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A horse-drawn Vancouver General Hospital ambulance / City of Vancouver Archives, Public Domain The story of an amazing man...
A 1964 Soviet stamp depicts William Shakespeare. “Stamp” via www.shutterstock.com Centuries before the internet, Shakespeare became a global phenomenon. By...
milliganpuss, Creative Commons We’ve never needed Oculus Rift to provide immersive experiences – they’ve been around for as long as...
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10th century CE Greek copy of Aristarchus of Samos’s calculations of the relative sizes of the sun, moon and the...
Wikimedia Commons What would have happened if the Patriots had been defeated in the War of Independence?...
Portuguese Fort Aguada, Goa, India / Photo by Abhijit Nandi, Creative Commons Beginning in the early modern age, European...
Video by Kai-Jae Wang/Harvard Staff Guided by Semitic Museum curator, students create ‘Dream Stela’ replica. By Jill...
The Plimpton 322 tablet. UNSW/Andrew Kelly, Creative Commons A 3,700-year old Babylonian clay tablet reveals an ancient method of constructing right-angled triangles that...
Marble statue of Roman Ceres or Greek Demeter. The Romans inherited their idea of human nature from...
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UNESCO-listed heritage site Machu Picchu attracts around 1,000 tourists a day. Rodrigo Argenton/Wikipedia, Creative Commons Is UNESCO’s prestigious lists of tangible...
Detail, Phidias(?), Parthenon Frieze, c. 438-32 B.C.E., pentelic marble (420 linear feet of the 525 that complete...