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Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to Historian Mary Beard

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Everyone in ancient Rome wore togas, surrounded themselves with pure-white marble statues,...

How Paris Became Paris: The Story Behind Its Iconic Squares, Bridges, Monuments & Boulevards

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Even today, the Paris of the popular imagination is, for the most...

Aleister Crowley Reads Occult Poetry in the Only Known Recordings of His Voice (1920)

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Image by Jules Jacot Guillarmod, via Wikimedia Commons In 2016, we brought...

The First Photograph of a Human Being: A Photo Taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838

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You’ve likely heard the reason people never smile in very old photographs...

The Ambitious Engineering Behind the Golden Gate Bridge

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As many as a million people crossed the Golden Gate Bridge on...

Dozens of M.C. Escher Prints Have Been Digitized & Put Online by the Boston Public Library

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In addition to the iconic scene in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, or appearances...

Skiing Down Mount Everest with No Oxygen: It’s a Wild Ride

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From Red Bull’s YouTube Channel: “Ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel becomes the first...

The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas

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Everywhere you look, you can find traces of the ancient Roman civilization...