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The Beaulieu Palace Jazz Riot And A Homosexual Plot  (1960)

The Beaulieu Palace Jazz Riot And A Homosexual Plot (1960)

ON July 30 1960, "things got out of hand" at the Beaulieu jazz festival. One ...
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Five Pop Culture Memories of the Bigfoot Craze of the 1970s

Five Pop Culture Memories of the Bigfoot Craze of the 1970s

In 2014, the cryptid Bigfoot or “Sasquatch” has made something of a silver screen comeback, ...
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1981: Arsenal And Pele Go Nuts For Ingersoll Electronics

1981: Arsenal And Pele Go Nuts For Ingersoll Electronics

You should see the first photo when Pele was wearing shorts: Brazil legend Pele gets a ...
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Busted: Famous People Arrested For Smoking Marijuana (1949-1980)

Busted: Famous People Arrested For Smoking Marijuana (1949-1980)

Marijuana is the evil weed that will drive you to madness. Well, so they say. ...
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Starlets’ End: The Rise and Fall of 5 Actresses of the 1940s -60s

Starlets’ End: The Rise and Fall of 5 Actresses of the 1940s -60s

Something snaps when an actress loses her looks and her career falters.  It doesn’t happen ...
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I Am A Human Cannonball: A Brief History Of Circus Bullets

I Am A Human Cannonball: A Brief History Of Circus Bullets

"You've got four seconds between when that cannon fires and when you're going to land, and a lot has to happen in that four seconds, you know" ...
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Texas 1970: A Warning To Pot Users

Texas 1970: A Warning To Pot Users

FLASHBAK to May 25 1970:     This warning sign states the penalties for bringing ...
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1971: The Times Features Vivien Neves, The First Nude To Appear In A British Newspaper

1971: The Times Features Vivien Neves, The First Nude To Appear In A British Newspaper

“A whole page? Wheeee! Imagine all those men in bowler hats grumbling ‘What’s this country coming to?’" ...
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Tokyo, Japan 1917-1950: Rare Images Of Love, Loathing And Life

Tokyo, Japan 1917-1950: Rare Images Of Love, Loathing And Life

               
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Sophie Tucker: Last Of The Red Hot Mamas (January 13, 1887 – February 9, 1966)

Sophie Tucker: Last Of The Red Hot Mamas (January 13, 1887 – February 9, 1966)

  Sophie Tucker.com: Born Sonya Kalish to a Jewish family en route to a new ...
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Girlie Magazine Parade (Part 1): From Adam to Eve

Girlie Magazine Parade (Part 1): From Adam to Eve

  How many adult magazines (AKA girlie mags, skin rags) were there in the 1950s ...
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Photos Of Palestine And Israel 1930-1949

Photos Of Palestine And Israel 1930-1949

    Wikipedia: On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the adoption ...
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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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