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Hear the Long-Lost Chants of English Monks, Revived for the First Time in 500 Years

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Listening to music, especially live music, can be a religious experience. These...

1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put Online by Dutch Museums

4 days ago

It gets dark before dinner now in my part of the world...

The 1830s Device That Created the First Animations: The Phenakistiscope

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The image just above is an animated GIF, a format by now...

Animated Map Shows How the Five Major Religions Spread Across the World (3000 BC — 2000 AD)

5 days ago

Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam.… Claims to ancient origin and ultimate authority...

Watch Momijigari, Japan’s Oldest Surviving Film (1899)

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At first, film simply recorded events: a man walking across a garden,...

Franz Kafka’s Anxious Letters to His Fiancée, Read Aloud by Richard Ayoade

6 days ago

It can’t have been easy being Franz Kafka. But then, it can’t...

Seven Philosophy Books for Beginners: Where to Start

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One especially appealing aspect of philosophy, as a field of study, is...

Take a Virtual Tour of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London

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The story of the Globe Theatre, the ancestral home of Shakespeare’s plays...

The Origins of Satan: The Evolution of the Devil in Religion

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The Devil, the Beast, Beelzebub, Lucifer, Satan: whichever name we happen to...

Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy

10 days ago

Inferno, Canto X Many artists have attempted to illustrate Dante Alighieri’s epic...

Did Paul McCartney Really Die in 1966? How the Biggest Beatles Conspiracy Theory Spread

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No pop music can have inspired more scrutiny than that of the...

The Ancient Roman Dodecahedron: The Mysterious Object That Has Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries

11 days ago

There isn’t much place for dodecahedra in modern life, at least in...