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Poster Art by the Artist Paul Colin

Poster Art by the Artist Paul Colin

Paul Colin, who died in 1985 a few days away from his 93rd birthday, was undoubtedly one of France’s greatest poster artists. ...
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Albert Einstein Explains the Meaning Of Life, The Trouble With Girl Scientists And The Secret To Happiness

Albert Einstein Explains the Meaning Of Life, The Trouble With Girl Scientists And The Secret To Happiness

  On September 19, 1946, Myfanwy (Tyfanny) Williams wrote a letter to Albert Einstein (14 ...
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Beautiful World: Illustrations From The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1907)

Beautiful World: Illustrations From The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1907)

The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary was published in Russia from 1890 to 1907. The ...
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The Mars Gazette: An Early 20th Century Drug Dealer’s Journeys In Space

The Mars Gazette: An Early 20th Century Drug Dealer’s Journeys In Space

  The Mars Gazette is a booklet describing the journey of pitchman C. B. Hustler ...
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Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom): A Nazi School Book Saves Children From ‘The Poisonous Jew’ (1937)

Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom): A Nazi School Book Saves Children From ‘The Poisonous Jew’ (1937)

In 1938, Rupprecht’s illustrations appeared in Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom), an antisemitic book for German children, copies of which made their way into the classroom. ...
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The Distances Between New York Streets And Phantom Avenues (1892)

The Distances Between New York Streets And Phantom Avenues (1892)

  New York City's grid system is not an exact science. Streets are not equally ...
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Bikinis on Record: 35 Album Cover Beach Girls of the 1960s-1980s

Bikinis on Record: 35 Album Cover Beach Girls of the 1960s-1980s

What better method to sell records than to put a young surfer girl on the ...
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Fantastic Old Japanese Posters Of Political Campaigns

Fantastic Old Japanese Posters Of Political Campaigns

These Japanese political posters from the mid and late 20th Century are fabulous. They skewer ...
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The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

  I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published ...
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When Papua New Guinea Angels Rescue Allied Soldiers In World War 2

When Papua New Guinea Angels Rescue Allied Soldiers In World War 2

The United States. Office of War Information took photographs of the movements and fighting, including these pictures of the natives risking life and limb to aid the Allied troops. ...
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Strange and Wonderful Illustrations from Vintage Science Books

Strange and Wonderful Illustrations from Vintage Science Books

Look through about any school science textbook today and they are absolutely brimming with glossy ...
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The Artist Who Unlocked King Tutankhamun’s Tomb And Revealed A London Underground Of Wonders (1928)

The Artist Who Unlocked King Tutankhamun’s Tomb And Revealed A London Underground Of Wonders (1928)

In the 1920s artist Douglas MacPherson shone a light into the darkness. He unlocked King Tutankhamun's ...
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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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