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Classic Television’s Greatest Douchebags (1950s-1980s)

Classic Television’s Greatest Douchebags (1950s-1980s)

An essential element of a good TV show is having a character who audiences love ...
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30 Terrifying Images Of Children In Adverts And Books From the Mid 20th Century

30 Terrifying Images Of Children In Adverts And Books From the Mid 20th Century

Children are so delightful. Aren't they? Well, not always, no. Sometimes there is nothing creepier ...
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London Tank Protests: Top Gear Terror And Other Sights To Gladden The Heart

London Tank Protests: Top Gear Terror And Other Sights To Gladden The Heart

A sight to Gladden the heart When angry Top Gear fans besieged the BBC and ...
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Cigarette Pants & Condom Tees: When Fashion and Product Brands Collide

Cigarette Pants & Condom Tees: When Fashion and Product Brands Collide

Can your brain even comprehend how a pair of "hip-huggin', flare-bottomed, all-season fun-wear for guys ...
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Fashion On The Ration: Street Style In The 1940s

Fashion On The Ration: Street Style In The 1940s

Fashion on The Ration explores how World War 2 affected fashion and the the way people ...
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Soldiers And Nurses Lost in the Maze at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England, 1940

Soldiers And Nurses Lost in the Maze at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England, 1940

Wonderful photo: Soldiers and nurses lost in the maze at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England, 1940. ...
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Women’s Lib or Male Sex Fantasy? The 11 Maddest Matriarchies of Sci-Fi TV

Women’s Lib or Male Sex Fantasy? The 11 Maddest Matriarchies of Sci-Fi TV

Imagine a bizarre and terrifying planet in which women rule, and men are second-class citizens, ...
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20 Photos of the Kings Road on a Hot August Day in 1976.

20 Photos of the Kings Road on a Hot August Day in 1976.

Accompanied by Klaus Hiltscher - the Rock n' Roll accountant or Affendaddy as he is ...
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Kodaks Are For Men: Vintage “Sex Sells” Camera Advertising

Kodaks Are For Men: Vintage “Sex Sells” Camera Advertising

  Somewhere back in the Mesozoic Era, mankind used something called "film" in their cameras. ...
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Forty Remarkable Native American Portraits by Frank A. Rinehart from 1899.

Forty Remarkable Native American Portraits by Frank A. Rinehart from 1899.

Frank Albert Rinehart was born in Lodi, Illinois in 1861. At some point in the ...
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Top Ten Unlikely and Surprising Eugenicists

Top Ten Unlikely and Surprising Eugenicists

Before the Second World War, eugenics or as the Oxford Dictionary puts it: 'the science ...
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Before Rowan Atkinson: The Original Blackadder

Before Rowan Atkinson: The Original Blackadder

  Long before Rowan Atkinson graced our screens as the conniving Prince Edmund Plantagenet, better ...
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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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