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1966: When Harry Roberts Killed Coppers And A Dalek Looked The Other Way

1966: When Harry Roberts Killed Coppers And A Dalek Looked The Other Way

  ON 12 Dec 1966, Harry Roberts, John Witney and John Duddy were convicted of ...
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1973: Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ Played At 33 RPM Reveals An Unexpected Secret

1973: Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ Played At 33 RPM Reveals An Unexpected Secret

  IN 1973, Dolly Parton released the song Jolene. It would become a smash hit. ...
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1984: New York Subway Commuters Giggle At Nude Walter Mondale On A Penthouse Magazine Cover

1984: New York Subway Commuters Giggle At Nude Walter Mondale On A Penthouse Magazine Cover

FLASHBACK to May 12, 1984: Subway commuters point to a poster sporting a caricature of ...
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1978: Beauty Tips For the Disco Dancer

1978: Beauty Tips For the Disco Dancer

IT'S 1978. All the cool kids are disco dancing. But how to get the look ...
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Mobile Canteens Of World War 2 (1939-1945)

Mobile Canteens Of World War 2 (1939-1945)

THEY say an Amy marches on its stomach. But food isn't all about going on ...
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The Five Most Underrated Slasher Films of the 1980s

The Five Most Underrated Slasher Films of the 1980s

  FOLLOWING the incredible box-office and critical success of John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), the slasher ...
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The Eight-Track Miracle: 8 Reasons It Failed

The Eight-Track Miracle: 8 Reasons It Failed

    WHEN eight-track tapes hit the shelves in the latter part of the Sixties, ...
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Wonderfully Sexist Dating Advice From 1938

Wonderfully Sexist Dating Advice From 1938

IT'S 1938. Your breath is fresh, so you've pulled. And you're on a date. What ...
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Slacks Relapse: A Look At Chick Pants Of The 1970s

Slacks Relapse: A Look At Chick Pants Of The 1970s

  OTHER than a brief Capri pants fad during the early Sixties, women rarely wore ...
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Khat In 1985: The North Yemen Artisan Chews Khat Surrounded By His Daggers And Swords

Khat In 1985: The North Yemen Artisan Chews Khat Surrounded By His Daggers And Swords

FLASHBACK to January 11, 1985: The Khat Man: His cheek stuffed with khat, an artisan ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

45 Chart Busting Cover Girls Of Top Hits Albums

  IN DECADES PAST, records store shelves were filled with tons of compilation records featuring ...
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1978: Bunny Girl Dolly Parton Seduces The Easter Bunny

1978: Bunny Girl Dolly Parton Seduces The Easter Bunny

Dolly Parton and Joshua, the Easter Bunny, appear in Playboy magazine, October 1978.       ...
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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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