Nicki Minaj is the 2022 MTV VMA Vanguard recipient, so to get ready for her big night, we’re looking back at a few of our favorite past VMA performances, including “Anaconda,” “Bang Bang,” “Swish Swish,” and more.

From Taylor Swift’s unforgettable 2019 version of “You Need To Calm Down / Lover” to One Direction’s 2012 rendition of “One Thing,” the VMAs have had countless iconic performances. To prepare for the 2022 MTV VMAs, here’s a look back at some performances...

Worst drought in 500 years. As water levels across much of Europe are at the lowest in centuries, historical artifacts once submerged are now being uncovered. Including this 5,000-7,000 year old "Spanish Stonehenge".

The Younger Futhark, also called Scandinavian runes, is a runic alphabet and a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, with only 16 characters, in use from about the 9th century, after a "transitional period" during the 7th and 8th centuries.

Anglo-Saxon runes are an extended version of Elder Futhark consisting of between 26 and 33 letters. It is thought that they were used to write Old English / Anglo-Saxon and Old Frisian from about the 5th century AD.

The Elder Futhark, also known as the Older Futhark, Old Futhark, or Germanic Futhark, is the oldest form of the runic alphabets. It was a writing system used by Germanic peoples for Northwest Germanic dialects in the Migration Period.

In this video Dr. Mike talks about what killed every president. Yes, EVERY! Some were sketchy. Some were a sign of the times and what was currently available. Others..well...murder. Check it out.

Marie-Juliette Olga "Lili" Boulanger was a French composer and the first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize. Her older sister was the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.

We will be learning about and making Brazil's National Dish! Feijoada is a stew of beans with beef and pork. The name feijoada comes from feijão, 'bean' in Portuguese. It is widely prepared in the Portuguese-speaking world, with slight variations. The ba...

Gustav Mahler has been one of my favorite composers since I discovered Classical Music – and in this video I try to explain why he holds that place, from many angles, channelled through the extraordinary, moving story of Mahler’s life and works.

What is Satie's Furniture Music, and did it give birth to modern-day Muzak, and even more beloved forms of background music such as film music?

After having his first art exhibition at age 13, Salvador Dali rose to become one of the world's most well-known and controversial artists.

René Magritte's surrealist paintings can sometimes be confusing. A great example of that is his Treachery of Images and its confrontational "Ceci n'est pas un pipe" or "This is not a pipe".

“The existence of giants here is confirmed” this was written in a letter to the French Academy of Sciences in 1766 by Dr. Matthew Maty, the secretary of the British Royal Society He was referring to the confirmation of giants at the southern end of South...

During desperate times when civilians in many countries were near starvation, cans of SPAM were a priceless godsend that saved millions of people. Their convenience, durability, and high-calorie content made it ideal for feeding American soldiers during t...