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Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years
Slovenia · Slovenia

Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years

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Several years ago, we brought you a transcription and a couple of audio interpretations of the oldest known song in the world, discovered in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit and dating back to the 14th century B.C.E.. Likely performed on an instrument resembling an ancient lyre, the so-called “Hurrian Cult Song” or “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” sounds otherworldly to our ears, although modern-day musicologists can only guess at the song’s tempo and rhyt…See the Story
Igor Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944)
World War II · Cambridge

Igor Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944)

In 1939, Igor Stravinsky emigrated to the United States, first arriving in New York City, before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard during the 1939–40 academic year. While living in Boston, the composer conducted the Boston Symphony and, on one famous occasion, he decided to conduct his own arrangement of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which he made out of a “desire to do my bit in …Read Article
How Four Masters—Michelangelo, Donatello, Verrocchio & Bernini—Sculpted David
Florence, Toscana · Florence

How Four Masters—Michelangelo, Donatello, Verrocchio & Bernini—Sculpted David

More than a few visitors to Florence make a beeline to the Galleria dell’Accademia, and once inside, to Michelangelo’s David, the most famous sculpture in the world. But how many of them, one wonders, then take the time to view the three other Davids in that city alone? At the Bargello, just ten minutes’ walk away, reside two more sculptures of the young man who would be king of Israel and Judah, both of them by Michelangelo’s fellow Renaissance…Read Article

Discover the Only Painting Van Gogh Ever Sold During His Lifetime

It may have crossed your mind, while beholding paintings of Vincent van Gogh, that you’d like to own one yourself someday. If so, you’ll have to get in line with more than a few billionaires, and even they may never see one go up on the auction block. This would probably come as a surprise to van Gogh himself, who died destitute — and practically unknown — after an artistic career of just ten years. In that time, he managed to sell exactly one p…Paintings · ArlesRead Article

What Is The History Of Technology Impact

The post What Is The History Of Technology Impact appeared first on Coinworldstory. In this article, I will explore What is The History Of Technology Impact—the progression of human existence in relation to the technology available during various periods of history. Throughout history, from early man’s innovation of tools, cultivation and farming, the emergence of the modern world with its digital marvels and AI, technology has shaped civilizati…See the Story

Iconic Animator Chuck Jones Creates an Oscar-Winning Animation About the Virtues of Universal Health Care (1949)

While our country looks like it might be coming apart at the seams, it’s good to revisit, every once in a while, moments when it did work. And that’s not so that we can feel nostalgic about a lost time, but so that we can remind ourselves how, given the right conditions, things could work well once again. One example from history (and recently rediscovered by a number of blogs during the AHCA debacle in Congress) is this government propaganda fi…United States · United StatesRead Article

Hear Alan Watts’s 1960s Prediction That Automation Will Necessitate a Universal Basic Income

One of the most propulsive forces in our social and economic lives is the rate at which emerging technology transforms every sphere of human labor. Despite the political leverage obtained by fearmongering about immigrants and foreigners, it’s the robots who are actually taking our jobs. It is happening, as former SEIU president Andy Stern warns in his book Raising the Floor, not in a generation or so, but right now, and exponentially in the next…Universal Basic Income · DurhamRead Article

The Very First Coloring Book, The Little Folks’ Painting Book (Circa 1879)

Funny how not that long ago coloring books were considered the exclusive domain of children. How times have changed. If you are the sort of adult who unwinds with a big box of Crayolas and pages of mandalas or outlines of Ryan Gosling, you owe a debt of gratitude to the McLoughlin Brothers and illustrator Kate Greenaway. Their Little Folks’ Painting Book burst onto the scene in around 1879 with such fun-to-color outline engravings as “The Owl’s …Read Article

How Scientists Recreated Ancient Egypt’s Long-Lost Pigment, “Egyptian Blue”

Photo courtesy of Washington State University. It’s become fashionable, in recent years, to observe that we live in an increasingly beige-and-gray world from which all color is being drained. Whether or not that’s really the case, all of us still enjoy easy access to a range of colors that nobody in the ancient world could have imagined, and not just through our screens. Look around you, and your eye will soon fall upon some object or another wh…Egypt · EgyptRead Article

“The Vertue of the COFFEE Drink”: An Ad for London’s First Cafe Printed Circa 1652

The story of coffee goes back to the 13th century, when it came out of Ethiopia, then spread to Egypt and Yemen. It reached the Middle East, Turkey, and Persia during the 16th century, and then Europe during the early 17th, though not without controversy. In Venice, some called it the ‘bitter invention of Satan,’ but the Pope, upon tasting it, gave it his blessing. By 1652, the first café in London had opened its doors on St. Michael’s Alley, br…Coffee · LondonRead Article

The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001)

Ubuweb (many previouslies) is hosting an extraordinary compilation: the 476-song History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music, originally a 62 CD set.Via Openculture with a useful introductory paragraph: "Spanning the years 1937–2001, the collection should especially appeal to those with an avant-garde or musicological bent. In fact, the original uploader of this archive of experimental sound, Caio Barros, put these tracks online in 2009 while a …São Paulo · São PauloSee the Story

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