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We Don’t Need Other Worlds; We Need A Mirror: Six Sci-Fi Movies that Took the Ultimate Trip – Home

We Don’t Need Other Worlds; We Need A Mirror: Six Sci-Fi Movies that Took the Ultimate Trip – Home

In Stanislew Lem’s 1961 novel, Solaris, one character observes that humans have no need of ...
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Letter from a Slave, 1857

Letter from a Slave, 1857

In August 1857, a young slave Vilet Lester wrote a letter to her former mistress, Patsey ...
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Stardust and David Essex Changed My Life: The Rise and Fall of Jim Maclean

Stardust and David Essex Changed My Life: The Rise and Fall of Jim Maclean

Stardust: The rise and fall of Jim Maclean.     "There was an identity crisis ...
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On This Day In Photos: April 7th In The 20th Century

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

Photos we found of people, places and events on June 7th in the 20th Century:
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Wonderful retro photos of footballers in the bath

Wonderful retro photos of footballers in the bath

This is a gallery of footballers in the bath. Very often it's a communal bath. ...
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Days of the Shaggin’ Wagon: A Look at 1970s Custom Vans

Days of the Shaggin’ Wagon: A Look at 1970s Custom Vans

The streets of the 1970s were littered with a variety of vehicles: badass muscle cars, massive ...
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Spines of Gold: Remembering the Sci-Fi Little Golden Books of the Seventies

Spines of Gold: Remembering the Sci-Fi Little Golden Books of the Seventies

  Today, I want to remember another glorious bit of my 1970s childhood: The Little ...
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When Living Rooms Went Brown: “Earth Toning” of American Homes in the 1970s

When Living Rooms Went Brown: “Earth Toning” of American Homes in the 1970s

The 1970s were a bit bipolar when it came to their interior decorating.  On the ...
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Hampstead Heath Easter Fair 1956 – In Colour

Hampstead Heath Easter Fair 1956 – In Colour

  London's ancient Hampstead Heath (founded c. 800) has long staged an annual Easter Fare. ...
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Biblioclasts: They Who Burn Books

Biblioclasts: They Who Burn Books

    Who burns books? In 1880 the printer and bibliographer William Blades published The ...
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The Perversion of The Easter Bunny: 1907 To Today

The Perversion of The Easter Bunny: 1907 To Today

“Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” "Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see ...
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Tales of Insanity, Heartbreak and Cringe: 25 Supergirl Covers of the 1970s

Tales of Insanity, Heartbreak and Cringe: 25 Supergirl Covers of the 1970s

What in the ever-lovin' hell is going on?  It appears Supergirl is being attacked by ...
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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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