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It Can Happen Here: Four Times Authors and Artists Warned Us about Fascism in America

It Can Happen Here: Four Times Authors and Artists Warned Us about Fascism in America

  To define it simply, fascism is a brand of authoritarianism in which a dictator ...
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Dr Reed Bontecou’s Stunning Pictures Of Wounded Civil War Veterans

Dr Reed Bontecou’s Stunning Pictures Of Wounded Civil War Veterans

How do we see war veterans of war? In the US Civil War (1861-1865) Dr ...
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What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? Ads from 1958-1974

What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? Ads from 1958-1974

At it's height in 1972 Playboy magazine had a circulation of over 7 million copies ...
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Jack Kerouac’s 39 Rules for Writing Prose

Jack Kerouac’s 39 Rules for Writing Prose

  Don't fret. It took Jack Kerouac all of three weeks to write On the ...
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Joseph Faber’s Freakish Talking Head Haunts Uncanny Valley In 1846

Joseph Faber’s Freakish Talking Head Haunts Uncanny Valley In 1846

  In August 1846, Joseph Faber, a German-born scientist and mathematician, stood in London's Egyptian Hall. Punters ...
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Stacked: Outstanding Photos Of Post-War Berlin Housing Estates

Stacked: Outstanding Photos Of Post-War Berlin Housing Estates

  In Stacked, Copenhagen-based photographer Malte Brandenburg discovers a surprising lack of conformity amongst post-war housing estates ...
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21 Swedish Posters For 1930s Hollywood Movies

21 Swedish Posters For 1930s Hollywood Movies

These Swedish posters of Hollywood films feature work by designers Eric Rohman, Gösta Åberg and ...
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Sybille II: Watch An Artist’s Tribute To Zits Erupting Like Creatures In A Jacques Cousteau Film

Sybille II: Watch An Artist’s Tribute To Zits Erupting Like Creatures In A Jacques Cousteau Film

  In 1999, Wim Delvoye released the experimental art film Sybille II, in which he captured shots ...
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Charles Bukowski’s Letter To The Man Who Helped Him Escape Slavery To Become A Full-Time Writer

Charles Bukowski’s Letter To The Man Who Helped Him Escape Slavery To Become A Full-Time Writer

In 1969, at age 49, Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin made him offer: quite your job and I'll pay you $100 a month for life to write. ...
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20 Superb Mid-Century Advertising Trade Card Postcards

20 Superb Mid-Century Advertising Trade Card Postcards

  Via William Bird's collection
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The Pauli Effect: How Einstein’s Brilliant Successor Accidentally Destroyed Everything

The Pauli Effect: How Einstein’s Brilliant Successor Accidentally Destroyed Everything

"Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958), one of the founders of ...
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The ‘Schoolkids’ Oz, Soho, and the Downfall of the ‘Dirty Squad’

The ‘Schoolkids’ Oz, Soho, and the Downfall of the ‘Dirty Squad’

  For over 200 years Soho has had a racy reputation. Prostitution, for instance, was relatively ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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