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The National Emergency Library Makes 1.5 Million Books Free to Read Right Now
30th March, 2020While the coronavirus has closed physical libraries in countries all around the world, more resources for books open to the public on the internet. Most recently, we have the Internet Archive’s opening of the National Emergency Library, “a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed”.
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Watch 85,000 Historic Newsreel Films from British Pathé Free Online (1910-2008)
13th March, 2020While “the newsreel may be history,” notes the National Endowment for the Humanities, “vast collections of it remain, much of it unseen.” One such collection resides at the archives of British Pathé, “a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivaled in their historical significance.”
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Explore Ancient Athens 3D, a Digital Reconstruction of the Greek City-State at the Height of Its Influence
18th February, 2020Thanks to the last dozen years of work by photographer and visual effects artist Dimitris Tsalkanis, we can experience Athens as it might have been in the form of Ancient Athens 3D.
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Life on China’s low-speed trains
05th December, 2019An interesting photo gallery of what life is like on China’s slow trains.
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Emergency German banknote designs
22nd October, 2019“During the first world war and the ensuing economic crisis, many German towns issued notgeld, or emergency money, to combat cash shortages. The designs range from local fairytales and legends to political messages.”
Some fantastic designs pictured in this online gallery, especially one issued by the Braunschweig public transport authority in 1921.
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