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How the Bird Sound Effects in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Were Created with a Pioneering Electronic Instrument, the Trautonium
about 18 hours ago
Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best...
Watch a Band Perform the Sound Effects from Pink Floyd’s “Money,” Using a Money Counter, Torn Sheets of Paper & More
1 day ago
When Pink Floyd recorded “Money” in 1972, Roger Waters spliced into the...
The History of Glam Rock and How It Put an End to the Hippie Era
4 days ago
Cast your mind back to the distant year 2021 and recall, if...
How Ancient Greek Warships Worked: The Engineering of the Trireme Explained in 3D Animation
5 days ago
Recall, if you will, the first time you read Book 2 of...
Mark Twain Predicts the Internet in 1898: Read His Sci-Fi Crime Story, “From The ‘London Times’ in 1904”
5 days ago
Most people know that Mark Twain wrote about Jim and Huckleberry Finn...
Read 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and More
6 days ago
For generations of kids in the twentieth century, few pleasures were as...
How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer
6 days ago
I’ve never quite understood why the phrase “revisionist history” became purely pejorative....
What Did Ancient Rome Look Like? A 3D Virtual Tour of the City During the Second Century AD
7 days ago
The description “open-air museum” has often been applied, in various senses both...
Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Music
7 days ago
Like digging for fossils or panning for gold, the research process can...
Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)
8 days ago
It’s common to feel like we know our artists, writers, musicians, actors…...
Watch the Evolution of Manhattan Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 1600 to 2026
8 days ago
A Manhattan without skyscrapers sounds difficult, if not impossible, to imagine today....
Why Mapmakers Put Fake Towns on Their Maps in the 1920s — and the One That Became Real
11 days ago
Open Culture readers may know John Green best for Crash Course, the...