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August 5, 2020

Thomas Jefferson’s Presidential Portrait Recreated With His Sixth Great-Grandson

For the past 15 years, photographer Drew Gardner has been bridging past and present through his ongoing project titled The Descendants. For this innovative photo series, Gardner has been tracking down the living relatives of history's greatest figures and photographing them as they take on the guise of their ancestors.

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July 30, 2020

This Monumental Memorial to Crazy Horse Has Been Under Construction for Over 70 Years

Did you know that in the Black Hills of South Dakota, not far from Mount Rushmore, the world's second-largest sculpture...

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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.

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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. Many families arrive at local community centers in droves to watch their children perform in delightful amateur productions of it during the holidays. And if you can't make it to a live performance, there are numerous filmed productions you can find online and on television.

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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...

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July 14, 2020

This Virtual Tour Takes You Inside an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh’s Tomb

Egypt's Valley of the Kings is filled with the tombs of the pharaohs who helped make ancient Egypt renowned.

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July 12, 2020

Revealing Photo Highlights the Enormous Scale of a Flag Flown in the Battle of Trafalgar

In 1805, the Battle of Trafalgar secured Britain's supremacy as a naval power over the French and Spanish. Led by Horatio Nelson, the Brits triumphed over a French-Spanish fleet that outnumbered them in quantity and size. To get a sense of how impressive the victory really was, one only needs to look at the size of the flag flown on one of Spain's battleships.

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July 10, 2020

Professor Cooks 3,770-Year-Old Recipes From Mesopotamia and Shares Surprising Results

It's not unusual for people to use recipes from decades past as a way to explore what dishes were like...

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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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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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