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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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    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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