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Living By Marble Arch In 1978 And Wearing Joe Strummer’s Creepers

Living By Marble Arch In 1978 And Wearing Joe Strummer’s Creepers

Chape bottle of wine (£1.20): My life on the margins with Path Booth, Roddy Llewellyn and Joe Strummer ...
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Dying Trying To Break The Water Speed Record On Loch Ness In 1952

Dying Trying To Break The Water Speed Record On Loch Ness In 1952

John Cobb died attempting to break the World Water Speed Record ...
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“The Future is Ours” – Sydney Teenagers in 1946

“The Future is Ours” – Sydney Teenagers in 1946

We are the fortunate people of the earth. The future is ours. We are strong in the midst of our unharmed land... ...
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Fabulous Photographs of Paris in 1981

Fabulous Photographs of Paris in 1981

“A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.” – Thomas Jefferson ...
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1949 Chicago: A City Of Extremes Photographed By Stanley Kubrick

1949 Chicago: A City Of Extremes Photographed By Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was just seventeen when he sold his first photograph to Look Magazine and just twenty-one when he took these photos of Chicago. ...
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Erotic Illustrations From ‘Invocation à L’Amour – Chant Philosophique’ (1825)

Erotic Illustrations From ‘Invocation à L’Amour – Chant Philosophique’ (1825)

"Father of the human race and of pleasure, "Love, come and fill me with your ...
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‘Duty’, ‘Faith’ and ‘Country’ – The Mercury 6 Flight Story In Photos

‘Duty’, ‘Faith’ and ‘Country’ – The Mercury 6 Flight Story In Photos

This is the story of how John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth ...
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Mark Twain On Racism And What The Anti-Slavery Alphabet Teaches Us About God’s Unjust Love

Mark Twain On Racism And What The Anti-Slavery Alphabet Teaches Us About God’s Unjust Love

Produced by Quakers Hannah and Mary Townsend, The Anti-Slavery Alphabet was showcased at the 1846 Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery society fair. ...
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Edward Gorey Illustrates War of The Worlds (1960)

Edward Gorey Illustrates War of The Worlds (1960)

In 1960 American artists Edward Gorey drew pen and ink illustrations for a 1960 edition of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds ...
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A Veritable Smorgasbord of Vintage Scandinavian Airline Meals

A Veritable Smorgasbord of Vintage Scandinavian Airline Meals

A few years ago for their seventieth anniversary Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) pulled out some old menu cards and and pictures of in-flight meals. Times have definitely changed... ...
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Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881)

Le Monde Physique : Illustrating Scientific Phenomena Beautifully (1881)

illustrations for Amédée Guillemin's encyclopedia make science beautiful ...
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‘A Minor Wonder of the World’ – Speakers’ Corner in London – 1981

‘A Minor Wonder of the World’ – Speakers’ Corner in London – 1981

George Orwell once described Speakers' Corner as "one of the minor wonders of the world", and listened to "Indian nationalists, temperance reformers, Communists, Trotskyists, the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB), the Catholic Evidence Society, freethinkers, vegetarians, Mormons, the Salvation Army, the Church Army, and a large variety of plain lunatics". ...
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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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