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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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Stripping at London’s Raymond Revuebar in 1958: fantastic photos

Stripping at London’s Raymond Revuebar in 1958: fantastic photos

  The Raymond Revuebar in London's sleazy Soho was Britain's first-ever strip club. Paul Raymond (nee Geoffrey ...
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Victorian Women of Color: 32 Photos of Beauty In The Age Of Hatred

Victorian Women of Color: 32 Photos of Beauty In The Age Of Hatred

These photographs of African-Ameivcan women were taken in the Victorian Era, mainly from the years 1860 ...
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Bibliofails: Odd and Overly-Specific 20th Century Non-Fiction

Bibliofails: Odd and Overly-Specific 20th Century Non-Fiction

  No disrespect to works of nonfiction which happen to focus on a very specific ...
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Diana Rigg Poses For Jean Varon And The Avengers: Photos

Diana Rigg Poses For Jean Varon And The Avengers: Photos

  In October 1965, Diana Rigg made her first appearance in The Avengers, then in ...
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Prehistoric Tech: Hasbro’s Think-A-Tron, The Electric Question and Answer Machine (1960)

Prehistoric Tech: Hasbro’s Think-A-Tron, The Electric Question and Answer Machine (1960)

Straight from the Eisenhower Era comes this beloved toy of a generation: Hasbro’s Think-A-Tron, “The ...
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Vote Bill Boaks: Your Local Public Safety Democratic Monarchist White Resident

Vote Bill Boaks: Your Local Public Safety Democratic Monarchist White Resident

None of the Above: Floating Voter considers famous fringe candidates from elections past No 3: ...
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On This Day In Photos: March 7th In The 20th Century

On This Day In Photos: March 7th In The 20th Century

Photos we found of people, places and events on March 7th in the 20th Century: ...
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In 1960s London World Führer Colin Jordan And ‘Colored’ Immigrants Rocked British Politics

In 1960s London World Führer Colin Jordan And ‘Colored’ Immigrants Rocked British Politics

None of the Above: Floating Voter considers famous fringe candidates from elections past No 2: ...
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Videokassette Dynamite! 30 Insanely Awesome 1970s Swedish VHS Action Flick Covers

Videokassette Dynamite! 30 Insanely Awesome 1970s Swedish VHS Action Flick Covers

Just when you thought we couldn't find a retro niche obscure enough, we're diving in ...
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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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