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Book Preview: Buses Are A Comin’ – Driving the Green Book
Although Driving the Green Book is over, today we’re sharing a clip from another powerful story about the fight for racial equality. The new book Buses Are A Comin’ by Charles Person is an account of the Freedom Riders movement, … Continue reading
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Vice World News – The Unfiltered History Tour (Instagram AR campaign)
The Unfiltered History Tour allows users to take a tour of the museum thanks to Instagram filters and immersive audio. Users scan objects including the Rosetta Stone, Parthenon Marbles, and Benin Bronzes to unlock an augmented reality, which steps back … Continue reading
The Unbelievable History of Sunflowers
In this video, we look at the remarkable journey sunflowers have been on throughout their long history. […]
Why did Birds Lose their Teeth?
Every living bird has a beak and weather they are being used for foraging, killing or attracting a mate their bill is paramount for their survival. However, this definitely wasn’t always the case and many millions of years ago nearly … Continue reading
Master cartography and mythical creatures – the world according to the Catalan Atlas | Aeon Videos
The journey from textual descriptions and valiant guesses to the exceptionally accurate maps of today was a millennia-long enterprise of small steps. However, as the US graphic designer and video producer Jeremy Shuback explores in this brief history of mapmaking, … Continue reading
Scientists Sequence the DNA of a Man From the Pompeii Eruption | My Modern Met
By Jessica Stewart on July 2, 2022 https://mymodernmet.com/pompeii-dna/ Over 2,000 people perished when Mount Vesuvius erupted in Pompeii in 79 CE. Now, for the first time, researchers have been able to fully sequence the DNA of one victim. In 79 … Continue reading
BBC Radio 3 – The Essay, New Generation Thinkers 2021, A Brazilian Soprano in Jazz-Age Paris
Adjoa Osei celebrates Elsie Houston, who mixed Afro-Brazilian folk with European opera. Xangô (the god of thunder) and Paso Ñañigo’, composed by the Cuban Moises Simons, were two of the numbers performed by Elsie Houston in the clubs of Paris … Continue reading
How the Vikings Changed the English Language
About 600-900 common English words come from Old Norse that was the language of the Vikings. In this video we look at the history of the Vikings in Britain and how they influenced the English language. If English is not … Continue reading
It All Starts With A Song | Story Corps
Everyone’s heard of James Brown and Stevie Wonder, but how about the women who helped make them who they are? For our last episode of this season, we’ll get to know the unsung icons behind some of the most iconic … Continue reading
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