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Josef Skvorecky Recites The Nazis 10 Rules To Combat Jazz

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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1980: Kevin Keegan Models His Harry Fenton Fashion Range

1980: Kevin Keegan Models His Harry Fenton Fashion Range

In September 1980, a year or so after he released his single Head Over Heels in Love, England footballer Kevin Keegan unleashed the "Kevin Keegan Collection at Harry Fenton" on the unsuspecting British public. ...
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The Astonishing Cinematic Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn

The Astonishing Cinematic Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn

Dressed in his linen suit, Panama hat, gold-rimmed spectacles and luxuriant moustache, Kühn directed his wife and children to perform for his camera. ...
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Living Mannequins in A Carnaby Street Shop Window (1966)

Living Mannequins in A Carnaby Street Shop Window (1966)

The shoppers in the street stopped to watch although it wasn't long before the Metropolitan police did too, resulting in a visit to Marlborough Street Magistrates Court for Henry Moss, the owner of the boutique, and a fine of two pounds. ...
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‘I Will Avenge Their Deaths’: Reading An Auschwitz Inmate’s Buried Letters

‘I Will Avenge Their Deaths’: Reading An Auschwitz Inmate’s Buried Letters

“I wanted and I want to live, to revenge the deaths of Dad and Mum, and that of my beloved little sister Nelli" - Marcel Nadjari, Auschwitz 1944 ...
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The Extraordinary WW2 Sketchbook of Victor Lundy

The Extraordinary WW2 Sketchbook of Victor Lundy

For D-Day Lundy and his company were thrown into the infantry. Lundy couldn't believe it and recalled during an oral history interview that during lectures, he "never listened, I was busy sketching." But soon, "I sort of took to it. ... war experience just hypnotizes young men." ...
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Casual Behind the Scenes Photos From the 1967 Filming of Planet of the Apes

Casual Behind the Scenes Photos From the 1967 Filming of Planet of the Apes

Writer, engineer, and spy Pierre Boulle drew heavily on the sciences of mathematics, physics, astronomy, and evolutionary biology for his 1963 novel La Planète des singes, published in English translations (with taxonomic confusion) as Monkey Planet in the UK and Planet of the Apes in the US. ...
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26 Sensational Color Photos Of 1890s Meiji Japan

26 Sensational Color Photos Of 1890s Meiji Japan

No one knows who took these superb hand-colored albumen prints of Japan in the 1890s. ...
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Portraits of London At War by Toni Frissell – January 1942

Portraits of London At War by Toni Frissell – January 1942

“I became so frustrated with fashions that I wanted to prove to myself that I could do a real reporting job” - Toni Frissell ...
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19th Century Portraits Of “Russian Types” by William Carrick

19th Century Portraits Of “Russian Types” by William Carrick

In September 1859 Edinburgh-born William Carrick opened a studio in St Petersburg. With John MacGregor, Carrick produced portraits of locals he called 'Russian Types', sold as cartes-de-visite to tourists. ...
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Meet the Davis Divan: The Outrageous Three-Wheeled Sedan that Almost Made It

Meet the Davis Divan: The Outrageous Three-Wheeled Sedan that Almost Made It

In 1948 the car must have looked like the future to many a prospective auto buyer—that is, had Davis ever delivered on his promises to mass produce the vehicle. ...
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Schoolboy Strikes To Avoid The Cane From Mr Bottoms – 1960

Schoolboy Strikes To Avoid The Cane From Mr Bottoms – 1960

In 1960 a teenager rebelled against the cane at his British school ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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