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July 26, 2020

Artificial Intelligence Brings New Life to a 1911 Film About Life in New York City

Imagine the streets of New York City at the turn of the 20th century. Horse-drawn buggies share the road with brightly colored automobiles. Women, donning large bustles and matching millinery, amble beside their suited beaus as they make their way into department stores. Now you can see these historic scenes (and many more)

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History

July 21, 2020

How Bob Dylan Going Electric in 1965 Shocked the World

There is something truly magical about music festivals.

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History

July 17, 2020

How Famed Ballet Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov Leapt Into Hearts Around the World

Embed from Getty Images Perhaps the most famous ballet in popular culture is, arguably, The Nutcracker.

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History

July 14, 2020

Davy Crockett: From the Alamo to Walt Disney and Everywhere in Between

Davy Crockett, the famous congressional frontiersman who died during the siege of the Alamo Mission, is just as well known for his real-life exploits as his comic book adventures and romps through Walt Disney’s cinematic playground. He is truly a pop culture icon having featured in theater, comics, ballads, feature films, and television series.

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Art

July 8, 2020

The Colorful History of Depression Glass and Its Continued Popularity

Have you ever looked into your grandmother’s china cabinet and found a few pieces of lightly tinted glassware?

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Photography

July 8, 2020

Sailors Capture Spectacular Images of the Changing Skies While at Sea

From a young age, many of us are captivated by the flickering lights of the night sky that seem just...

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History

July 7, 2020

17th-Century Warship Pulled From Icy Baltic Sea Is Almost Perfectly Preserved

Titanic. Lusitania. Arizona. These are the names that come to mind when we think of ships that met tragic ends, but the Swedish warship, Vasa, is not as readily available in our memories. The Vasa was a brightly painted spectacle of maritime design commissioned by the Swedish monarchy under Gustav Adolf II in the early 17th century.

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Resources

June 24, 2020

Incredibly Detailed Hand-Illustrated Map Gives You an Intricate Look at the MET’s Collections

It's practically a Metropolitan Museum of Art tradition for visitors to get lost in the depths of the massive Beaux-Arts building...

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Animals

June 23, 2020

This Moth Has Brilliant Wing Patterns That Look Like Tiger Eyes

On one of David Weiller's many expeditions to the rainforest, he was drawn like a moth to a flame to...

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History

June 22, 2020

Rare Book Collector Reveals Tibetan Book Printed Before the Gutenberg Bible

The Gutenberg Printing Press truly revolutionized western society with its introduction of mass produced printed materials for a relatively cheap price, which helped encourage literacy among the lower classes. However, the practice of printing books had actually been occurring long before 1450 in the Far East. A rare book collector on Twitter recently debuted a Sino-Tibetan “concertina-folded book” that is estimated to have been printed in Beijing around 1410.

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