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Lynching USA: photos and tales of when blacks were always the usual suspects

Lynching USA: photos and tales of when blacks were always the usual suspects

Even after the abolition of slavery in 1865, America's blacks were trapped. Nothing was equal. Whites ...
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The Babes of St. Nick: Santa’s Helpers of Christmas Past

The Babes of St. Nick: Santa’s Helpers of Christmas Past

Take a stroll through photographs and ephemera from Christmases of the 1960s-1970s and you'll often find ...
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Jingle Fails: Awful Christmas Albums (Part 2)

Jingle Fails: Awful Christmas Albums (Part 2)

Last year we brought you 12 Terrifically Awful Christmas Album Covers; well, enjoy another round ...
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The importance of keeping a notebook or Thomas Hardy’s four word novel

The importance of keeping a notebook or Thomas Hardy’s four word novel

Writers keep notebooks as inspiration can come at the most inopportune of moments. Malcolm Lowry ...
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What Retro Sci-Fi Universe Would You Live In?

What Retro Sci-Fi Universe Would You Live In?

Everyone's contemplated the eternal questions – where would you rather live, the Star Trek universe or ...
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Christmas on TV: A Look at Holiday Episodes and Specials

Christmas on TV: A Look at Holiday Episodes and Specials

By no means is this list comprehensive - there's been so many Christmas specials and ...
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Mad, Sexist and Above All Brilliant Vintage Christmas Ads (Part 2)

Mad, Sexist and Above All Brilliant Vintage Christmas Ads (Part 2)

Here's another supply of advertising from Christmases past.  Don't forget to check out last season's ...
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Your Show or Mine? The most Unforgettable Live-Action Superhero Crossovers in Cult-TV History

Your Show or Mine? The most Unforgettable Live-Action Superhero Crossovers in Cult-TV History

  A “crossover” is an incidence in which a character from one TV series appears ...
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Happiness is a Warm Gun: 1965 Boy’s Life Adverts

Happiness is a Warm Gun: 1965 Boy’s Life Adverts

Boys' Life magazine in the 1950s and 1960s was basically a manual on how to ...
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Vinyl 2 of a Kind: Cheesecake Edition

Vinyl 2 of a Kind: Cheesecake Edition

Back in August, we brought you pairs of albums which looked alike.  It was so ...
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Comin at Ya: The Eighties 3-D Movie Craze (circa 1981 – 1983)

Comin at Ya: The Eighties 3-D Movie Craze (circa 1981 – 1983)

In 2009, 3-D movies roared back to the pop culture forefront with expensive sci-fi epics like ...
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The “Sexist” Gentlemen Prefer Hanes Adverts of the 1970s and 80s

The “Sexist” Gentlemen Prefer Hanes Adverts of the 1970s and 80s

The ad campaign “Gentlemen Prefer Hanes” spanned over a decade, beginning in the early 1970s ...
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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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