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T. S. Elliot Writes To Virginia Woolf (1924)

T. S. Elliot Writes To Virginia Woolf (1924)

  On July 8 1923, Virginia Woolf completed her work hand typesetting the first English edition of ...
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In Tune With Fun: A 1950s Accordion Comic Book

In Tune With Fun: A 1950s Accordion Comic Book

In the 1950s, a young man's dreams of popularity, parental approval and sex appeal could ...
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20 Mid-Century Christian Ventriloquism Albums

20 Mid-Century Christian Ventriloquism Albums

In the 1950s and 1960s Christian teachers turned to ventriloquism to teach kids about Jesus. They ...
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Hawkwind and Barney Bubbles Influence Le Gun’s Space Is Deep

Hawkwind and Barney Bubbles Influence Le Gun’s Space Is Deep

  Space Is Deep, was a 2013 exhibition from art collective Le Gun. The show, at ...
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Obiticide: People Magazine Killed ‘The Late’ Abe Vigoda In 1982 – 34 Years Before He Died

Obiticide: People Magazine Killed ‘The Late’ Abe Vigoda In 1982 – 34 Years Before He Died

  In 1982, People magazine killed Abe Vigoda with two words. Vigoda, a wonderful actor famous ...
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Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann. ...
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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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    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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