Discover Khipu, the Ancient Incan Record & Writing System Made Entirely of Knots
rssfeeds-admin Khipus, the portable information archives created by the Inca, may stir up memories of 1970s macrame with...
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The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
“The three volumes of Green’s Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime...
The Rohonc Codex: Hungary’s Mysterious Manuscript That No One Can Read
Image by Klaus Schmeh, via Wikimedia Commons Magyar, which is spoken and written in Hungary,...
Cats in Medieval Manuscripts & Paintings
Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) never saw a rhino himself, but by relying on eyewitness descriptions...
How the Beatles Wrote Their Songs: From Early Demos to Final Recordings
More than a few of us can claim, with some confidence, to know every Beatles...
How the Beatles Wrote Their Songs: From Early Demos to Final Recordings
More than a few of us can claim, with some confidence, to know every Beatles...
The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796)
Image via Wikimedia Commons On the off chance Lin-Manuel Miranda is casting around for source material for...
The Samurai Who Became A Roman Citizen
Last year, we featured here on Open Culture the story of how a samurai ended...
The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender”
Photo by Al Aumuller, via Wikimedia Commons Like another famous Okie from Muskogee, Woody Guthrie...
David Lynch Remembers Attending the Beatles’ First American Concert in 1964
Though his movies may have benefited greatly from foreign audiences and backers, David Lynch was...