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My Goal is to Rule the World! – Brilliant Photos of Pre-fame Madonna in 1982 by Richard Corman

My Goal is to Rule the World! – Brilliant Photos of Pre-fame Madonna in 1982 by Richard Corman

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself. ...
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Inside Jayne Mansfield’s “Pink Palace,” the Graceland of Hollywood

Inside Jayne Mansfield’s “Pink Palace,” the Graceland of Hollywood

I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star... ...
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The Chance that Brought David Bowie to Nic Roeg for ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’

The Chance that Brought David Bowie to Nic Roeg for ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’

Roeg knew he had found the man to play the lead in his next film The Man Who Fell to Earth—the story of humanoid alien called Thomas Jerome Newton, who comes to this world in search of water. ...
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Len Speier’s New York City: Street Photography Without Questions

Len Speier’s New York City: Street Photography Without Questions

"If I see a good shot, I shoot and don’t ask questions; if a person sees that I am shooting, I won’t abandon the shot." ...
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50,000 Klan Members March on Washington, D.C. in 1925. 150,000 People Show Up to Watch

50,000 Klan Members March on Washington, D.C. in 1925. 150,000 People Show Up to Watch

Over 50,000 members in full regalia took over the streets of the U.S. capital city ...
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Anny Ondra, Alfred Hitchcock, a Nazi Heavyweight Boxer and the First Actress to the Bishop Joke

Anny Ondra, Alfred Hitchcock, a Nazi Heavyweight Boxer and the First Actress to the Bishop Joke

Some of the first words ever spoken on British film were uttered in a sound-test for Anny Ondra one of the stars in Blackmail and which featured a short conversation between Hitchcock and the Polish-Czech actress. ...
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Four Photographs of Toulouse-Lautrec Defecating On A Beach – 1898

Four Photographs of Toulouse-Lautrec Defecating On A Beach – 1898

In 1898, revolutionary French artist Toulouse-Letrec went to the toilet on a French beach. His friend took these four photographs ...
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“This is Your Hour” – The Party That Ended All Parties – British VE Day Celebrations

“This is Your Hour” – The Party That Ended All Parties – British VE Day Celebrations

My dear friends, this is your hour. This is not victory of a party or of any class. It’s a victory of the great British nation as a whole. We were the first, in this ancient island, to draw the sword against tyranny. After a while we were left all alone against the most tremendous military power that has been seen. - Churchill, 8 may 1945 ...
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The Great American Road Trip – In Mid-Century Kodachrome

The Great American Road Trip – In Mid-Century Kodachrome

  Time to go on a great American road trip. It's the trip Europeans love ...
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The First Automated Grocery Store Opens in 1937

The First Automated Grocery Store Opens in 1937

Keedoozle…. It sounds like the name of an Internet startup. The idea was intended to “disrupt” an entire industry, changing the way Americans do their shopping. ...
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“A Sense of Sex and the Night” – the History of Piccadilly Circus

“A Sense of Sex and the Night” – the History of Piccadilly Circus

A ‘centre of gaiety’ as one 1930s guide book put it, where thousands and thousands of people and almost as many cars ‘struggle in vain for freedom’. ...
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Robert Mitchum was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Robert Mitchum was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Robert Mitchum left home when he was fourteen. He didn't run away like he later claimed in TV interviews when he was more famous and the conversation needed a little spin to keep it going. His mother packed his suitcase and made him a sandwich for the journey. ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... 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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    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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