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2000-Year-Old Bottle of White Wine Found in a Roman Burial Site
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Frederick Douglass’s Fiery 1852 Speech, “The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro,” Read by James Earl Jones
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Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa Now Appears on Japanese Banknotes
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Kurt Vonnegut Urges Young People to Make Art and “Make Your Soul Grow”
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Watch 1970s Animations of Songs by Joni Mitchell, Jim Croce & The Kinks, Aired on The Sonny & Cher Show
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How a Steady Supply of Coffee Helped the Union Win the U.S. Civil War
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Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth: Watch the Six-Part Series with Bill Moyers (1988)
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Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s Works Now Available in a New Digital Archive

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Why You Do Your Best Thinking In The Shower: Creativity & the “Incubation Period”
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The Story of Lee Miller: From the Cover of Vogue to Hitler’s Bathtub

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Martin Mull (RIP) Satirically Interviews a Young Tom Waits on Fernwood 2 Night (1977)
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Rare Video Captures 29-Year-Old Luciano Pavarotti in One of His Earliest Recorded Performances (1964)
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How “Space Oddity” Launched David Bowie to Stardom: Watch the Original Music Video From 1969
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Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s Works Now Available in a New Digital Archive
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George Orwell Identifies the Main Enemy of the Free Press: It’s the “Intellectual Cowardice” of the Press Itself
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Steven Van Zandt Creates a Free School of Rock: 100+ Free Lesson Plans That Educate Kids Through Music
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Isaac Asimov’s Favorite Story “The Last Question” Read by Leonard Nimoy
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A Close Look at Beowulf-Era Helmets & Swords, Courtesy of the British Museum
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How the 18th-Century French Media Stoked a Werewolf Panic
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Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s Works Now Available in a New Digital Archive
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Enter a Huge Archive of Amazing Stories, the World’s First Science Fiction Magazine, Launched in 1926 www.openculture.com/2024/06/a-hu...

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Watch Andy Warhol Eat an Entire Burger King Whopper–While Wishing the Burger Came from McDonald’s (1981)
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Pristine Footage Lets You Revisit Life in Paris in the 1890s: Watch Footage Shot by the Lumière Brothers
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Gustave Doré’s Macabre Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1884) www.openculture.com/2024/06/gust...

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How the 18th-Century French Media Stoked a Werewolf Panic

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How Sci-Fi Writers Isaac Asimov & Robert Heinlein Contributed to the War Effort During World War II
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Get Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates: Coursera Is Offering 40% (or $159) Off of Coursera Plus Until June 23

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Tracking Pianist Yuja Wang’s Heartbeats During Her Marathon Rachmaninoff Performance
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How Las Vegas’ Sphere Actually Works: A Looks Inside the New $2.3 Billion Arena
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World Religions Explained with Useful Charts: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity & More
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How the Ancient Greeks & Romans Made Beautiful Purple Dye from Snail Glands

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How Carl Jung Inspired the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous

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The Amazing Engineering of Roman Baths
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What’s Under London? Discover London’s Forbidden Underworld

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The Evolution of Hokusai’s Great Wave: A Study of 113 Known Copies of the Iconic Woodblock Print

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Roger Federer’s Dartmouth Commencement Address: “Effortless Is a Myth” & Other Life Lessons from Tennis
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Watch Philosophy Lectures That Became a Hit During COVID by Professor Michael Sugrue (RIP): From Plato and Marcus Aurelius to Critical Theory
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What’s Under London? Discover London’s Forbidden Underworld

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16th-Century Japanese Historians Describe the Oddness of Meeting the First Europeans They Ever Saw

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Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy
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Warhol’s Screen Tests of Lou Reed, Dennis Hopper, Nico & More

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The First Films of Great Directors: Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Tarantino & Truffaut

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“Joe Strummer’s London Calling”: All 8 Episodes of Strummer’s UK Radio Show Free Online
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Monty Python’s Best Philosophy Sketches: “The Philosophers’ Football Match,” “Philosopher’s Drinking Song” & More
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Hunter S. Thompson Interviews Keith Richards, and Very Little Makes Sense (1993)

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Hear Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful & More

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The Best Animated Films of All Time, According to Terry Gilliam

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23-Year-Old Eric Clapton Demonstrates the Elements of His Guitar Sound (1968)
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Roger Federer’s Dartmouth Commencement Address: “Effortless Is a Myth” & Other Life Lessons from Tennis
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What’s Under London? Discover London’s Forbidden Underworld www.openculture.com/2024/06/what...

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