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When Kermit met Yoda: The Muppets on set of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

When Kermit met Yoda: The Muppets on set of ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

  August 1979: Irvin Kershner is directing The Empire Strikes Back, aka Star Wars Episode ...
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts The World In 2100: Future Visions From 1964 and 2001

Arthur C. Clarke Predicts The World In 2100: Future Visions From 1964 and 2001

    In 2001 (obviously, he did write 2001: A Space Odyssey), Arthur C. Clarke shared ...
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The Covers Don’t Lie: A brief history of the 1990s UK music scene as told through Select magazine

The Covers Don’t Lie: A brief history of the 1990s UK music scene as told through Select magazine

The way we listened: Sometimes, looking back on all the music that was supposedly hip ...
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Naughty Co-Eds: A Look at Campusploitation Films

Naughty Co-Eds: A Look at Campusploitation Films

  The 1970s brought humanity into the gutter with a buffet of exploitation genre choices: ...
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Photographic portraits of Victorian women

Photographic portraits of Victorian women

Here then are the very real governesses, Miss Havershams, lovers, mothers and heroines of Victorian ...
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Ten Commandments For Flappers: 1922

Ten Commandments For Flappers: 1922

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The Tibetan Book of Proportions: An 18th Century Guide To Drawing Buddha

The Tibetan Book of Proportions: An 18th Century Guide To Drawing Buddha

Cartoonists have a guide on how to draw the Buddha. No such guide exists for ...
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¡Qué Extraño! 20 Odd and Maravilloso Mexican Comic Books

¡Qué Extraño! 20 Odd and Maravilloso Mexican Comic Books

  Bullies could beat up the fat American kids reading Batman and Superman.  But, you ...
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Rib and Bones: When Soviet X-rays became bootleg records of forbidden Western music

Rib and Bones: When Soviet X-rays became bootleg records of forbidden Western music

A quick trim with manicure scissors; a hole made (a burning ciggie was fine) and the ‘Bones’ or ‘Ribs’ were good to play. ...
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Doctor O’Followell’s X-rays of women wearing corsets: 1908

Doctor O’Followell’s X-rays of women wearing corsets: 1908

In 1908, Doctor O’Followell’s Le Corset (The Corset) featured X-rays of corsets for women. Well, so he ...
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Miniskirts & Monopoly: 1969 Parker Brothers Fashions

Miniskirts & Monopoly: 1969 Parker Brothers Fashions

1969 was the year of the Moon Landing and Woodstock, but it was also the ...
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They Stick Like Magic! A Gallery of Colorform Adventure Sets (1966 – 1980)

They Stick Like Magic! A Gallery of Colorform Adventure Sets (1966 – 1980)

Last week here on Flashbak, I remembered “Fotonovels” or “Photostories,” and tagged those publications as ...
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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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