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The Inventors Behind 3 Strange Fads of the 1970s

The Inventors Behind 3 Strange Fads of the 1970s

1. Gary Dahl - The Pet Rock Perhaps no fad epitomizes the decade quite like ...
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Better, Smarter, Faster: Remembering Kenner’s Bionic Toys of the Disco Decade

Better, Smarter, Faster: Remembering Kenner’s Bionic Toys of the Disco Decade

Although fans of my generation may forever associate Kenner with its incredible line of Star ...
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In The 1950s Nazi Rocketeer Wernher von Braun Wanted To Build NASA A Gas Chamber In Space

In The 1950s Nazi Rocketeer Wernher von Braun Wanted To Build NASA A Gas Chamber In Space

  Wernher von Braun was the Nazi rocketeer who led NASA’s space program. A member of the SS, ...
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Transgender Women On The Streets Of Paris In The 1950s And 1960s

Transgender Women On The Streets Of Paris In The 1950s And 1960s

"These are images of people whose lives I shared and whom I think I understood" - Christer Strömholm ...
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Sex Sells in Tokyo: Saucy Japanese Adverts from the 1970s-80s

Sex Sells in Tokyo: Saucy Japanese Adverts from the 1970s-80s

It's time for another round of advertisements which will leave you both scratching your head ...
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Vinyl Clones: Album Cover Look-Alikes (Part 3)

Vinyl Clones: Album Cover Look-Alikes (Part 3)

It's amazing how similar certain album covers are to each other; some intentionally, some by ...
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Reefer Madness: Mid-Century Anti-Marijuana Propaganda In Movies And Books

Reefer Madness: Mid-Century Anti-Marijuana Propaganda In Movies And Books

1951: Film depicting the downfall of a high school reefer smoker shown during anti-drug crusade. ...
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Totally Rad Arcade Game Adverts of the 1980s

Totally Rad Arcade Game Adverts of the 1980s

1. Wizard of Wor (1981) Like most any arcade game of the 1980s, the game ...
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Life In 19th century Japan: Color Photographs Of Life With The Samurai And Geisha

Life In 19th century Japan: Color Photographs Of Life With The Samurai And Geisha

  Between 1863 and 1877, Italian-born Felice Beato (1825–1908) recorded life in Yokohama, Japan. He ...
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In The Beginning: The Bible’s Adam and Eve Story As Re-Told By Sci-Fi TV

In The Beginning: The Bible’s Adam and Eve Story As Re-Told By Sci-Fi TV

  The Biblical story of Adam and Eve depicts the first human couple in history. ...
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What Are They Looking At? Vintage Sweater Models Staring At God-Knows-What

What Are They Looking At? Vintage Sweater Models Staring At God-Knows-What

Yes, I know - they're staring at nothing.  The photographer says, "Now, look over here" ...
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Flying Monkey Wardrobe Test From ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (1939)

Flying Monkey Wardrobe Test From ‘The Wizard of Oz’ (1939)

Flying Monkey wardrobe test from "The Wizard of Oz" (1939):       Spotter: Reddit
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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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