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Getting WAY Too Excited About Computers: Open-Mouthed Wonderment in 80s Tech Adverts

Getting WAY Too Excited About Computers: Open-Mouthed Wonderment in 80s Tech Adverts

Look at these people.  Judging by the levels of shock-and-awe, you'd think this man just ...
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Sex, Slavery And A Father’s Rotting Corpse: The Secret of Diary William Byrd II, Gentlemen And Planter (1907 – 1912)

Sex, Slavery And A Father’s Rotting Corpse: The Secret of Diary William Byrd II, Gentlemen And Planter (1907 – 1912)

"September 3rd 1709 … I ate roast chicken for dinner. In the afternoon I beat Jenny for throwing water on the couch" ...
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Newfangled Diamond Portraits (1890s)

Newfangled Diamond Portraits (1890s)

"I have this idea that photo genres spread like fads," says John Van Noate. "You went ...
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Benjamin Franklin Forced Enlightenment On Isolated Prisoners Inside The World’s First Penitentiary

Benjamin Franklin Forced Enlightenment On Isolated Prisoners Inside The World’s First Penitentiary

  Thrown into solitude... [the prisoner] reflects. Placed alone, in view of his crime, he ...
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The Man Whose Mind Exploded: Drako Oho Zarhazar’s Was Salvador Dali’s Angel And Other Extraordinary Events

The Man Whose Mind Exploded: Drako Oho Zarhazar’s Was Salvador Dali’s Angel And Other Extraordinary Events

I can’t wait to see documentarist Toby Amies’ envoi to his extraordinary friend Drako Oho ...
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The Rolling Stones’ All Night Rave at Alexandra Palace – June 1964

The Rolling Stones’ All Night Rave at Alexandra Palace – June 1964

Organised by The Rolling Stones' fan club, the show coincided with the release date of the band's hit 'It’s All Over Now'. ...
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Audrey, Celia, and Olive’s Joyous Days At The Beach (1927-1928)

Audrey, Celia, and Olive’s Joyous Days At The Beach (1927-1928)

"Several years ago, I obtained a photographic album with pictures of an British family dating ...
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Found Photos: Mid-Century People Standing By Modern TVs (Volume 2)

Found Photos: Mid-Century People Standing By Modern TVs (Volume 2)

In this gallery of mid-Century people posing for the camera with their modern TV sets, ...
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Lady Day And Mister: Billy Holiday’s Canine Partners In Crime

Lady Day And Mister: Billy Holiday’s Canine Partners In Crime

Jazz singer Eleanora Fagan, aka Billie Holiday and Lady Day, (April 7, 1915–July 17, 1959) ...
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Live Long and Prosper: Mr. Spock’s Greatest Achievements in Star Trek’s Prime Universe

Live Long and Prosper: Mr. Spock’s Greatest Achievements in Star Trek’s Prime Universe

  This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of Gene Roddenberry's space opera, Star Trek (1966-1969). ...
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Sassy Women In 1970s New York Purgatory, By Meryl Meisler

Sassy Women In 1970s New York Purgatory, By Meryl Meisler

  "You can never go to heaven, the best you can do is purgatory” That ...
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Andy Warhol Eats A Burger King And Asks ‘Where is the beautiful McDonald’s?’

Andy Warhol Eats A Burger King And Asks ‘Where is the beautiful McDonald’s?’

"It couldn’t be more Warholesque. That’s of course why he agreed to do it" ...
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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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