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Harvard’s 1869 Entrance Exam: Could You Answer Tough Questions About Latin, Greek, Ancient History, Plane Geometry & More
about 20 hours ago
In 2025, Harvard once again began asking applicants to submit an SAT...
How William S. Burroughs Used the Cut-Up Technique to Shut Down London’s First Espresso Bar (1972)
about 21 hours ago
As we’ve noted before, the English coffeehouse has served as a staging...
The Strange History of Lorem Ipsum: How Cicero’s Words Became the World’s Favorite Placeholder Text
2 days ago
Though seldom heard these days, the term “desktop publishing” once opened a...
How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look
2 days ago
Coverage of the refugee crisis peaked in 2015. By the end of...
The Official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube Channel Goes Live: Watch Complete Episodes, Including the Very First
3 days ago
A great many, and perhaps the majority of Americans now between their...
How Nick Drake’s “River Man” Has Captivated Generation after Generation of Listeners
3 days ago
In 1999, Volkswagen aired a television commercial for the Golf Mk3 Cabrio....
What Happens When the Author Directs the Movie: How Robert Rodriguez Recruited Frank Miller to Co-Direct Sin City
6 days ago
In the nineteen-nineties, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez first collaborated on a...
Hear the First Book of Homer’s Iliad Read Aloud in the Original Greek
7 days ago
You can, of course, learn the Greek language as it’s spoken today....
How Conflict Helped Create Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Its Legendary Guitar Solos
8 days ago
Even among the most acclaimed albums ever recorded, not a single one...
Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago
8 days ago
“What has been my prettiest contribution to the culture?” asked Kurt Vonnegut...
An Introduction to the Islamic World: 1,000 Years of History in 19 Minutes
9 days ago
References to Islam in major media can make it sound monolithic and...
The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
9 days ago
It’s almost 35 years ago now that Nirvana’s video for “Smells Like...