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Polyester Prayers: Gospel Family Album Covers of the Seventies

Polyester Prayers: Gospel Family Album Covers of the Seventies

Each album cover is one is a tiny miracle of condensed tackiness and unease. Hallelujah! ...
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George Davis Is Innocent: The 1970s Campaign That Proved The Police And State Were Not OK

George Davis Is Innocent: The 1970s Campaign That Proved The Police And State Were Not OK

On August 19, 1975, the third England v Australia Test at Headingley was abandoned following ...
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1936: Claud Butler Cycling Tweed Suits For Whitsun

1936: Claud Butler Cycling Tweed Suits For Whitsun

ANYBODY else think cycling gear has gone downhill since this Claud Butler Whitsun “rigout” was ...
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The Evinrude Fishing Saucer Concept Boat Of 1957

The Evinrude Fishing Saucer Concept Boat Of 1957

THE Evinrude Fishing Saucer concept boat designed by Brooks Stevens and made for the 1957 ...
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I Was G-Man Jerry Cotton: When Hedy Lamarr Performed The First On-Screen Orgasm

I Was G-Man Jerry Cotton: When Hedy Lamarr Performed The First On-Screen Orgasm

  'What does the music for a 1965 West German movie about a New York ...
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I Was G-Man Jerry Cotton: When Hedy Lamarr Performed The First On-Screen Orgasm And Jane Powell Grew Up

I Was G-Man Jerry Cotton: When Hedy Lamarr Performed The First On-Screen Orgasm And Jane Powell Grew Up

SO. 'What does the music for a 1965 West German movie about a New York ...
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Jimi Hendrix As A Baby With His Parents In The Early 1940s

Jimi Hendrix As A Baby With His Parents In The Early 1940s

IN 1941,  Jimi Hendrix was born. Named Johnny Allen Hendrix, he was son to James Allen Ross ...
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Ban the Bomb Movement Walks From Aldermaston To London And More: 1952-1963

Ban the Bomb Movement Walks From Aldermaston To London And More: 1952-1963

The Ban the Bomb Movement in London: 1952-1963: The Ban The Bomb movement grew after ...
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Paleotechnology: A Curious Glimpse Into An 80s Computer Book

Paleotechnology: A Curious Glimpse Into An 80s Computer Book

  THERE"S always a good time to be had touring through old computer books, especially ...
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1955: Ruth Ellis Shoots Her Lover David Blakely Outside the Magdala Pub in Hampstead

1955: Ruth Ellis Shoots Her Lover David Blakely Outside the Magdala Pub in Hampstead

ON this day in 1955 Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely outside the Magdala ...
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Watch Jean-Pierre Léaud’s Fantastic Audition for The 400 Blows In 1958

Watch Jean-Pierre Léaud’s Fantastic Audition for The 400 Blows In 1958

FRENCH cinema's intense The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups - the French title comes from ...
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Pope Leo XIII And A Cup of Bovril: ‘The Two Infallible Powers’ c.1900

Pope Leo XIII And A Cup of Bovril: ‘The Two Infallible Powers’ c.1900

HERE'S an unusual advert for a nice cup of Bovril, as drunk by Pope Leo XIII. ...
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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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