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The Horrifying Paintings of Francis Bacon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C5TgWHb82A Men­tion Fran­cis Bacon, and you some­times have to clar­i­fy which one you mean: the twen­ti­eth-cen­tu­ry painter, or the sev­en­teenth-cen­tu­ry philoso­pher? Despite how much time sep­a­rat­ed their lives, the two men aren’t with­out their con­nec­tions. One may actu­al­ly have been...

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The Advanced Technology of Ancient Rome: Automatic Doors, Water Clocks, Vending Machines & More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boTUOgka3LA Ancient Rome nev­er had an indus­tri­al rev­o­lu­tion. Grant­ed, cer­tain his­to­ri­ans have object­ed now and again to that once-set­tled claim, ges­tur­ing toward large heaps of pot­tery dis­cov­ered in garbage dumps and oth­er such arti­facts clear­ly pro­duced in large num­bers. Still,...

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Discover the 100-Year-Old Self-Playing Violin, One of the Most Complex Music Players Ever Made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs0mP2cOmJs At the 1910 World’s Exhi­bi­tion in Brus­sels, Lud­wig Hupfeld unveiled the Phono­liszt-Vio­li­na, an instru­ment once dubbed “the eighth won­der of the world.” A lead­ing mak­er of auto­mat­ed instru­ments in Ger­many, Hupfeld built a com­pa­ny that pro­duced every­thing from phono­la...

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