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Tiffany: A 3,000-Year-Old Name
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The tale of the Monkey King and the Buddha - Ji Hao
Follow Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, as he attempts to outwit the Buddha and escape from his clever traps and imprisonment. -- After wreaking havoc across the heavens and being captured in
What If This Classic Tale Happened Today? #8 - Learn English Through Stories
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The myth of Dionysus’ drunken revenge - Iseult Gillespie
Dig into the Greek myth of Dionysus, the god of winemaking and excess, and his journey to his ancestral home in Thebes. -- Acoetes of Maeonia had been roped into serving as the navigator
The murderous medieval king who inspired "Macbeth" - Benjamin Hudson
Dig into the history that inspired Shakespeare’s tragedy, “Macbeth,” and find out just how much of the play is based on real events. -- Of all Shakespeare’s plays, perhaps none is
The epic Nordic legend of the monster slayer - Iseult Gillespie
Explore the classic poem, “Beowulf,” which follows a heroic prince as he fights to free a kingdom from the monster Grendel. -- An epic written in Old English, “Beowulf” is known for
The Greek tragedy of Oedipus' daughter - Stephen Esposito
Get to know the story of Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, who was determined to give her slain brother Polyneices a proper burial. -- The gods watched as Oedipus’ daughter, Antigone, stole
The Greek myth of the Fates’ prophecy - Iseult Gillespie
Dig into the Greek myth of Meleager, who set out to end a boar’s destruction of his city along with Greece’s best warriors. -- The night of her son's birth, the queen of Calydon was visited
The tale of the brothers who outwitted the demon queen - Malay Bera
Dig into the Bengali tale of brothers Neelkamal and Lalkamal, two princes seeking to end the reign of demons in their kingdom. -- Achinpur was on the precipice of demonic takeover. A mysterious
Can you solve the riddle of Pandora’s box? - Alex Rosenthal
TED-Ed has launched its first ever physical game: Pandora's Legacy! Learn more and get your copy here: -- Pandora is having a decisively bad day. She didn’t set
