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Panoramic view from the observation deck. Craziest thing about this photo I feel is being able to see the shadows of the building your standing on stretching 2 miles away, almost to StuyTown!
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I understand a popular form of Ancient Greek entertainment was the recitation and singing of epics. How would a performance or recitation work in that time period? Homer's epics at the least take hours to read in English, so would it be read or sung over multiple days in secession or in one go?
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Are there any recorded attempts to climb Mount Olympus in Antiquity? If so, were the climbers punished for trespassing or saluted for a noble and dignified attempt of a quest to the Gods?
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Walt Disney's original Alice in Wonderland is well known for its psychedelic animation and art style. While artistic merit while on drugs was well known by the 1960s, were any of the animators for 1951's Alice in Wonderland experimenting with drugs?
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It's been a legend that the Liberty Bell rang out when the Declaration of Independence was sighned. Did it become a phenomena that as news of Independence was spread, bells were rung in a similar manner across the then 13 Colonies? Is there a record of this even?
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