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With the help of Keith Haring, Eric Orr created the four-issue series in 1986.

Meet the woman dubbed the "poetess of perfume" in 1917.

Amphoras and anchors at a popular stop on east-west trade routes.

13 feet of divine, cheesy goodness.

"Barracoon" tells the story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade.

Should they be on display?

It turns out the “minimal nutritional requirements for life” are quite minimal indeed.

The highlights of the lowlights.

For all your writing and sketching needs, or when you just want to look cool in a coffee shop.

It doesn't usually involve sledgehammers in a parking lot.

Even the lunch menu had a nationalistic agenda.

Engraved pieces of foil aimed to ensure the spirits of worthy dead people made it safely to Elysium.

They conspired to replace chicha with clean, healthy beer.

When wildfires, earthquakes, floods, and other crises delivered one wallop after another, bravery, kindness, and creativity fought back.

A nation embraces the Marquis de Sade's controversial masterpiece.

Archaeologists think that calf's foot jelly was its signature dish.

Watch the influential Modernist sculptor at work in this 1953 documentary.

Make beautiful sci-fi music and lots of other weird noises with your very own theremin.