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Nine Wonderful Coby Whitmore Cosmopolitan Covers from the 40s and 50s

Nine Wonderful Coby Whitmore Cosmopolitan Covers from the 40s and 50s

Maxwell Coburn (Coby) Whitmore was one of the great American illustrators in the mid-20th century - perhaps the golden age of illustration. ...
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1970s Halloween Insanity at its Finest: The Paul Lynde Special

1970s Halloween Insanity at its Finest: The Paul Lynde Special

You can watch the special in its entirety; however, I highly recommend you read this ...
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The Ford Cortina – Twenty Years of Advertising Britain’s ‘Favourite’ Car

The Ford Cortina – Twenty Years of Advertising Britain’s ‘Favourite’ Car

  The secret project name was 'Archbishop'. It was then decided to call it the ...
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Eighteen Brilliant Pulp Novel Cover Illustrations by Robert McGinnis

Eighteen Brilliant Pulp Novel Cover Illustrations by Robert McGinnis

“There's nothing more interesting than painting women, it's the greatest subject that can be.” ...
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Pictures of Diana Rigg and Oliver Reed from the 1969 Film ‘The Assassination Bureau’

Pictures of Diana Rigg and Oliver Reed from the 1969 Film ‘The Assassination Bureau’

  When Jack London, the socialist American author and journalist, died, still a relatively young ...
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Give a Hoot – Don’t Pollute! 5 Anti-Litterbug Landmarks of the 1970s

Give a Hoot – Don’t Pollute! 5 Anti-Litterbug Landmarks of the 1970s

One of the most commented on moments in Mad Men is the Draper family picnic ...
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Nuclear Annihilation Readiness: A 1968 Handbook

Nuclear Annihilation Readiness: A 1968 Handbook

The Cold War scare of nuclear annihilation probably was at its zenith during the 1950s ...
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Freddy Slays ‘Em: The 5 Greatest Death Scenes in the Nightmare on Elm Street Film Series

Freddy Slays ‘Em: The 5 Greatest Death Scenes in the Nightmare on Elm Street Film Series

    Beginning in 1984, the Nightmare on Elm Street films ruled the box office, ...
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10 Awful Disco Cover Versions Which Will Ruin Songs You Love

10 Awful Disco Cover Versions Which Will Ruin Songs You Love

What started as an important urban underground movement in the mid-70s quickly became a laughable ...
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Terror Unleashed! Horror Comics of the 1970s

Terror Unleashed! Horror Comics of the 1970s

  The 1950s was a Golden Age for horror comics with EC publications (Tales from ...
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Terror on the Small Screen: Vintage TV Horror Adverts

Terror on the Small Screen: Vintage TV Horror Adverts

I attribute my fondness for the horror genre to the prevalence of it on the ...
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1967 Drugs: A Far Out Life Science Library Tome For Squares

1967 Drugs: A Far Out Life Science Library Tome For Squares

These fabulous illustrations are from the 1967 book DRUGS, a volume in the 26-strong Life ...
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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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