The Atlas Obscura Podcast: The Family That Tried To Escape History
In 1978, a team of Soviet geologists working deep in the Siberian taiga came across something they never expected to see: a house. As it turned out, they had stumbled…
In 1978, a team of Soviet geologists working deep in the Siberian taiga came across something they never expected to see: a house. As it turned out, they had stumbled…
I should probably mention that there were in fact two Norman Wilkinsons working in Britain as illustrators in the same period. So if you come across a few decidedly more…
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An investigation of the US’s mass internment of Japanese Americans
Dore and Friedrich make an unconventional couple, united by their contempt for shoes, root vegetables and, above all, society. In 1929 they leave Germany and begin anew on the deserted…
Peter Weiss’s literature of revolt
Shortwave radio opened a portal to the world—then became a weapon in a high-stakes war of propaganda and power.
short documentary that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini's Fascist regime. In the film, an elderly man…
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