 in Archives&Books&Design&History&Museums
• How Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon Became the First Sci-Fi Film & Changed Cinema Forever (1902), 26 Nov 2024 in Film&History
• How Rasputin Inspired the “Fictitious Persons” Disclaimer Commonly Seen in Movies, 25 Nov 2024 in Film&History&Law
• How the Ancient Romans Traveled Without Maps, 22 Nov 2024 in History&Maps&Travel
• An Introduction to the Astonishing Book of Kells, the Iconic Illuminated Manuscript, 21 Nov 2024 in Books&History
• Explore the World’s First 3D Replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Made with AI, 20 Nov 2024 in Architecture&History&Technology
• Behold a Digital Restoration of 655 Plates of Roses & Lilies by Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Greatest Botanical Illustrator of All Time, 19 Nov 2024 in Art&Biology&Books
• Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930), 18 Nov 2024 in Education&Life&Philosophy
• What Victorian People Sounded Like: Hear Recordings of Florence Nightingale & Queen Victoria Herself, 15 Nov 2024 in History&Technology
• Explore Burj Al Babas, Turkey’s Abandoned Town of 587 Disney-Style Castles, 14 Nov 2024 in Architecture&Travel
• A New 3D Scan, Created from 25,000 High-Resolution Images, Reveals the Remarkably Well-Preserved Wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance, 13 Nov 2024 in Film&History
• How Designing Buildings Upside-Down Revolutionized Architecture, Making Possible St. Paul’s Cathedral, Sagrada Família & More, 12 Nov 2024 in Architecture&History&Physics
• Watch the Original Nosferatu, the Classic German Expressionist Vampire Film, Before the New Remake Arrives This December, 11 Nov 2024 in Film
• Behold the Oldest Written Text in the World: The Kish Tablet, Circa 3500 BC, 08 Nov 2024 in History&Writing
• How Car Chase Scenes Have Evolved Over 100 Years, 07 Nov 2024 in Film&Technology
• Watch 70+ Classic Literary Films Free Online: The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gulliver’s Travels, Jane Eyre, and More, 06 Nov 2024 in Film
• Download 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Books, Guides, Magazines & More, 05 Nov 2024 in Archives&Museums
• Discover Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Still-Bizarre Proto-Surrealist Book Les Malheurs des immortels (1922), 04 Nov 2024 in Art&Books&Poetry
• How the Influential Time-Travel Movie La Jetée Was Made (Almost) Entirely out of Still Photographs, 01 Nov 2024 in Film
• Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s Horror Stories Read by Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, James Earl Jones, William S. Burroughs & Others, 31 Oct 2024 in Audio Books&Literature