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The Peek-A-Boo Girl Gets Cut: In 1943 Veronica Lake Saved America And A Million Women’s Hair

The Peek-A-Boo Girl Gets Cut: In 1943 Veronica Lake Saved America And A Million Women’s Hair

    In 1943, Veronica Lake (nee Constance Keane) illustrated what could happen to women war ...
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Spomenik: Super-Sized Monuments To Eastern Bloc Futurism

Spomenik: Super-Sized Monuments To Eastern Bloc Futurism

The Communists liked concrete. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, they shaped concrete into huge monuments ...
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Bill Brandt’s Underground Shelter Photographs from November 1940

Bill Brandt’s Underground Shelter Photographs from November 1940

Not long after the Blitz began the Ministry of Information commissioned Bill Brandt to photograph ...
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Watch A Bleak Film Of Every Atomic Explosion Since 1945

Watch A Bleak Film Of Every Atomic Explosion Since 1945

    Walt Disney taught us to love the atom and its wondrous power to ...
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Mark Twain’s Re-Animated War Prayer (1905)

Mark Twain’s Re-Animated War Prayer (1905)

“I don’t think the prayer will be published in my time. None but the dead ...
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A Confederate Flag-Fanned Playboy Model Gore Fest: Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)

A Confederate Flag-Fanned Playboy Model Gore Fest: Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)

Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War. ...
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The Photographs Troll-Face Adolf Hitler Wanted Banned

The Photographs Troll-Face Adolf Hitler Wanted Banned

Adolf Hitler had oddly hairless, podgy legs, a way of fumbling in the pockets of his shorts that ...
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The Battle Of Britain In Rare Color Photos

The Battle Of Britain In Rare Color Photos

On 10 April 1940 Germany attacked. The Luftwaffe launched daylight attacks on British ports and shipping in the ...
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Japs, Japes And Dr Seuss: US Anti-Malaria Warning Posters From World War 2Dr Seuss

Japs, Japes And Dr Seuss: US Anti-Malaria Warning Posters From World War 2Dr Seuss

  In World War II, the US military issued posters warning the fighting folk about malaria. ...
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Synthetic Street USA: America’s Fake Rooftops And Towns of World War II

Synthetic Street USA: America’s Fake Rooftops And Towns of World War II

Synthetic Street USA wasn't a real street. No-one lived in the houses on it. It ...
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Stay Calm!  It’s Just Nuclear Annihilation (A 1950 A-Bomb Instructional Pamphlet)

Stay Calm! It’s Just Nuclear Annihilation (A 1950 A-Bomb Instructional Pamphlet)

Midcentury Americans lived in perpetual fear of nuclear annihilation from the Commies.  Classrooms had regular ...
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In The 1950s Nazi Rocketeer Wernher von Braun Wanted To Build NASA A Gas Chamber In Space

In The 1950s Nazi Rocketeer Wernher von Braun Wanted To Build NASA A Gas Chamber In Space

  Wernher von Braun was the Nazi rocketeer who led NASA’s space program. A member of the SS, ...
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