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Duolingo Has Created a Course for “High Valyrian” the Dragon Language From Game of Thrones
Having already delighted Trekkie fans with their course on the Klingon language from Star Trek, the language learning app Duolingo has created a course...
Smells Like History: Academics Recreate the Lost Smells of Europe for Museums
Sometimes, the most powerful jolt of nostalgia one can feel is that which comes after picking up the scent of something iconic of one's...
The Painting Paid for Grilled Cheese Sandwiches 50 Years Ago – Now Earns the Restaurant Thousands
When John Kinnear bought a selection of paintings for an impoverished Nova Scotia painter, his chief hope was that they might buy him a...
Hi-Tech Archaeology Reveals Extraordinary Cave Art Carvings Beneath 2000 Years of Sediment in Alabama
New details of our past are coming to light, hidden in the nooks and crannies of the visible world.
Digital analysis of rock surfaces reveals...
Guess Who’s Curating New Exhibit at Baltimore Museum of Art? Their Staff of Security Guards
The security guards at the Baltimore Museum of Art get asked a lot in an average day: "Where's the bathroom," "Where's the Impressionist wing,"...
Nursing Home Residents Recreate Famous Portraits From History – And They’re Amazing (LOOK)
A care home has produced a calendar featuring all the old people posing in a series of photos from famous portraits—including The Virgin In...
Diego Rivera’s Dream of a ‘City of Arts’ in Mexico Turns to Reality 80 Years Later
Diego Rivera created many masterpieces, but he envisioned a magnum opus that never came to be in his lifetime—a city of art, where Mexican...
Rainbow Village: 84-Year-Old Saves Neighborhood From Bulldozer By Painting Every Street With Joyful Colors
14 years ago in Taiwan, an 84-year old military veteran painted an entire government village to prevent it from being torn down. Now aged...
Seven Lost Artistic Masterpieces That Were Found in 2021
Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering travel, conflict journalism, science, conservation, and health news.
Light is shining once again...
Researchers Solve Mystery of Scattered Black Glass in Chilean Desert – it Was Made by an Exploding Comet
A vast swath of dark rocky glass littering a Chilean desert has remained a mystery for a decade, but Brown University researchers just confirmed...
Extraordinary Roman Mosaic and Villa Discovered Beneath British Farmer’s Field
Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK.
The initial discovery of the mosaic was made during the 2020 lockdown...
65 Cats Are Treated Like Favored Guests at the World Renown Hermitage Museum in Russia
Like the building itself, the cats which roam freely around the basement of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg have endured through changing fortunes.
Originally brought...
The Inspiring Story of The Parkinson’s Painter Who Finally Followed His Dream
13 years ago, after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a 65-year-old military veteran and social worker, decided he would turn his dark diagnosis into...
Earliest Prehistoric Art Discovered –And it Turns Out to Be Hand Prints Made by Children 170,000 Years Ago
Written by Matthew Bennett and Sally Christine Reynolds at Bournemouth University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The...
Polish Girl With Down Syndrome Sends Painting to Queen Elizabeth and is ‘Over the Moon’ Receiving a Reply – LOOK
12-year-old Wanessa Bąkowska has been pouring her sensitivity through paints and onto canvas since she adopted as a little girl with Down syndrome.
From Lipka,...
Iconic Moments of This Century Get Reimagined as ‘Ancient’ Cave Art – LOOK
Major moments from modern history have been reimagined as ‘ancient’ cave art.
2,000 UK adults had their say on what moments from the worlds of...
This Week’s Inspiring Horoscopes From Rob Brezsny’s ‘Free Will Astrology’
Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly...
A Fisherman’s Underwater Sculptures Have Stopped Illegal Trawling – Bringing Art and Biodiversity Back to Italian Bay
When Paolo Fanciulli dropped 39 large marble sculptures down to the bottom of the sea off Tuscany's Maremma Regional Park, it was not his...
Premature Baby Becomes a Prodigy at 3, Joining Mensa After They Run Out of Questions For the Toddler
This story was submitted to GNN by one of our readers. If you have an interesting story of kindness or positivity, be sure and...
Historian Believes the Holy Grail and Lost Ark of the Covenant May be Hidden Under This House in English Countryside
A real-life Indiana Jones believes he may have found the secret location of the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant—under a house...