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The Farm Hall Transcripts: German Nuclear Scientists Weep For Hiroshima And Regret Not Annihilating London (1945)

The Farm Hall Transcripts: German Nuclear Scientists Weep For Hiroshima And Regret Not Annihilating London (1945)

Werner Heisenberg and his team were tasked with building a nuclear weapon for Nazi Germany. In ...
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The Joy Of People Knitting In The 20th Century

The Joy Of People Knitting In The 20th Century

Do you knit? Maria Popova has a word to the wise, noting that “the flower doesn’t go ...
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You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby: Virginia Slims Advertising Year By Year

You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby: Virginia Slims Advertising Year By Year

It started in 1968 - Phillip Morris launches the very first cigarette brand marketed specifically ...
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Home ’78: Interior Décor from the Disco Era

Home ’78: Interior Décor from the Disco Era

Disco era décor didn't have to be tacky.  The exaggerated picture provided by movies has tricked ...
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Ketubah Art: Jewish Marriage Contracts From The 17th and 18th Centuries

Ketubah Art: Jewish Marriage Contracts From The 17th and 18th Centuries

The ketubah (plural ketubot) is a public marriage contract signed by two witnesses and then read ...
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Photographs of Anti-Fascist French Youth Camps, By Pierre Jamet  (1930s)

Photographs of Anti-Fascist French Youth Camps, By Pierre Jamet (1930s)

Pierre Jamet (May 24, 1910, Saint-Quentin, France - 17 August,2000, Belle Île, France) was a singer ...
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Birds Of Britain: The Most Fanciable Women In Swinging London

Birds Of Britain: The Most Fanciable Women In Swinging London

In the spring of 1966, British photographer John d Green created Birds of Britain, a ...
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Don’t Look Up! Cinema’s Long Pervy Tradition of Ladies on Ladders

Don’t Look Up! Cinema’s Long Pervy Tradition of Ladies on Ladders

  The history of cinema is full of scenes featuring girls climbing up ladders and ...
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Sharpies Do The Melbourne Shuffle (1975)

Sharpies Do The Melbourne Shuffle (1975)

Australia’s Daddy Cool scored a big home hit in 1971 with sub-Stones strut Eagle Rock, ...
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Life Aboard The Alden Fishing Boat Out of Gloucester, Massachusetts (June 1943)

Life Aboard The Alden Fishing Boat Out of Gloucester, Massachusetts (June 1943)

In June 1943 Antonio Milietello, the owner and oldest fisherman aboard the fishing vessel Alden, working ...
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HRROOGA! And Other Vintage Comic Book Monster Sounds

HRROOGA! And Other Vintage Comic Book Monster Sounds

There was no shortage of horror themed comic books back in the 1950s-60s... and that ...
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The Addams Family – A Coloring Book (1965)

The Addams Family – A Coloring Book (1965)

In 1965, Ohio's Saalfield Publishing Company (1900-1977) The Addams Family - A Coloring Book. Based on the ...
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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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