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The Naked Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, AKA Le Corbusier: A Life In Photos

The Naked Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, AKA Le Corbusier: A Life In Photos

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, aka Le Corbusier, was the most potent architect of the 20th century. The artist, polemicist and urban ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

The Rise and Fall of the Lyons’ Cornerhouses and their Nippy Waitresses

In 1924 the directors of J. Lyons and Co. decided to update their image and specifically their waitresses. They held a staff competition to choose a nickname for the newly styled Lyon’s teashops’ waitresses. The former name of ‘Gladys’ was now seen as very old fashioned. The name ‘Nippy’ was eventually chosen, probably for the connotation that the waitresses nipped speedily around. ...
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Robot Empire: Remembering Topper’s Ding-A-Ling Robots of the 1970s

Robot Empire: Remembering Topper’s Ding-A-Ling Robots of the 1970s

In the late 1960s, a toy company named Topper master-minded a toy robot takeover of ...
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Cardboard Universe: Remembering the Amsco Playsets of the 1970s

Cardboard Universe: Remembering the Amsco Playsets of the 1970s

  In the early-to-mid 1970s -- before Star Wars (1977) premiered -- Amsco (A Milton ...
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The Splendor of Domestic Servitude: 7 Mid-Century Sexist Adverts

The Splendor of Domestic Servitude: 7 Mid-Century Sexist Adverts

As a woman, your entire purpose on earth is to please your chain-smoking, Scotch guzzling ...
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You Have Been Summoned to Galactic Court: Ten Times Your Favorite Space Hero went on Trial

You Have Been Summoned to Galactic Court: Ten Times Your Favorite Space Hero went on Trial

  Even in space, the ultimate enemy is…the court system.  Throughout science fiction TV history, ...
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Scenes From Ladies Dressing Rooms: The Crinoline Craze In The 1850s and 1860s

Scenes From Ladies Dressing Rooms: The Crinoline Craze In The 1850s and 1860s

  Of all the man-made devices intended to retrain womanhood the crinoline is surely the most elaborate. The huge ...
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Album Cover Fashion Horrors

Album Cover Fashion Horrors

To catalog every fashion horror perpetrated on an album cover would literally fill up the internet - we ...
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5 Reasons Horror Movies Aren’t What They Used To Be

5 Reasons Horror Movies Aren’t What They Used To Be

Before we drill down as to why horror films aren’t what they once were in ...
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Devil Worship: Feverish Posters From When Sinister Stage Magicians Harnessed The Occult

Devil Worship: Feverish Posters From When Sinister Stage Magicians Harnessed The Occult

Do you believe in ghosts? Do you believe in the Devil, that He makes mischief ...
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The Lost Art of Cassette Design: 1980s

The Lost Art of Cassette Design: 1980s

Steve Vistaunet's photgraphs of cassette spine designs take us back to pressing 'play' and 'record' on to ...
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Far-Out Former Names of 15 Classic Bands

Far-Out Former Names of 15 Classic Bands

I don’t know about you, but I’m really glad Ozzy and the boys changed their ...
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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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