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[60 fps] Views of Tokyo, Japan, 1913-1915

What Did Ancient Rome Greece and Egypt Look Like? (Cinematic Animation)

The Past We Can Never Return To – The Anthropocene Reviewed

Published on May 24, 2020 Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

"In September of 1940, an 18-year-old mechanic named Marcel Ravidat was walking his dog, Robot, in the countryside of Southwestern France when the dog disappeared down a hole. Robot eventually returned but the next day, Ravidat went to the spot with three friends to explore the hole.

And after quite a bit of digging, they discovered a cave with walls covered with paintings, including over 900 paintings of animals, horses, stags, bison and also species that are now extinct, including a wooly rhinoceros. The paintings were astonishingly detailed and vivid with red, yellow and black paint made from pulverized mineral pigments that were usually blown through a narrow tube, possibly a hollowed bone, onto the walls of the cave. It would eventually be established that these artworks were at least 17,000 years old."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux

Pharoah Ramesses VI Tomb

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=NeiMEZa9d93&mls=1

Some of the safer rides at Coney Island in the 1930s and 1940s.

Published on Mar 18, 2019 Michael Hearst

The History of the Hoodie

The 3,000-year history of the hoodie | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series

Published on Nov 3, 2018

"The hoodie is a lot more than just a comfy sweatshirt. Design curator Paola Antonelli takes us through its history."

Hope Garland: 1918

via Shorpy

"March 25, 1918. "Garland, Hope, Miss, portrait photograph." Science, interested in. 5x7 inch glass negative by Arnold Genthe."

Old Commercials That Would Be "Politically Incorrect" Today

Published on May 2, 2017 FredFlix

"There was nothing wrong with these TV ads at the time. But they wouldn't air in these 'Oh, wait, I'm offended' days."

A brief history of goths - Dan Adams

Published on May 18, 2017 TED-Ed

A Brief History On The Fear of Immigrants

Published on Feb 2, 2017 AsapTHOUGHT

The World's Most Famous Teapot: The Utah Teapot

Published on Nov 21, 2016 Tom Scott

"At the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California, there sits a small teapot. It's the world's most famous teapot, after a computer graphics researcher called Martin Newell digitised it. You've probably seen it: here's its story. And thanks to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California: you can visit them online here: http://www.computerhistory.org/"

Where Do Domestic Cats Come From?

Published on Oct 20, 2016 SciShow

"Do you give ancient Egypt credit for the domestication of cats? That’s what many people think! But, with some new evidence, it seems that cats became our cuddly counterparts a little further east and because of an emerging pest problem.

Hosted by: Hank Green"

Cold Wars, Cruise Ships, and the Northwest Passage

Published on Sep 29, 2016 Tom Scott

"There are a few communities, up in northern Canada, with a dark history and a worrying future. Resolute is one of them, sat at the east of the once-legendary Northwest Passage. In a few years, it might be a tourist destination. Here's why."

Virtually Unwrapping the En-Gedi Scroll

Published on Sep 21, 2016 VisCenter

"University of Kentucky Professor Brent Seales and his team have further unlocked writings in the ancient En-Gedi scroll - the first severely damaged, ink-based scroll to be unrolled and identified noninvasively. Through virtual unwrapping, they have revealed it to be the earliest copy of a Pentateuchal book – Leviticus – ever found in a Holy Ark.

This video describes the process by which the text in the En-Gedi scroll was revealed."

Great Minds: James Clerk Maxwell, Electromagnetic Hero

Published on Sep 15, 2016 SciShow

"Saturn’s rings, colored photography, and the discovery of electromagnetic waves all have have one thing in common. James Clerk Maxwell. Discover for yourself all the amazing contributions Maxwell made to science.

Hosted by: Hank Green"

A Brief History of Life: Rise of the Humans

Published on Aug 17, 2016 SciShow

"With the non-avian dinosaurs extinct, it was time for mammals to take over. Finally, in the tiniest sliver of the history of life, humans emerge.

Hosted by: Michael Aranda"

Weaving the Bridge at Q’eswachaka

Published on Jun 5, 2015 SmithsonianNMAI

"Produced for the exhibition "The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire" (http://americanindian.si.edu/inkaroad/), on view at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., through June 1, 2018. Every year, local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon use traditional Inka engineering techniques to rebuild the Q'eswachaka Bridge. The old bridge is taken down and the new bridge is built in only three days. The bridge has been rebuilt in this same location continually since the time of the Inka. This video is narrated by John Ochsendorf, professor of civil engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and produced by Noonday Films."

Seventy Years of Los Angeles, Then and Now | The New Yorker

Published on Jul 18, 2016 The New Yorker

"A split-screen tour of what the same streets in downtown L.A. looked like in the nineteen-forties and today."

King Tut's Knife

via Space.com

"The weapon, now on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, was described in 1925 by Howard Carter, who three years before had discovered the treasure-packed tomb, as "a highly ornamented gold dagger with crystal knob."

Made of non-rusted, homogeneous metal, the finely manufactured blade features a decorated gold handle. It is completed by a gold sheath garnished with a floral lily motif on one side and with a feathers pattern on the other side, terminating with a jackal's head.

Now dramatic technological improvements have allowed the researchers to determine the composition of the blade.

'Meteoric iron is clearly indicated by the presence of a high percentages of nickel,' main author Daniela Comelli, at the department of Physics of Milan Polytechnic, told Discovery News..."