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5 Masterplans of London After The Great Fire Of 1666

5 Masterplans of London After The Great Fire Of 1666

Sir Christopher Wren Said, 'I am going to dine with some men. If anyone calls ...
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Istanbul Infinity: Aydin Büyüktas Recreates Turkish Cityscapes In A New Dimension

Istanbul Infinity: Aydin Büyüktas Recreates Turkish Cityscapes In A New Dimension

Turkish photographer Aydın Büyüktaş shares with us his incredible pictures of Istanbul, twisted into an infinite city. Aydin ...
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Writing For Peanuts: How Charles Schulz and Snoopy Taught Us To Write

Writing For Peanuts: How Charles Schulz and Snoopy Taught Us To Write

In Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life (2002), thirty famous writers and entertainers produce 500-word essays alongside a favourite strip of quick-change-artist Snoopy at the typewriter.  ...
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The Robot with a Personality: Remembering Mego’s 2-XL

The Robot with a Personality: Remembering Mego’s 2-XL

  In 1978, Mego introduced a small, toy robot that could play 8-track tapes: the ...
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Watch Kate Bush Makes Her TV Debut In 1978

Watch Kate Bush Makes Her TV Debut In 1978

“They thought Kate was the stripper, which didn’t go down very well” ...
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The Greatest Soccer Programme Ever: Coventry City’s 1971 Ode To Sex And High Fashion

The Greatest Soccer Programme Ever: Coventry City’s 1971 Ode To Sex And High Fashion

When English soccer team Coventry City took on Burnley in the League Cup on September 7th 1971, ...
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European Masquerades: Pagan Costumes Of The Light Continent’s Wilder Men

European Masquerades: Pagan Costumes Of The Light Continent’s Wilder Men

  "Plugged in, neurotically Wi-Fied and 3Ged as we are, we yearn to re-establish contact ...
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Sunshine Days? The Five Most Underrated Episodes of The X-Files (1993-2002) Final Two Seasons

Sunshine Days? The Five Most Underrated Episodes of The X-Files (1993-2002) Final Two Seasons

Chris Carter’s The X-Files (1993-2002) returns to television this week with a six hour limited ...
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Photos Of Daytona Beach Bike Week 1970s and 1980s

Photos Of Daytona Beach Bike Week 1970s and 1980s

In the 1970s and 1980s, Tom Reavis went to Daytona Beach and using an old 35 ...
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The Forefathers Of Mad Men Star In This Fantastic 1950 Article On Advertising In New York City

The Forefathers Of Mad Men Star In This Fantastic 1950 Article On Advertising In New York City

  "Hot sex. They can’t do what we do and they hate us for it.” ...
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Found Photos: A Mid-Century Pyjama Party

Found Photos: A Mid-Century Pyjama Party

Nostalgia feels like a strain on the heart, a tug backwards or a pull to a ...
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Highlights From A 1661 Anatomical Pop-Up Book

Highlights From A 1661 Anatomical Pop-Up Book

Highlights from the 1661 pop-up book  - deep breath - Kleiner welt spiegel, das ist, abbildung ...
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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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