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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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    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 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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    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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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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