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When Nazi Germany Saluted England At Spurs’ White Hart Lane: 1935

When Nazi Germany Saluted England At Spurs’ White Hart Lane: 1935

  On 4 December 1935, Germany took on England at White Hart Lane in London. This ...
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Waiting In Line To See Star Wars: 1977-2000

Waiting In Line To See Star Wars: 1977-2000

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Will History blame me or the Bees? 5 Pop Culture Memories of the Killer Bee Invasion of the 1970s

Will History blame me or the Bees? 5 Pop Culture Memories of the Killer Bee Invasion of the 1970s

  In recent articles here at Flashbak, I have remembered the weird and wonderful pop ...
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Dystopia on Tape: Post-Apocalyptic VHS Cover Art

Dystopia on Tape: Post-Apocalyptic VHS Cover Art

The VHS era was big into  post-apocalyptic movies (ex. Mad Max, Escape from New York), ...
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Walkabout Cricket: The Australian Aborigini England Tour And Boomerang Circus Of 1868

Walkabout Cricket: The Australian Aborigini England Tour And Boomerang Circus Of 1868

On February 2 1867, the first Australian cricket team to tour England posed for a ...
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In 1968, The BFI Invited Jean-Luc Godard To The National Film Theatre: He Sent This Telegram

In 1968, The BFI Invited Jean-Luc Godard To The National Film Theatre: He Sent This Telegram

In 1968, the BFI invited Jean-Luc Godard to the National Film Theatre to give a ...
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Burlesque in America: From Heyday to Final Shabby Demise

Burlesque in America: From Heyday to Final Shabby Demise

  FROM WHOLESOME TO INDECENT A few hundred years ago, troupes of performers had the ...
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When The English Cheese Maiden Fed Footballers And Took Benny Hill’s Cream

When The English Cheese Maiden Fed Footballers And Took Benny Hill’s Cream

In 1962, Lancashire's Burnley FC and London club Tottenham Hotspur contested the English FA Cup ...
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Sixty Years of Lolita Book Covers

Sixty Years of Lolita Book Covers

  Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: ...
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The Good, the Bad and the Tacky: 20 Fashion Trends of the 1970s

The Good, the Bad and the Tacky: 20 Fashion Trends of the 1970s

Back in December ’13 we listed out 5 fashion offenses of the decade, but I ...
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Livin’ the Dream with Green Stamps: A 1975 Catalog

Livin’ the Dream with Green Stamps: A 1975 Catalog

Remember The Brady Bunch episode where the kids try to cash in their Green Stamps? ...
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The More You Know: 5 Science Fiction-Related PSAs (Public Service Announcements) of the 1970s   

The More You Know: 5 Science Fiction-Related PSAs (Public Service Announcements) of the 1970s  

If you grew up during the 1970s and 1980s you likely remember PSAs or public ...
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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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    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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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