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Lost in Translation: Japanese Advertising in the 1960s-80s

Lost in Translation: Japanese Advertising in the 1960s-80s

Nothing makes me want to buy chocolate more than a man being attacked by creepy ...
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Wonderful Women With Wicked Tattoos: 1900-2000

Wonderful Women With Wicked Tattoos: 1900-2000

  Women with tattoos certainly isn't new. We've pulled together these pictures of inked women ...
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Olive Oatman Was The 1850s Girl With A Tattoo On Her Face

Olive Oatman Was The 1850s Girl With A Tattoo On Her Face

  On February 18, 1851, Olive Oatman, 13, and her sister Mary Ann, 7, were kidapped ...
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Chicago ’73 – Forty Incredible Photographs by John H. White

Chicago ’73 – Forty Incredible Photographs by John H. White

In White’s own words these amazing photographs catch the “spirit, love, zeal, pride and hopes” of the African-American community of Chicago. ...
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Kid Catastrophes: The Recycled Space Toys of the 1970s and 1980s

Kid Catastrophes: The Recycled Space Toys of the 1970s and 1980s

There is nothing worse for a kid than getting a new toy only to find ...
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Enchanted Elsewhere: Selling Sex and Hedonism in Retro Travel Advertising

Enchanted Elsewhere: Selling Sex and Hedonism in Retro Travel Advertising

 "I don't know what time it is or even what day it is.  I guess ...
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Mano a Mano: Six Times Cult-TV went to the Arena

Mano a Mano: Six Times Cult-TV went to the Arena

Fredric Brown’s short story "Arena" was first published in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine in 1944.  It concerned a ...
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Listen To These Albums Of 1970s Sex Tape Music

Listen To These Albums Of 1970s Sex Tape Music

    What was that song, you know the tune you hard plying on that ...
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The 1976 TV Watch By Driva Geneve of Switzerland

The 1976 TV Watch By Driva Geneve of Switzerland

Before the iWatch and wearable tchnology, a watch made by Driva Geneve of Switzerland incorporated ...
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How Superman and Stetson Kennedy Took Down The Klu Klux Klan In 1940s Florida

How Superman and Stetson Kennedy Took Down The Klu Klux Klan In 1940s Florida

In February 1947, Stetson Kennedy (October 5, 1916 – August 27, 2011), author of the ...
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A history of Manchester United banners

A history of Manchester United banners

Banner from heaven: a look back at Manchester United’s flagging fortunes   Manchester United’s FA ...
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Flashbak Video 1985: Willie And Lester The Dummy Make Things Awkward

Flashbak Video 1985: Willie And Lester The Dummy Make Things Awkward

  No disrespect to Willie Tyler and his wooden pal, Lester - they were a ...
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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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