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Good Vibrations: Remembering Dynamite Magazine and its Sci-Fi Covers of the 1970s

Good Vibrations: Remembering Dynamite Magazine and its Sci-Fi Covers of the 1970s

Dynamite Magazine (1974 – 1992) from Scholastic is another great reminder of childhood in the ...
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When Peter Hicks Electrocuted Traffic Wardens in London

When Peter Hicks Electrocuted Traffic Wardens in London

  On February 23 1963 Peter Hicks, a 40-year-old farmer and verteran of Bomber Command, ...
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“If Husbands Only Knew”: Mid-Century Book Adverts of Sexual Anxiety, True Love and Smut

“If Husbands Only Knew”: Mid-Century Book Adverts of Sexual Anxiety, True Love and Smut

  If you have the chance to pore through some vintage pulp magazines, you'll find ...
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Tsar Nicholas II’s Photographs of Daughter Anastasia Romanov Wearing Joke False Teeth

Tsar Nicholas II’s Photographs of Daughter Anastasia Romanov Wearing Joke False Teeth

In 1915, Russia's Tsar Nicholas II (18 May 1868 – 17 July 1918) took photographs ...
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Fantastic Etiquette Screen Cards for Unruly Cinema Goers In 1912

Fantastic Etiquette Screen Cards for Unruly Cinema Goers In 1912

You think going to the cinema now is hard work, dealing with the smart phone ...
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Snow Bound: A Survey of Ice Planets at the Movies and on TV

Snow Bound: A Survey of Ice Planets at the Movies and on TV

  Much of North America, particularly in the northeast, is currently digging out from one ...
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A Look at 5 Saturday Morning Shows of the 1960s and 70s

A Look at 5 Saturday Morning Shows of the 1960s and 70s

Back before there were 24 hour kids networks, children cherished Saturday mornings as that brief ...
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Culture of Fear: Six Times that Fear was a Deadly Weapon on Sci-Fi TV

Culture of Fear: Six Times that Fear was a Deadly Weapon on Sci-Fi TV

According to an online article in Wired Magazine published on August 24, 2012, Darpa -- ...
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Ice-breaking Acquaintance Cards From The 1870s and 1880s

Ice-breaking Acquaintance Cards From The 1870s and 1880s

Long before tweets and pokes, the way to instant message a dame and break the ...
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Like Punk Never Happened – Kays Catalogue Menswear from 1977

Like Punk Never Happened – Kays Catalogue Menswear from 1977

  Kay and Co Ltd was actually originally founded in Worcester in 1886 when William ...
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Teens Behaving Awkwardly: A Look at the 1970s High School Dance

Teens Behaving Awkwardly: A Look at the 1970s High School Dance

Ah, yes.  The High School Dance.  A source of much anxiety, subtle humiliation, and maybe ...
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Sydney Dernley’s Gallows Humour: At Home With Britain’s Last Surviving Executioner

Sydney Dernley’s Gallows Humour: At Home With Britain’s Last Surviving Executioner

  Nobody finds it odd that footballers and rock stars line their walls with framed ...
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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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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