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Meals in a Mold: The Mid-Century’s Love Affair with Gelatin 

Meals in a Mold: The Mid-Century’s Love Affair with Gelatin 

  The end of World War II heralded a time of peace for much of ...
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In British Politics Football Is A Game of Own-Goals

In British Politics Football Is A Game of Own-Goals

Political football is a game of own-goals     David Cameron is the latest (but ...
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Vintage Babes and Their 1950s Phallic Rockets

Vintage Babes and Their 1950s Phallic Rockets

When it comes to phallic imagery, it doesn't get much more blatant than the image ...
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Photos Of Censor Reverend Vernon Mitchell’s 1960 Tour Of Soho Strip Clubs

Photos Of Censor Reverend Vernon Mitchell’s 1960 Tour Of Soho Strip Clubs

London's Soho is synonymous with the business ends of sex. It's seedy and seductive, if ...
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America the Super-Sized: 5 Things That Have Gotten Huge Since the 1970s

America the Super-Sized: 5 Things That Have Gotten Huge Since the 1970s

We've all heard that portion size has gotten out of control – your average 1970s ...
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Test driving Buckminster Fuller’s three-wheeled Dymaxion car was fatal

Test driving Buckminster Fuller’s three-wheeled Dymaxion car was fatal

  In the 1930s, the prolific designer and planner Buckminster Fuller created the three-wheeled Dymaxion car. The vehicle ...
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Campers of Shag (Part 2): Another Look Inside Groovy RV’s of the 1970s

Campers of Shag (Part 2): Another Look Inside Groovy RV’s of the 1970s

We recently took a step inside the recreational vehicles of the 1970s, and those groovy ...
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The Simpsons’ Top Five Movie Parodies of the 21st Century

The Simpsons’ Top Five Movie Parodies of the 21st Century

If you want to, you can read all the conventional wisdom that is available all ...
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The Gorbals Vampire Ate Children And Created A Moral Panic – Glasgow, 1954

The Gorbals Vampire Ate Children And Created A Moral Panic – Glasgow, 1954

"It all started in the playground - the word was there was a vampire and everyone was going to head out there after school..." ...
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Lost Angels: Mugshots of anonymous women, LA 1930s-1940

Lost Angels: Mugshots of anonymous women, LA 1930s-1940

  "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism," wrote Raymond Chandler in The ...
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Fantastic Files: The Forgotten Genre Magazines of the Seventies and Eighties

Fantastic Files: The Forgotten Genre Magazines of the Seventies and Eighties

  The 1970s and 1980s – the pre-Internet Age -- witnessed the rise of so ...
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25 Lambert & Butler “Hints and Tips for Motorists” Cigarette Cards from 1932

25 Lambert & Butler “Hints and Tips for Motorists” Cigarette Cards from 1932

In 1834 Charles Lambert, the son of a snuff miller from Surrey, set up a ...
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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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