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Photos of London’s Cinemas in the 1980s

Photos of London’s Cinemas in the 1980s

In the 1980s Peter Marshall walked about London taking photos of the city's old 'picture palaces' ...
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A Medieval Archbishop’s Graphic Poems Of Jesus and The Cross (810-814)

A Medieval Archbishop’s Graphic Poems Of Jesus and The Cross (810-814)

Rabanus Maurus promoted Christianity with his typographical poems ...
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MAD Magazine’s Spoof Anti-Tobacco Ads

MAD Magazine’s Spoof Anti-Tobacco Ads

Back when 'everyone' smoked, tobacco advertising was everywhere. MAD noticed... ...
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Friedrich Froebel Play Gifts Taught Children To Understand The World In Three Dimensions – 1838

Friedrich Froebel Play Gifts Taught Children To Understand The World In Three Dimensions – 1838

Learning with Froebel’s gifts - the world’s first educational toys ...
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Chuck Jones’ 11 Rules For Drawing Road Runner Cartoons With Mark Twain’s Human Coyote

Chuck Jones’ 11 Rules For Drawing Road Runner Cartoons With Mark Twain’s Human Coyote

How to create a great cartoon character by Chuck Jones ...
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Listen to The Trombone Solo by Arthur Pryor from July 1897

Listen to The Trombone Solo by Arthur Pryor from July 1897

If you listen closely you can hear the crowd outside the window as the famous trombonist plays ...
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Al Jaffee Demonstrates How He Invented Those Brilliant Mad Magazine ‘Folds-Ins’

Al Jaffee Demonstrates How He Invented Those Brilliant Mad Magazine ‘Folds-Ins’

Al Jaffee teaches us how he created those MAD magazine fold ins ...
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Flowers of the Sky by Richard A. Proctor – 1879

Flowers of the Sky by Richard A. Proctor – 1879

A prolific writer, the chapter headings of his book are an intoxicating blend of the scientific, mystical and celestial ...
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Drawings of the Fourth Dimension – c. 1915

Drawings of the Fourth Dimension – c. 1915

Claude Bragdon used mathematical architecture to illustrate unseen fourth dimension ...
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The British Ambassador to Moscow’s Rude Letter Home – April 1943

The British Ambassador to Moscow’s Rude Letter Home – April 1943

The letter involved a Turkish diplomat whose name is, well... see for yourselves... ...
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Buy Prints Ravishing Flowers From The Temple of Flora, 1807

Ravishing Flowers From The Temple of Flora, 1807

Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora from 1807 illustrates the sexual system developed by Carl Linnaeus. ...
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The Easter Bunny’s Coming – Look Busy!

The Easter Bunny’s Coming – Look Busy!

A brilliant album of Easter Bunny snapshots from Robert E. Jackson ...
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