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Didn’t It Rain? On 7 May 1964 Rosetta Tharpe’s Blues And Gospel Train Thundered Into Manchester

Didn’t It Rain? On 7 May 1964 Rosetta Tharpe’s Blues And Gospel Train Thundered Into Manchester

  In 1964, Sister Rosetta Tharpe delivered a sensational live performance of Didn't It Rain? in Manchester, ...
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Meat Is Beautiful: Art Of The Butcher’s Shop Window 1924 – 1970

Meat Is Beautiful: Art Of The Butcher’s Shop Window 1924 – 1970

“Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we ...
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The Limbourg Brothers Beautiful Illustrations for ‘Très Riches Heures du Berry’ 1416

The Limbourg Brothers Beautiful Illustrations for ‘Très Riches Heures du Berry’ 1416

  A Book of Hours is a Christian devotional book popular in the Middle Ages--from ...
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Barney Bubbles’ Potent Legacy Of Inspiration

Barney Bubbles’ Potent Legacy Of Inspiration

  So potent is the creative legacy of the graphic design master Barney Bubbles (born ...
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Charles Schulz Draws H.P. Lovecraft

Charles Schulz Draws H.P. Lovecraft

Julien Bazinet imagines what it would look like if Charles Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February ...
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Mind-Blowing Postcards of Mid-Century Bars With Merry-Go-Round Themes

Mind-Blowing Postcards of Mid-Century Bars With Merry-Go-Round Themes

Would madam and sir care to relax in the bar done up to resemble a ...
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Typists in the New Zealand Liaison Office in Whitehall 1942

Typists in the New Zealand Liaison Office in Whitehall 1942

Three pictures of three women typists in the New Zealand Liaison office in the War ...
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The Modernist 1969 Palm Springs Dream Home Where Time Stood Still

The Modernist 1969 Palm Springs Dream Home Where Time Stood Still

In 1969, construction finished on 2055 S Joshua Tree Place, Palm Springs, CA 92264. The ...
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Membership Papers for Scotland’s Secret Grand Lodge of Masons (1918)

Membership Papers for Scotland’s Secret Grand Lodge of Masons (1918)

  In 1917, my grandfather James McKay applied to join the Grand Lodge of the ...
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Johnny Cash: I Was Almost Killed By A Rare Tennessee Ostrich In 1981

Johnny Cash: I Was Almost Killed By A Rare Tennessee Ostrich In 1981

  On what would have been his birthday, we hark back to 1981, when Johnny ...
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George Harrison: The India Selfies (1966)

George Harrison: The India Selfies (1966)

In September 1966 George Harrison and his wife Pattie flew out of London and landed in India. George had booked ...
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Enact the Story: Gerry Anderson’s Starcruiser 1 (1979)

Enact the Story: Gerry Anderson’s Starcruiser 1 (1979)

  One of the greatest spaceship model kits of all-time -- or at least my ...
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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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