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5 Reasons We Should All Love 1970s Fashions

5 Reasons We Should All Love 1970s Fashions

1970s fashions have developed a bad reputation; an object of mockery and snarky remarks. It ...
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A Short Vision: The 1950s Nuclear Armageddon Cartoon That Terrified Everyone Watching The Ed Sullivan Show

A Short Vision: The 1950s Nuclear Armageddon Cartoon That Terrified Everyone Watching The Ed Sullivan Show

  In the early 1950s, trained painters Peter Foldes and his wife Joan began work ...
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Captive Audiences: 1981 Television Commercials

Captive Audiences: 1981 Television Commercials

With TiVo, DVR, Instant Streaming, etc. who watches commercials anymore?  Once upon a time, suffering ...
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19 Glorious Pages of Womenswear from the Kays Catalogue of 1983

19 Glorious Pages of Womenswear from the Kays Catalogue of 1983

1983: The era of off-the-shoulder sweatshirts and leotards with matching tights (the brighter and shinier ...
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The Great Toy Robots, Circa 1978 – 1988

The Great Toy Robots, Circa 1978 – 1988

After Star Wars premiered in 1977, the world fell in love with droids R2-D2 and ...
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When Playgrounds Were Deadly

When Playgrounds Were Deadly

Remember when playgrounds were fun? Sure, there was a pretty good chance you'd be scalded ...
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Synthetic Street USA: America’s Fake Rooftops And Towns of World War II

Synthetic Street USA: America’s Fake Rooftops And Towns of World War II

Synthetic Street USA wasn't a real street. No-one lived in the houses on it. It ...
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Spirit Photography In 1920s England: When William Hope Conned Arthur Conan Doyle

Spirit Photography In 1920s England: When William Hope Conned Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you believe in ghosts? William Hope (1863 – 8 March 1933) did. Maybe. More ...
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Rene Lalique’s Glass Mascots: 1920s Car Ornaments For Your Hood

Rene Lalique’s Glass Mascots: 1920s Car Ornaments For Your Hood

  What you need for your car is a mascot. And no mascot is more ...
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Don’t Tamper in God’s Domain: Jurassic Park and the ‘Life Finds a Way’ Horror Movies of the 1990s

Don’t Tamper in God’s Domain: Jurassic Park and the ‘Life Finds a Way’ Horror Movies of the 1990s

Jurassic World (2015) -- the third sequel to Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993) -- opens ...
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Stay Calm!  It’s Just Nuclear Annihilation (A 1950 A-Bomb Instructional Pamphlet)

Stay Calm! It’s Just Nuclear Annihilation (A 1950 A-Bomb Instructional Pamphlet)

Midcentury Americans lived in perpetual fear of nuclear annihilation from the Commies.  Classrooms had regular ...
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30 1970s Men’s Fashion Adverts That Cannot Be Unseen

30 1970s Men’s Fashion Adverts That Cannot Be Unseen

Men's fashion is the gift that keeps on giving. Until armour becomes ubiquitous, men will ...
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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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    The 125 Greatest Songs With A Woman’s Name In The Title

    The 125 Greatest Songs With A Woman’s Name In The Title

    Naming a song after a woman has, over the years, become the biggest music cliché ever; however, there’s been a ton of great ones, and is thereby prime fodder for music lists. So, here's the rules: (1) The song has to have a female's name in the title, but not ...
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