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• Revisit Daily Life in China in 1917 Through Footage Enhanced and Colorized by AI

  25-05-2026 11:47 via openculture.com
  
  Even for Americans, keeping up with the geopolitical entanglements of the United States has never been an easy task. More than a century ago, just a few months after their country got involved in what’s now known as World War I, they got word that the military of a distant nation had joined their side: China, whose image would have been both opaque and forbiddingly vast. A dozen years before they’d even heard the name Pearl S. Buck, what impressions of that country they had
  
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• Who Would Be King of the United States If George Washington Had Become a Monarch?

  25-05-2026 11:00 via openculture.com
  
  The young George Washington may never have hacked up his father’s cherry tree and refused to lie about it, but his life nevertheless offers plenty of deeds both virtuous and adequately documented. It was no small thing, for instance, to refuse to seek a third term as the first President of the United States of America — much less to exchange that title for “King of the United States of America.” As every enthusiast of American history knows, this set the precedent, only o
  
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