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Drunk History, which I think we can all agree is the greatest YouTube channel of all time, is coming to HBO this Friday at midnight. It looks like it’s going to be a particularly sweet one too, with Will Ferrel as Abraham Lincoln and Don Cheadle as Frederick Douglass. For those of you have HBO, … Read the full post →“OMG Drunk History HBO special!”

Britain’s Channel 4 is searching for a terminally ill person to volunteer to have his or her body mummified on television then displayed in a museum for 2 years. A documentary production company is working with an unnamed scientists who thinks he has figured out the exact Egyptian mummification procedure. They’ve tested it on pigs … Read the full post →“Volunteers wanted to be mummified on TV”

There’s a documentary premiering on PBS tonight at 9:00 about Louisa May Alcott. In conjunction with a new biography about the author, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women reveals just how varied and rich a life she led. Her father was involved in the utopian and transcendalist movements and was an experimental educator, … Read the full post →“Louisa May Alcott smoked hash”

Commenting on my entry about walking the streets of Pompeii using Google Maps Street View, Stuart of Free History Books asked if I knew of any other sites of archaeological note which could be browsed in Street View. I said I’d look into and so I have. Not only are there other historical wonderlands available … Read the full post →“More Google Street View tourism”

Google Maps has added Pompeii to its street view function!1 That means you can wander its ancient streets as soon as you stop reading this without spending a dime. Just go to Google Maps, type in Pompeii Italy, then drag the little yellow man icon from the zoom controls onto the street. The ones that … Read the full post →“Walk down the streets of Pompeii right now”