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What Are the Origins of the Ouija Board? | HISTORY (opens the original)
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Here's how a 19th-century séance tool become one of pop culture’s most enduring symbols of the occult. Scene from 'What Lies Beneath' featuring a Ouija board (2000). Whether a tool for séances, a spooky sleepover game or a horror movie trope, the Ouija board has been part of American culture since the late 19th century. Featuring an alphabet, numbers and a sliding planchette, the seemingly simple device promises something extraordinary: a way for ordinary people to communicate with the spirit wo
Where Does the Word ‘Scapegoat’ Come From? | HISTORY (opens the original)
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It has roots in an ancient Jewish atonement ritual The scapegoat sent into the wilderness. Described in Leviticus, chapter XVI. Today, a “scapegoat” is someone unfairly blamed for the mistakes or wrongdoing of others, a meaning that seems to have little to do with goats. But the word’s origins are quite literal, tracing back to an ancient Jewish atonement ritual. The meaning of scapegoat has its roots in the biblical book of Leviticus, traditionally attributed to Moses. Leviticus 16 describes an
Why Do Classic Movies Look Different? | HISTORY (opens the original)
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During Hollywood’s golden age, innovations in color, cameras and widescreen formats gave movies a look that remains distinctive today. Many old films have a look that modern movies can’t quite replicate. There’s no single reason why: Film stock, aspect ratios, lenses, lighting and laboratory processing all helped shape the distinctive appearance of classic cinema. As filmmaking transitioned into the sound era in the 1930s, new technologies and processes changed the aesthetic of Hollywood movies,
What Is Voguing? The History Behind the Dance | HISTORY (opens the original)
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Madonna's "Vogue" popularized the dance, but voguing emerged decades earlier in Harlem's ballroom scene. Voguers, members of House of Extravaganza, strike poses at Tracks nightclub, 1989. Vogue, or voguing, is an improvisational dance form originally inspired by the poses that graced the covers and pages of the eponymous fashion magazine. Created by marginalized Black and Latino LGBTQ+ communities in Harlem, the highly stylized dance grew out of New York’s drag ballroom culture in the 1960s and
Who Is Māui in Polynesian Mythology? | HISTORY (opens the original)
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The legendary demigod and trickster become a hero across Polynesia through centuries of oral tradition. Maori totem depicts the mythological warrior figure Maui fishing from his canoe. Few figures loom larger in Polynesian mythology than Māui. The heroic exploits of this trickster demigod have been passed on through oral traditions for centuries across Polynesia, from Tonga and Samoa to Hawaii and Aotearoa—the Indigenous Māori name for New Zealand. While the details of Māui's legend shift from c
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