Bundle Somebody marked the spot A pin, a stone, a row of cedars and a stretch of dead canal: places where the marker is modest and the reason is not.
Bundle One painter, followed through a life Essays that follow one painter from place to place, picture by picture.
Bundle One subject, many painters Art-history essays that follow a single subject through centuries of paintings.
Bundle Old houses, restored to sleep in Historic villas, rectories and fincas brought back with care and opened to overnight guests.
Bundle Unreadable, until it wasn't Five things nobody could read, and the people who found a way back in.
Bundle It worked for a hundred years Three enormous answers to one specific problem each, and all three held.
Statue of Lennie Gwyther and Ginger Mick The nine-year-old who rode his pony 620 miles to watch the Sydney Harbour Bridge open
David Rumsey Map Collection 149,000 historical maps online, free, and searchable down to the text engraved on them
Snewpapers Browse three centuries of digitised newspapers, 1730s through the 1960s
Finds
- Timeline: A Visual History of Our World Peter Goes's black-ink history of everything, one oversized spread per era
- French Revolutionary Calendar Today's date in the Republican calendar, with its plant, animal or tool
- The Genius Logic of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet It isn't phonetic, and NATO didn't invent it
- Any Human Ever Draw one life at random from the hundred billion people who have ever lived
- The Invention of Zero Robert Kaplan on zero's journey from Sumerian placeholder to Indian number
- Exactly A history of engineering told in orders of magnitude
- Scarborough Marsh A canal dug to hide ships from the British, still there
- The Lost Art of Carrying Loads Six carry systems that solved it before Cordura existed
- Highgate Cemetery Where Karl Marx and Douglas Adams rest, and vampire hunters once feuded
- Amelia Earhart on the cake bakers A 1932 award speech that turned a backhanded compliment into a rebuttal
- Publius All 85 Federalist Papers, presented one by one as they first ran in 1787-88
- Ike Towell's Grave A 1934 Texas headstone reading AN INFIDEL WHO HAD NO HOPE OF HEAVEN NOR FEAR OF HELL
- Harriet Tubman's Auburn The home, church, and care home Harriet Tubman actually lived among
- Diena — The Timeline of Everything A zoomable timeline of four million events, from prehistory to now
- Statue of Lennie Gwyther and Ginger Mick The nine-year-old who rode his pony 600 miles to watch the Sydney Harbour Bridge open
- The Dog Line A row of chained guard dogs that once sealed off a Tasmanian convict peninsula
- Celestia The forested remains of an 1850s utopia deeded to God
- Friedrich Ebert Memorial The Heidelberg birthplace of Germany's first elected president
- Venetian Bridge Fights in Art Venice's ritual bridge fistfights, the guerre dei pugni, captured in 17th- and 18th-century art
- Alfred Frueh's Miniature Gallery Love Letter A 1913 love letter that unfolds into a tiny paper art gallery
- David Rumsey Map Collection 140,000 historical maps, free and searchable by what's etched on them
- Paris Is a Woman's Town (1929) A digitized 1929 guidebook for American women traveling solo to Paris
- HM Prison Maze (Long Kesh) The sealed prison that held Northern Ireland's 1981 hunger strikers
- Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th- and 18th-Century Art Period paintings of Venice's organized, staged bridge-fighting contests
- The Wound Man A medieval diagram of a man suffering every injury at once
- Kenneth Boulding on how things got that way A one-line theory of everything
- George Washington's poultry counter-espionage A fake history fact about George Washington's chicken-based counter-espionage program.
- Leonardo da Vinci's Reunited Notebooks Manuscripts split for 400 years, now browsable together online
- Yasujirō Ozu's Former Home Sleep in the century-old Kita-Kamakura house where Ozu spent his final years
- Far Out Company 1960s–70s counterculture art archive for design inspiration
- Anne Frank on Beauty Amid Misery On choosing the beauty that still remains.
- Thomas Hardy on Galileo and Verse On how poetic form can disarm a dangerous truth.
- Haskell Free Library & Opera House 1904 opera house where the US–Canada border runs through the seats
- The Map of Metal Interactive genealogy of metal subgenres with curated playlists
- Storied Colors Browseable catalog of 252 pigments spanning 40,000 years
- A Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall, Summer 1989 Restored amateur footage from months before the Wall's collapse
- Chloe VS History A time-travelling LA influencer in ancient Rome, Tang dynasty Chang'an, et al.
- Majestic Studios AI-reconstructed daily life in ancient cities, on YouTube
- M.I.T.'s 1973 Civilization Collapse Model Jay Forrester's 'Limits to Growth' simulation said civilization ends around 2040
- Cucumbers Were Once Called 'Cowcumbers' An archaic English name for cucumbers, still used in some 18th-century texts
- Boulay de la Meurthe — "Worse than a crime; it was a blunder" Not Talleyrand, not Fouché, not Napoleon
- Buckminster Fuller — Animated Population Growth, 1965 Fuller's silent Dymaxion-projection visualisation of human population from 1000 BCE to 1965
- Silphium and the Origin of the Heart Symbol The plant that gave us ❤ — and is being un-extincted
- Snewpapers Browse three centuries of digitised newspapers, 1730s through the 1960s
- Machiavelli — "Force or fraud" Wikiquote's quote of the day, sharpened from *The Discourses*
- Talkie Language model trained only on text published before 1931