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Leonard Nimoy and Magnavox: “The Brightest Ideas in the World Are Here to Play”

Leonard Nimoy and Magnavox: “The Brightest Ideas in the World Are Here to Play”

William Shatner is known as a pitchman extraordinaire for products including Promise Margarine, the Commodore ...
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Emilio Pucci Uniforms For Braniff International Airlines’ Hostesses, 1965-73

Emilio Pucci Uniforms For Braniff International Airlines’ Hostesses, 1965-73

Fashion designer Emilio Pucci (1914 - 1992) created outfits for the jet-set. From 1965 to 1973 Pucci dressed ...
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Hans Christian Andersen Diaries: Sex In Paris And Climbing Vesuvius As It Erupted

Hans Christian Andersen Diaries: Sex In Paris And Climbing Vesuvius As It Erupted

  "The lava looked like colossal, fallen stars. We rode again over the black lava ...
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The Story of British Coal In Photographs: 1900-1930

The Story of British Coal In Photographs: 1900-1930

“Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness ...
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Paint By Numbers: Artist Thomas Allen Lampoons Visual Color Systems

Paint By Numbers: Artist Thomas Allen Lampoons Visual Color Systems

“Color is your choice, but be sure it compliments the furnishings you already have. Select ...
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Point-Blank! To Jamie Reid: ‘We Created The Nowhere Buses’

Point-Blank! To Jamie Reid: ‘We Created The Nowhere Buses’

    In the week of the opening of Jamie Reid’s exhibition Peace Is Tough, ...
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Remembering GLOW Magazine: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

Remembering GLOW Magazine: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

  The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW), created by Sylvester Stallone's mom (seen above), hit the boob ...
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Pierre Laroche’s Breakfast Club Mystery, The Who At Charlton And The Death Of Alkasura’s John Lloyd

Pierre Laroche’s Breakfast Club Mystery, The Who At Charlton And The Death Of Alkasura’s John Lloyd

  The identities of the two individuals on the left are a mystery*; with Ossie ...
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Christmas in Dreamland: John Waters Presents Eye-Watering XXXMas Cards

Christmas in Dreamland: John Waters Presents Eye-Watering XXXMas Cards

  This Christmas we peel back the sticky envelope on John Waters’ Dreamland Christmas cards, featuring the ...
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Woman’s Day Magazine Scan: December 1985

Woman’s Day Magazine Scan: December 1985

  Sure, dad looks a little bit like a psychopath, and mom's sanity is clearly ...
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Mindsuckers: Brain-Controlling Parasites That Turn Creatures Into Zombies

Mindsuckers: Brain-Controlling Parasites That Turn Creatures Into Zombies

In Mindsuckers, Anand Varma take us close to the world of parasitic creatures. "No one wants ...
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Sci-Fi Scrooges: 5 Times Cult-TV Programs Adapted Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

Sci-Fi Scrooges: 5 Times Cult-TV Programs Adapted Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was originally published in 1843. Readers immediately took to ...
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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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