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The 5 Most Awesome Rides of the Post-Apocalyptic Future

The 5 Most Awesome Rides of the Post-Apocalyptic Future

  If several decades of post-apocalyptic movies and TV series have taught viewers anything, it’s ...
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17 Unintentionally Naughty Images of Yesteryear

17 Unintentionally Naughty Images of Yesteryear

  Here is a stack of old adverts, comic books, catalog pages, book covers, etc. ...
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Booze Brochures: 1960s Guides to Drinking Like a Boss

Booze Brochures: 1960s Guides to Drinking Like a Boss

Here's a couple magazine inserts by booze peddlers from the 1960s.  The first is perhaps the ...
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The 5 Stages of Being An Aussie Drunk 1863-1868

The 5 Stages of Being An Aussie Drunk 1863-1868

These photographs illustrate drunkenness in five stages, played by a male subject in a studio. Possibly ...
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Matter Eater Lad: Lamest Superhero of All Time

Matter Eater Lad: Lamest Superhero of All Time

I'm so glad DC comics provided us with Lightening Lad's power listed on a placard.... ...
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A 1982 About Fear On Film With John Landis, David Cronenberg, and John Carpenter

A 1982 About Fear On Film With John Landis, David Cronenberg, and John Carpenter

 
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6 Common Sounds of Yesteryear We No Longer Hear

6 Common Sounds of Yesteryear We No Longer Hear

It recently struck me that there are a lot of sounds that were once ubiquitous ...
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Women in Photobooths: 1900-1970

Women in Photobooths: 1900-1970

1900-1910   1920s   1930s   1940s   1950s   1960s   1970s Spotters: Walter Plotnick, The ...
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Galileo Galilei’s Finger: On Display At the Museo di Storia del Scienza in Florence, Italy

Galileo Galilei’s Finger: On Display At the Museo di Storia del Scienza in Florence, Italy

  “Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)’s finger is on display at the Museo di Storia del Scienza ...
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Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back to the Movies: The 5 Best Jaws (1975) Knock-Offs

Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back to the Movies: The 5 Best Jaws (1975) Knock-Offs

    In other posts here, I’ve recall the five best knock-offs of The Exorcist ...
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Behind The Scenes Photos Of Bolaji Badejo Playing Ridley Scott’s Alien In 1979

Behind The Scenes Photos Of Bolaji Badejo Playing Ridley Scott’s Alien In 1979

THE man in the monster suit for Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien in 1979 was 6’10″ Nigerian Bolaji Badejo. ...
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Arsenal Coaches And Players Commincate With Radio Transmitters And Under Arm Receivers

Arsenal Coaches And Players Commincate With Radio Transmitters And Under Arm Receivers

ON August 4 1960, Arsenal trialled a new way for coaching staff to communicate with the ...
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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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