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Josef Skvorecky Recites The Nazis 10 Rules To Combat Jazz

Jazz was entartete musik (“degenerate music”), or as Nazi spin doctor Joseph Goebbels put it, jazz was "jungle music" ...

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At Home with the Rolling Stones in 1965

At the cusp of mega-fame photographs of the Rolling Stones in their respective homes by Danish photographer Bent Rej. ...

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The True Story of The Holocaust Train Rescued From The Heart of Darkness – Friday, April 13th, 1945

‘I cannot believe, today, that the world almost ignored those people and what was happening. How could we have all stood by and have let that happen? They do not owe us anything. We owe them, for what we allowed to happen to them.’ – Carrol Walsh, Liberator ...

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61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

In the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet Union assured the great unwashed that ploughing fortunes into the space race was good for them ...

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27 Snapshots of Manchester In The 1960s

37 Snapshots of Manchester In The 1970s Via: MMU

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1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls

"Advice my father gave me: never take liquor into the bedroom. Don’t stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect" - Kurt Vonnegut ...

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Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America

During the Depression people used cotton flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes, curtains, diapers, awnings and other household items. Manufacturers got wind of their bags' other uses and began decorating them. Color and patterns added a little style and joy to the common sack dress. Of course, it wasn't all altruistic. ...

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Hugo Boss made uniforms for the SS but American Companies Collaborated with the Nazis Too!

It wasn’t just German companies that gave Hitler a helping hand during WW2. Here are four huge American companies that hardly covered themselves in World War Two glory. ...

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Northern Ireland Troubles 1971: Belfast In 50 Photos

In 1971, the Troubles in Belfast and the rest of Northern Ireland were in full cry. TIMELINE 10 January 1971 - Members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) carried out an early form of 'punishment attack' by tarring and feathering four men who were accused of criminal activities in ...

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Julie Newmar In Playboy, Photos And On Growing Old

Julie Newmar was Catgirl. On April 27, 2013, we went to see Julie take questions at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo at McCormick Place, in Chicago. Julie was the first Catwoman to TV's Batman. Her fabulous portrayal of the comic book temptress in the 1960s Batman has been praised ...

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1941
A textile mill working all night at New Bedford, Massachusetts in January 1941.
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