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The Soviet Sex Alphabet by Sergey Merkurov, 1931 (NSFW)

In 1931 a revered Soviet patriot took a break from making grandiose statues of Lenin to create an erotic alphabet ...

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Fifty Years Ago: Angry Brigade and the Motley Crew of Miss World Judges in 1970

“While the girls are changing into their extremely expensive evening gowns...” ...

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31 Visions of Hell, Satan, Demons And Cabbalistic Signs From A 1775 Compendium Of Horrors

Visions of Hell, Satan and Demons according to the Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros, 1775 ...

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Guilty! Orson Welles’ Film of Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’

As Welles told Peter Bogdanovich he was attracted to Kafka's novel as he "had recurring nightmares of guilt" and of being put on trial throughout his life: ...

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Louis Renard’s Superb Illustrations of the East Indies Marine life He Never Saw

Louis Renard was a publisher and spy for the British crown who never left the Netherlands and drew surreal Indian Ocean fish ...

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Alfred Wertheimer’s Incredible Photos of Elvis On The Cusp Of Greatness – 1956

“He permitted closeness. Without that I wouldn’t have gotten my intimate photographs. With Elvis, you ...

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Home of the Beats: How City Lights Booksellers and Publishers Made Radical Poetry Popular

The combination paperback-only bookstore and literary publisher proved revolutionary in the 1950s and 60s. ...

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Artist Recycles Antique Tech Into Intricate Steampunk Spiders

For Budapest-based artist Peter Szucsy everything old is new again. His spiders and crabs are made from old watches medical equipment and cameras. ...

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My Horn Don’t Dig Those Race Troubles – When White Supremacists Bombed Louis Armstrong

The noise from the dynamite reverberated around the Jacob Building, echoing under the balconies and the barrelled ceiling. A woman half a mile away heard it. ...

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Independence Day In Vale Oregon, 1941

The faces, fashions and style in Lee's photographs are suggestive of a monoculture, a small town where things and people are in their right place and fit there. ...

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Nick Peacock’s Hot Pix Volume Two: More Nightclubbing from Atlantis, Glasgow – November 1990

The Sub Club, Glasgow, Saturday night 1990. The dancefloor is crammed. People up, joyous, hands in the air, entranced by the music. It's a club night called Atlantis. ...

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Calaveras: José Posada’s Skeletons Celebrate Life, Mock The Elite And Hail Mexico’s Day Of the Dead (1880 – 1913)

Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada gave us calaveras, representations of the human skeleton seen in Mexico's Day of the Dead ...

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