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Harvard Removes the Human Skin Binding from a Book in Its Collection Since 1934 (openculture.com)
2 points by geox 8 months ago | past
Winston Churchill received the first ever letter containing “O.M.G.” in 1917 (openculture.com)
2 points by geox 8 months ago | past
Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers (openculture.com)
139 points by geox 9 months ago | past | 73 comments
Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future of Online Education in 1988 (openculture.com)
3 points by billybuckwheat 9 months ago | past
Harold Bloom's List of Works in the "Western Canon" (2014) (openculture.com)
2 points by georgecmu 9 months ago | past
J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016) (openculture.com)
123 points by ecliptik 9 months ago | past | 55 comments
Before Photoshop, Soviets Mastered Erasing People from Photographs and History (openculture.com)
21 points by jethronethro 10 months ago | past
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee's Personal Notebooks Are Now Online (2016) (openculture.com)
4 points by gwintrob 10 months ago | past
Sneaking Rick Astley Lyrics into Quantum Physics Paper (openculture.com)
2 points by tzury 10 months ago | past
The Short-Lived Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved Comic Strips (openculture.com)
3 points by Tomte 10 months ago | past
Calvin and Hobbes Is Still One of the Most Beloved and Influential Comic Strips (openculture.com)
3 points by walterbell 10 months ago | past
How Photos Were Transmitted by Wire in 1937: The Innovative Tech a Century Ago (openculture.com)
4 points by rmason 10 months ago | past
Gertrude Stein Gets a Snarky Rejection Letter from a Publisher (1912) (openculture.com)
1 point by gslin 10 months ago | past
3k Illustrations of Shakespeare's Works in Victorian England in Digital Archive (openculture.com)
3 points by vo2maxer 10 months ago | past
The Getty makes nearly 88k art images free to use (openculture.com)
479 points by coloneltcb 11 months ago | past | 132 comments
French artists in 1899 envisioned what life would look like in the year 2000 (openculture.com)
242 points by gslin 11 months ago | past | 140 comments
Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future in 1982 (openculture.com)
15 points by bookofjoe 12 months ago | past | 8 comments
The Cover of George Orwell's 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear and Tear (openculture.com)
3 points by gslin on Feb 14, 2024 | past
How French Cinema Works (openculture.com)
2 points by PaulHoule on Feb 12, 2024 | past
Roald Dahl Gives a Tour of the Hut Where He Wrote All of His Books (openculture.com)
3 points by timr on Feb 9, 2024 | past
How the FBI targeted Camus, and then Sartre after the JFK assassination (2013) (openculture.com)
128 points by pablode on Jan 28, 2024 | past | 81 comments
The Cardboard Bernini (openculture.com)
2 points by geox on Jan 28, 2024 | past
How an early 1900s boardwalk attraction saved thousands of babies lives (openculture.com)
2 points by geox on Jan 13, 2024 | past
Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm (openculture.com)
1 point by JSeymourATL on Jan 10, 2024 | past | 1 comment
Walking Fosters Creativity (openculture.com)
2 points by simonebrunozzi on Jan 10, 2024 | past
How Toilets Worked in Ancient Rome and Medieval England (openculture.com)
1 point by geox on Dec 29, 2023 | past
New Database Captures the Smells of European History (openculture.com)
1 point by cainxinth on Dec 29, 2023 | past
Why Violins Have F-Holes: The Science and History of the Renaissance Design (openculture.com)
2 points by coloneltcb on Dec 8, 2023 | past
The March of Intellect: Newspaper cartoons and satire in 1820s England (openculture.com)
2 points by hhs on Dec 6, 2023 | past
The New York Public Library Presents an Archive of 860k Historical Images (openculture.com)
3 points by gslin on Nov 28, 2023 | past | 1 comment

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