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Glorious Vintage Photos of Early Australian Bike Culture from the Beginning of the 20th Century
Glorious Vintage Photos of Early Australian Bike Culture from the Beginning of the 20th Century

What a handlebar koala has to do with skipping 1000 miles from Melbourne to Adelaide.

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Stone Is Not Cold: Miroslav Šašek’s Playful Vintage Children’s Illustrations of Classical Sculpture
Stone Is Not Cold: Miroslav Šašek’s Playful Vintage Children’s Illustrations of Classical Sculpture

Medusa goes to the hairdresser, or what Cicero has to do with press conferences.

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The Bomb and the General: Umberto Eco’s Vintage Semiotic Children’s Book About Peace and Environmental Wakefulness
The Bomb and the General: Umberto Eco’s Vintage Semiotic Children’s Book About Peace and Environmental Wakefulness

How symbols become symbols, or what keeping atoms in harmony has to do with language acquisition.

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An Animated History of Human Communication: 1965 Educational Film about the Telephone
An Animated History of Human Communication: 1965 Educational Film about the Telephone

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How Money Is Made: A 1920 Silent Film from the Royal Mint of Canada
How Money Is Made: A 1920 Silent Film from the Royal Mint of Canada

“In this factory no samples are given as souvenirs, though the practice would be a very popular one.”

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Henri’s Walk to Paris: Legendary Designer Saul Bass’s Only Children’s Book, Resurrected Half a Century Later
Henri’s Walk to Paris: Legendary Designer Saul Bass’s Only Children’s Book, Resurrected Half a Century Later

Half a century of anticipation, or what Parisian buses have to do with little yellow birds.

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Vintage Valentine’s Day Postcards from the Early 1900s
Vintage Valentine’s Day Postcards from the Early 1900s

“If she be not fair for me what care I how fair she be.”

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The Dot and the Line: A 1965 Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster
The Dot and the Line: A 1965 Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster

On finding the girl who is perfect from every direction.

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Time Piece: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Experimental 1965 Film on Time-Keeping
Time Piece: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Experimental 1965 Film on Time-Keeping

An Oscar-nominated abstract meditation on how we experience time.

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Tango: The First Polish Short Film to Win an Oscar, 1980
Tango: The First Polish Short Film to Win an Oscar, 1980

Everything that could happen in a room, happening.

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