Marc Bolan and Born to Boogie: Directed by Ringo Starr (feat: Elton John)
In early 1972, Britain lay aglitter under the spell of Marc Bolan, the corkscrew-haired prince of all the pretty things. With his band,...
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Watch Animated Visualisations of the Bass Lines for Motown Classics
James Jamerson is the Schoenberg of getting from the I chord to the IV chord. He’s algorithmically generating a new pattern every...
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When Bookshop Employees Get Bored.
If you've worked in retail you'll know how boredom can often kick in. These industrious bookshop employees have found a novel way to...
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Bertrand Russell’s Delicious Response To British Fascist Oswald Mosley
Free speech has no limits. If it does, it’s no longer free. But the will to debate the status quo, ridicule the conflicting and disinfect...
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Here’s How Much Each Artist Earned From Playing Woodstock
Woodstock is widely regarded as one of the most important events in music history. The festival, which took place in August 1969, drew...
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Why English Is So Hard To Learn
Language families There are around 6,000 spoken languages in the world today, and some are more distantly related to each other than...
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The Real Story Of John Wojtowicz And The Bank Robbery That Inspired ‘Dog Day Afternoon’
When John Wojtowicz robbed a Brooklyn bank to pay for his lover's gender-reassignment surgery, he inspired the classic film "Dog Day ...
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'Who’s She' Guessing Game Celebrates Accomplished Women Throughout History
Remember the classic guess who? game that originated from the 1970s? Well, Polish designer Zuzia Kozerska has created a far more...
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The Habsburg Jaw And The Cost Of Royal Inbreeding
While marriages between biological relatives were common in the ruling houses of Europe well up until the last century (Queen Elizabeth...
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Why Is English So Hard to Learn?: The Ingenious Poem, 'The Chaos' by Gerard Nolst Trenité
In 1920, Dutch writer and traveler Gerard Nolst Trenité, also known as Charivarius, published a textbook called Drop Your Foreign Accent:...
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Roald Dahl, Who Lost His Daughter to Measles, Writes a Heartbreaking Letter about Vaccinations
Generations of us know Roald Dahl as, first and foremost, the author of popular children's novels like The BFG, The Witches, Charlie and...
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Why ALL music is GOOD music.
Whilst sitting here eating my porridge and my eldest son is harassing me to play something I believe to be awful on Spotify, it dawns on...
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The Padmanabhaswamy Temple: The Temple with Gold Worth $22 Billion in Six Vaults
Dedicated to Lord Vishnu — the Hindu God who is the Protector of the Universe — the Padmanabhaswamy temple is one of 108 main shrines...
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Paula Hitler: The Surprisingly Quiet Life Of Adolf’s Little Sister
In 1930, a woman named Paula Hiedler was fired from her job at an insurance company in Vienna, Austria. She’d been a hard worker, a...
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Hear Freddie Mercury’s Vocals Soar in the Isolated Vocal Track for “Somebody to Love”
For some time now, certain fans of Queen have sought the elusive answer to the question “what made Freddie Mercury such an incredible...
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