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Elephants of War: Elephant armor (bargustavan-i-pil) from India, circa 1600
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View ArticleThe Art Of Making Noodles By Hand: Peter Song and Shuichi Kotani
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Making strawberry hard candy drops on a restored machine from Alaska, circa 1890
This machine belongs to and has been returned to the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Museum in Skagway Alaska, and to this day there aren’t many good roads into it… Imagine how hard it would have...
View ArticleElizabeth Magie and the history of the board game Monopoly
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400,000 years ago, humans and Neanderthals created fire. This ignited a relationship between people and photons that changed the course of mankind—and continues to evolve to this day. Take a tour...
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In the lush forests of modern-day Central African Republic, sometime between 1800 and 1500 BC, craftsmen are believed to have discovered iron. New evidence indicates that ironworking began in the heart...
View ArticleBicycle Models from 1818 to the 1890s
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From its blood-like hue to its potential to sustain life, Mars has intrigued humankind for thousands of years. Learn how the red planet formed from gas and dust and what its polar ice caps mean for...
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In Search of Forgotten Colours – Sachio Yoshioka and the Art of Natural Dyeing
Sachio Yoshioka is the fifth-generation head of the Somenotsukasa Yoshioka dye workshop in Fushimi, southern Kyoto. When he succeeded to the family business in 1988, he abandoned the use of synthetic...
View ArticleHow to make a Renaissance sugar sculpture
Learn how to make a sugar sculpture, a small yet luxurious art spectacle from the Renaissance Period. Food historian Tasha Marks demonstrates how to create these displays from a sugar plate recipe in...
View ArticleDoes ‘the ozone hole’ hold the secret to fixing climate change?
We don’t hear much about ‘the hole‘ in the ozone layer anymore. That’s because we’ve all but fixed it, thanks to consumer choices and a massive international agreement called the Montreal Protocol. Can...
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Elephants of War: Elephant armor (bargustavan-i-pil) from India, circa 1600
‘Fearsome war elephants fully clad in armor‘ were a thing. Natasha Bennett, a curator at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, England, introduces this stunning mail and plate elephant armor...
View ArticleThe Art Of Making Noodles By Hand: Peter Song and Shuichi Kotani
Throwing, twisting, stretching, pulling, multiplying. In the first half of this Tasty video, Kung Fu Kitchen‘s noodle master Peter Song demonstrates how he handmakes his restaurants’ famous noodles:...
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Making strawberry hard candy drops on a restored machine from Alaska, circa 1890
This machine belongs to and has been returned to the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Museum in Skagway Alaska, and to this day there aren’t many good roads into it… Imagine how hard it would have...
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