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Branch Rickey’s Jackie Robinson Scouting Report That Saved America

Branch Rickey (1881–1965) is best known for breaking the color bar when he brought ...

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Life, Love And Murder: A Secret Lodz Ghetto Time Capsule

As well as recording scenes of depravation, abuse, disease and murder, Ross also recorded Jews at home before they were despatched to the death camps at Chelmno nad Nerem and Auschwitz ...

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Residents Share Stories, Photos And Enduring Love For Their Prefab Homes

My passion or rather obsession for prefabs happened by accident very soon after I ...

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Poster Art by the Artist Paul Colin

Paul Colin, who died in 1985 a few days away from his 93rd birthday, was undoubtedly one of France’s greatest poster artists. ...

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Albert Einstein Explains the Meaning Of Life, The Trouble With Girl Scientists And The Secret To Happiness

On September 19, 1946, Myfanwy (Tyfanny) Williams wrote a letter to Albert Einstein (14 ...

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Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom): A Nazi School Book Saves Children From ‘The Poisonous Jew’ (1937)

In 1938, Rupprecht’s illustrations appeared in Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom), an antisemitic book for German children, copies of which made their way into the classroom. ...

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When Papua New Guinea Angels Rescue Allied Soldiers In World War 2

The United States. Office of War Information took photographs of the movements and fighting, including these pictures of the natives risking life and limb to aid the Allied troops. ...

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Men Misbehaving in Mid-Century Adult Magazine Cartoons

Well before Playboy came along, men's magazines had a long tradition of providing risqué cartoons ...

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Ernesto García ‘The Chango’ Cabral’s Bawdy And Brilliant Mexican Movie Posters

Ernesto García 'The Chango' Cabral (18 December 1890 – 8 August 1968) lampooned the good, ...

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Postcards of the ‘Streamline Moderne’ Greyhound Terminals

Greyhound, the intercity bus carrier, that still serves over 3,800 destinations across North America began ...

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Cornel Lucas’s Classic Portraits Of Marlene Dietrich

Cornel Lucas (12 September 1920 - 8 November 2012) photographed movie stars. Working at Denham Studios, in ...

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How to Louse Up a Date! A Guide from 1948

From 1948 comes this guide on how to royally screw-up on a date. The rules ...

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