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During the Revolutionary War, food was often at the center of the clash between the American colonists and the British. From the Boston Tea Party to coffee riots, Americans used food to express their anger at the British. Others stocked up on rum and Made...

Let’s bust one Great Depression myth right off the bat, courtesy of Megan McArdle: “even at the height of the Depression, when a quarter of the workforce was unemployed, most people were not on relief, and most were not suffering malnutrition.” Even if it...

In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the stories we tell about witches and hags. It's definitely unfortunate that a lot of social orders have generated stories about evil women with magical powers. Today we're going to look at a few of those stories,...

In this video we'll go over Dean Radin Ph.D guide to welding real magic, ones ability to manipulate the quantum with a trained mind and a disciplined practice, in order to manifest reality as one desires.

This salt can be used in your magical workings to protect your home, purify and cleanse a space, and to break bad luck.

Before there were skyscrapers, space stations, or AI companions with poetic flair, there were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—a roll call of humanity’s most astonishing achievements in architecture, artistry, and sheer audacity.

In this talk Vishen Lakhiani, author of "The Code of the Extraordinary Mind" and founder of Mindvalley shares his model for understanding how human beings expand their levels of consciousness and brings into place ideas from the leading teachers at Mindva...

An inspirational and profound speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts. Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts - 'Nature of Consciousness' from Human Consciousness”

If the word “Nahua” sounds unfamiliar to you, it’s probably because you’re more used to hearing them referred to as the Aztec. The history is complicated, but the name Aztec was popularized by a German explorer in the 1800s to describe the powerful Mesoa...

The Black Death killed around one-third or about 25 million people in Europe during the 1300s. This is a staggering number, which is why the Bubonic Plague was once the most feared disease in the world. Don't miss today's epic new video that reveals where...

Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik, along with a host of other linguists and language experts, takes a look at some of the most interesting and distinct accents around t...

Did you realize how many accents there are in the UK? If you're FROM the UK you might not even have sat down and counted what you know. There are quite a few. Check it out!

Why was Absinthe illegal?

The Honey Hunters of Nepal have a 260 year-old tradition of scaling mountains in search for a rare honey only found in the Himalayas that makes people hallucinate. We travel to the depths of the country of Nepal in search for these brave people and captur...

Join our curators to explore the British royals' love of railway travel—a special relationship that produced fascinating bespoke trains. The continued use of rail travel by the royal family marked a growing shift towards how we currently imagine the monar...

It turns out ketchup's origins are anything but American. Ketchup comes from the Hokkien Chinese word, kê-tsiap, the name of a sauce derived from fermented fish. It is believed that traders brought fish sauce from Vietnam to southeastern China.