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Your Official Guide To 1970s CB Slang

Your Official Guide To 1970s CB Slang

  THE INTERNET has created its own slang, saturated with efficient abbreviations and a constantly evolving ...
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It’s A Bird! It’s A Dame! It’s Your Illustrated Guide To Supergirl!

It’s A Bird! It’s A Dame! It’s Your Illustrated Guide To Supergirl!

  WITH so many Marvel and DC movies coming out, it may be time to brush up ...
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In 1985 The Press Association Presented The Future of Journalism

In 1985 The Press Association Presented The Future of Journalism

In 1985,  the Press Association presented the future of journalism. The pencil and paper remain ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

Mods, Rockers, Teds, Irish, Skinheads, Pikeys, Blacks And Jews: The People Banned From Anywhere Decent People Gather

FIFTY years ago, mods and rockers enjoyed the bank holiday weekend by fighting pitched battles at ...
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QPR Fans Outside Loftus Road With Their Tickets For The Match Against Chelsea In 1970

QPR Fans Outside Loftus Road With Their Tickets For The Match Against Chelsea In 1970

QPR V Chelsea on February 15 1970: A group of youths outside Loftus Road, the ...
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The Sputnikburger And Small Dog – 1957

The Sputnikburger And Small Dog – 1957

THIS picture shows an Atlanta, Georgia, restaurant's Sputnikburger, complete with small dog, November 4, 1957. Garnished ...
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Bettie Page In Colour – Magazine Covers And Retro Raunch From The Queen of Pin Ups

Bettie Page In Colour – Magazine Covers And Retro Raunch From The Queen of Pin Ups

BETTIE Page was the greatest pin-up who ever lived. Bettie Page said: “I want to be ...
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Funny Not Found: TV Guide Adverts For Terrible Comedies

Funny Not Found: TV Guide Adverts For Terrible Comedies

IF you ever start to get depressed by the current TV offerings, take a look at ...
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All Broken Up Inside: The Five Most Shocking Character Deaths in Cult-TV History

All Broken Up Inside: The Five Most Shocking Character Deaths in Cult-TV History

    WILLIAM Shakespeare once wrote that “the valiant taste of death but once,” while cowards ...
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The Five Most Underrated Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation

The Five Most Underrated Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation

    IFStar Trek: The Next Generation (1987 – 1994) did not have the words ...
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The Queen Makes The First Subscriber Trunk Dialled Telephone Call In 1958

The Queen Makes The First Subscriber Trunk Dialled Telephone Call In 1958

ON May 5, 1958, Queen Elizabeth II made the first subscriber trunk dialled telephone call from ...
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Babes And Gadgets: Suzi Crandall Models The Gibson Girl In 1948

Babes And Gadgets: Suzi Crandall Models The Gibson Girl In 1948

BABES and gadgets: Film actress Suzi Crandall with a “Gibson Girl,” an emergency wireless apparatus ...
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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 Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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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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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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