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New Van Gogh Painting Discovered

Van Gogh apparently never sold a painting during his lifetime, and he probably couldn't hustle this one either. It would probably sell now for millions, even though it's not in his usual charmingly psychotic style.

The History of English in 10 Minutes

This humorous video tells the story of the world's most illogical language (with the possible exception of Chinese), from its Anglo-Saxon origins to the present day. "It has very little to do with England anymore."

Obsessed: Coffee

David Lynch explains his fixation on the damn-fine bean. There are worse things to be obsessed with, I suppose. Like blue velvet.

The 15 Most Trippy Dream Sequences in Film and TV

Including a certain red-room reverie. But surely Rosemary's Baby was aborted here?

The Wizard of Oz, circa 1902-3

It's interesting to see how this story was envisioned before the 1939 movie. The costumes look closer to the original book illustrations, I think.

Yoko Ono's 1966 Indica Gallery Show

The fateful meeting place of John and Yoko. One of the pieces pictured is an apple on a clear plastic stand. You were supposed to watch it decompose. That's ironic if this is where the idea for the Beatles' Apple Corps came from.