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82nd & Fifth: Chinese Buddhist Figure
http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/divinity Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/arhat-luohan-china-21.76 "It looks like someone you might know, someone you might talk to." 82nd & Fifth invites 100 curators from...
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82nd & Fifth: Dionysos
http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/centerpiece Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/restored-by-pacetti-vincenzo-italian-1990.247 "One wonders what will an audience in a hundred years think of it." 82nd & Fifth...
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82nd & Fifth: Eros
http://www.metmuseum.org/82nd-and-fifth/enamored Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/bronze-statue-of-eros-sleeping-greek-43.11.4 It's so quiet that you don't think of it as so radical, but actually it's very rare...
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82nd & Fifth: Ptah
http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/idolized Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/cult-image-of-the-god-ptah-egypt-2007.24 "This piece spoke to me when I realized, you don't need a single written word, three thousand...
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Ancient Ghosts
There are records of ghouls and ghost stories dating from very early times, right back to the beginning of literature and with oral traditions going even further back in time. What we find absolutely amazing is that the fascination for the...
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Women's Experience Under Slavery: Crash Course Black American History #11
Slavery was inherently cruel and unjust, and it was cruel and unjust to different people in different ways. Today, Clint Smith teaches you about the experience of enslaved women, and how their experience of slavery was different than men...
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How discovery of the slave ship Clotilda informs U.S. history
The remains of the last slave ship that came to America have been found. In 1860, the schooner Clotilda brought 110 Africans to U.S. shores, decades after it was illegal to import slaves into the country. The wreckage of the boat was discovered...
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The US Constitution, 3/5, and the Slave Trade Clause: Crash Course Black American History #9
The drafting and adoption of the United States Constitution recalled many of the high ideals of liberty and freedom that were espoused during the Revolutionary War. But the compromises that were made to get all of the new states on board...
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The Largest Destruction of Animals in Modern History | The American Buffalo | A Film by Ken Burns
Official website: https://to.pbs.org/buffalo | #AmericanBuffaloPBS The scale of destruction of wild animals in the American West during the 19th century is the largest in known human history. When hide hunters ran out of buffalo, they...
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The Life of Frederick Douglass
He was the first African American nominated for vice president of the United States. He escaped enslavement to become one of America's most prominent abolitionists, an advisor to Lincoln... and a Republican statesman. This is the story...